$100K Get Rich Quick iPhone Scheme Backfires

Here's an idea I've been meaning to pass on to Will Smith; lobby for a name change to iMaxPC. The reasoning is simple, any product preceded with an 'i' becomes instantly fashionable and a must-have item. And the best part about this idea is that if I doof up part of an article, no one will care because, hey, there's an i on the cover! Hype makes for a wonderful sales tool, capable of selling 525,000 iPhones in 3 days amid mixed reviews (greatest phone ever or too many missing features?), reports of activation woes, and incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Vista and XP.

But I digress, I didn't rush out and buy an iPhone, I don't plan on picking up an iPhone, and I'm not going to analyze what's being said about the iPhone (that would be redundant). Instead, I want to chat about this EBay culture we live in, where every hyped tech toy finds its way out of retail inventories and into inflated auctions. If you want the latest gear, you can either pitch a tent in front of your local electronics store and wait 12+ hours, or head over to EBay and be hornswoggled by those that did.

Now, I have no beef with anyone looking to make a quick buck. Afterall, it's legal, it makes good business sense, and arguably the ones most deserving of scrutiny are the bidders that create a market for these inflated auctions. Yet, I can't help but feel amused, nay, overjoyed at seeing the tables turned on one would-be EBayer who, if she had her way, would have cleaned an AT&T store out of $100,000 worth of iPhones for the sole purpose of hawking them online. Such excessive greed certainly warrants a karmic response, and that's exactly what she got. Rather than tell you what happened, this is one video you really should watch for yourself...