Queue up for the ipad 2 (interesting story)

In the next 1 hour or so Apple stores will open (5PM EST) and iPad2 will be in the hands of many. We all know how Apple fans line up for these new gadgets. Long queues and hundreds of people anxiously wait to get their hands on these super cool devices. Well I just read this interesting story on the internet about things that happen in these queues.

This story comes straight from the downtown Manhattan Apple store. When Amanda Foote (20 years old and originally from Florida) left her house on Wednesday afternoon (that is correct people wait 2 days before the launch outside the store) she thought she might end up in the 4th or 5th place in the queue for the iPad2. To her surprise she was the 1st one in the line. When media asked her whether she is excited to be the first person to get an iPad 2, she told them she is not there for the iPad. Amanda was having no intentions to buy the iPad, she was there to sell her number one spot in the queue to somebody who want to pay for that spot (amazing strategy). Amanda told the media that she is having offers till $650 but she will hold the spot till someone offers her $700. She is planning to spend these $700 by visiting her family back in Florida and going to see Lady Gaga in concert (Lady Gaga beats iPad2, I know Lady Gaga got the potential but this is something different).

Amanda spent 2 full nights outside the Apple store and it seems last night it rained as well in NYC. This morning good news came to Amanda when she sold her spot to this gentleman and to the surprise of many the number one spot in queue for the iPad 2 sold for $900. Amanda made around $22 per hour took $900 and left. Good deal to make money.

Now who is crazy enough to spend $900 to be first in line for iPad? Hazem Sayed (born in Kuwait and now lives in NYC) is not crazy but smart enough to buy the spot for $900. Hazem is an iPhone App developer and the owner of the company Zami. Hazem’s company Zami develops iPhone apps and is having around 10 apps available in App store. When media asked Hazem what he will get (apart from the iPad) after spending $900? His simple reply was publicity, publicity for himself and of course for his company. Very smart move.

Amanda got her 900$. Hazem who is now first in line got all the publicity he wants. Media got the new iPad 2 story and hopefully if all goes well iPad 2 will be a bigger hit, bigger than the original iPad (at least this is what Apple and us the Apple investors are expecting).