Apple’s iPhone 14 went on sale in the mainland on the 16th of this month, and it was reported that the sales were lower than expected. Some netizens even claimed that they were successful in “anti-swindling” scalpers. After selling two iPhone 14 Pro Max at an additional price of 3,200 yuan (RMB, the same below), they bought them back at the “official price + 200 yuan” the next day, earning a net profit of 3,000 yuan and a new machine. . Ren Zeping, a well-known mainland economist who has been criticizing Apple for several days and former chief economist of China Evergrande (3333), pointed out yesterday that “the iPhone 14 Waterloo may be a sign of the prosperity and decline of Apple’s empire”, because users no longer pay “IQ”. Tax”.
According to Sandalwood e-commerce market monitoring data, the 7-day pre-sales of the iPhone 14 series on Tmall platform increased by 7% compared with the iPhone 13 series, of which the Pro series increased by 56%. Compared with the previous year, it decreased by 6%, among which the standard series decreased by 71%, and the Pro series increased by 38%. Edison Lee, a broker at Jefferies, a brokerage, pointed out that the iPhone 14 sold 987,000 units in the first three days of its launch in the mainland, which was 10.5% lower than that of the iPhone 13 in the same period.
Mainland media have also reported that iPhone scalpers, who used to earn 300,000 yuan in two months, have lost a lot this year. Among them, a scalper stall in Hunan, taking the recycling price of iPhone 14 Pro 256GB as an example, went on sale at 11:00 a.m. , the premium is still regarding 900 yuan, which drops to 700 yuan following 18 minutes, and only 300 yuan following two hours. What is even more exaggerated is that some scalpers sold the iPhone 14 512GB at a super-loss price lower than the regular price of 739 yuan.
The report quoted industry analysts that iPhone 14 sales were not as good as expected, or it was related to Apple’s large number of early shipments. The manager of an Apple store in Beijing said frankly that a large number of pre-ordered welcome machines did “arrive early on the 17th” ahead of schedule. Some netizens also said that they originally expected to receive the goods from the 22nd to the 27th of this month, “I didn’t expect to receive them early on the 17th”, and went to the physical store to buy the goods. The report also pointed out that the lack of obvious product upgrades and the unsatisfactory performance of the “Dynamic Island” also reduced the enthusiasm of fruit fans.
“Apple’s over-consumption of fruit powder’s love for Steve Jobs”
Ren Zeping once posted on Weibo last Tuesday, criticizing Apple’s lack of innovation and enterprising spirit since the death of its founder, Steve Jobs, and only “eats the old.” As of yesterday, Ren Zeping wrote once more, blasting “Apple has become an increasingly soulless and innovative company, and the rest is more regarding piling up hardware, pseudo-innovation, price discrimination, suppressing competitors, monopoly, arrogance, and excessive consumption of fruit fans. Our love for Steve Jobs.” Ren Zeping believes that the sales of the iPhone 14 reflect that “the emperor’s new clothes have been exposed by the vast number of consumers, and the price discrimination once morest domestic consumers has also been exposed, and even the trick of starvation marketing can’t go on. The worst-selling model in Apple’s history, and the scalpers involved have lost a lot of money. It seems that the IQ tax can’t be collected anymore.”
Originally published on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/China/Online rumors that scalpers fry iphone14-Loss and sell-off-Ren Zeping-Users do not pay IQ tax/340466?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
