That’s what I was thinking. If I can make a couple hundred bucks for sitting in line for 12 hours or so, that’s not a bad profit.
Phone retailers in the Mongkok district said the price premium for the gold iPhone 6 Plus with the most storage had jumped to more than $1,000. "Asian customers love using large-screen phones to watch video and play games," said Lo Lau, an owner of a smartphone store in Mongkok.Jay Lam, a Hong Kong shop manager, left the Apple store in the Causeway Bay neighborhood with a big smile and two gold iPhone 6 Pluses. Mr. Lam said he planned to sell each phone for 20,000 Hong Kong dollars (US$2,600), a handsome profit from the official retail price of HK$8,088.