Official sales in China and Japan were the first to open, but vendors everywhere were also on the lookout. They sell brand new iPhone 14 smartphones on the street not far from the stores where all stocks run out pretty fast.

iPhone 14: popular and not very popular

The iPhone 14 Plus was the least popular model of the series, although it did not start selling together with the others. It will only be available from October 7th. Pre-sales, which have been open for a week, have not yielded very good results. They are compared to last year’s situation around the mini model, which failed in sales and is no longer produced.

It looks like Apple’s Plus model will be able to deliver them all in the same day. However, you will have to wait between a few days and 4-5 weeks when ordering iPhone 14, 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max in different countries of the world.

The iPhone 14 Pro Max is the most popular model and the demand for it is called “crazy”. In the main Chinese online stores, it sold out in seconds along with the iPhone 14 Pro, after which the queue quickly lengthened for several months. When ordering, the official website advises that you have to wait until November.

In light of this, information has emerged that Apple has increased the volume of orders for the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max by 20 million more smartphones. MyDrivers writes that Samsung has received an additional 20 million screen orders from Apple for the two older models.

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The biggest markup is currently seen on the iPhone 14 Pro Max with 1 terabyte of flash memory. Reaching out to speculators 600 dollarsand they want $200 more than the suggested price for the 128 gigabyte base version.

Fake

The noise surrounding the new iPhones also did not go unnoticed by the scammers. They picked up orders from vendors in the same China and disappeared with the money.

• On September 9, a seller identifying himself as Kang from Zhengzhou said he ordered 11 iPhone 14 series smartphones and 4 iPhone 13 smartphones for a total of $22,700 on a platform called Yiliangou.
• Surprised that the price here is $250-300 lower than at other stores. However, positive feedback from friends who had shopped here before convinced him that everything was fine.
• However, for the past few days, Kang has been trying to contact the seller for information about the delivery time of the smartphones, but without success. A robot answered calls but was unable to reach.
• As a result, Kang and his friends, who also spent thousands of dollars on affordable smartphones, panicked. They learned that the platform was affiliated with a company in Chongqing and asked local acquaintances to check their office address, but they found it empty.

the site failed

The day before sales began, Apple’s official website in China also crashed. It was showing a 403 Forbidden or Not Found error. There was no comment from Apple, but it was probably due to too many visitors.

Errors were observed in other regions as well, sometimes the site was opened but the content was not loaded.