E-Bay pulling iphone pre-orders

eBay has finally gotten around to deleting all the iPhone pre-order auctions that have been popping up on the site. With this move, eBay is hoping to avoid some of the problems that came by allowing such auctions last year with the launch of the PS3 and the Wii. When the PS3 and Wii were nearing launch, a number of people put up auctions before they had the consoles in hand, but ended up empty-handed on release day. Thus, all those bidders who paid well over $1000 for one got screwed. Some managed to get refunds, but others were stuck waiting for weeks to get their money back.
So in a pre-emptive move, eBay has instituted policies requiring a photograph of the actual item in question to be included with the auction, as well as the seller ID of the person running the action.
So what happens to those who “won” iPhone pre-order auctions that went through before eBay pulled them? Well, so far eBay has not yet released a statement on how it will handle auctions that already went through, so I guess we can assume that they’ll need to hope the seller actually delivers the iPhone. And if they don’t, they’ll need to go through eBay’s usual fraud complaint policy.Sphere:

Why people would pay more then double the amount for an i-phone is something i cant really come up with a good reason for.but ohh well cant do it anymore so just go to apple buy an iphone contact me to unlock,now thats a great way to get an i-phone!