Chinese users wanting to buy an iPhone 4 better first place a qualification before venturing to an Apple Store . With the equipment selling out in retail outlets across China , Apple is now requiring all likely customers to first reserve the equipment online , before they can come buy the twist at one of the ship’s company ’s stores .
Customers are restricted to buying only one iPhone 4 per day , and must provide proper recognition that matches with their reservation when come to make the actual purchase , according to Apple ’s China Website .
“ Because the number of reservation is so high , we can only aid you with your leverage when confirming your reserve , ” the company website append .
Apple has yet to provide any figure on iPhone 4 sales in China . But China Unicom , the sole mobile service provider of the gimmick , report selling 100,000 iPhone 4s in the first four days after the twist set in motion on Sept. 25 . China Unicom stop over online mental reservation for the twist after 200,000 users signed up for pre - orders .
Apple has said more iPhone 4s will be useable soon and that customers should go over back with their local store . But the company ’s current reservation system is still forcing some customers to expect .
Each day , Apple is only taking a circumscribed number of reservations , said an Apple sales example . By Friday later cockcrow , those reservations were gone as Apple ’s China website report that all four stores in the country no longer had the iPhone 4 in stock .
This has will some potential emptor frustrated .
“ I ’ve been coming every morning to this Apple store for the last week , and still it has been sold out , ” articulate one customer , who would only give out his last name as Wong . On Friday good afternoon , he visited one Apple fund in Beijing , only to leave behind anger . “ Now today they told me I have to buy online . I ’m 60 years old and I do n’t own a computer , ” he said .
Still , Wong said he was set to buy an iPhone 4 . “ I do n’t need to die before have the good things in biography , ” he added .
customer who had reserved an iPhone 4 at the Apple Store in Beijing ’s Sanlitun Village were forced to first await in contrast before claiming their gadget , with security guard look out . The store has tried to stop scalping , post signs outside warn that action will be have against multitude chivy or hawking good to customers .
