Mac Soda

As I have posted many, many, many times before, I have been having some serious issues with iPhone 2.0. It has gotten to the point where I am forced to do a daily restore, of 8 pages of apps, and 16 GB of Music and Videos, which takes 4-5 hours at the least to complete. I finally called Apple, and there are sending me a brand new iPhone 3G to replace it. The way they are completing the transaction is that they are charging my credit card 299 for the phone, and will remove the charge as soon as I send the phone back. I obviously am sending the phone back and keeping the new one: but it got me thinking. Someone a little more mischievous could create a story about their phone, have a new one sent to their house, never return the one they said was broken, and sell it to a friend, or on eBay for 1400 dollars, making a 1,100 dollar profit. Again, this is something I absolutely do not condone and would never do in my life, but could a person with a weaker moral compass do this and get away with it? If Apple’s only response was to charge 299 to the credit card and not remove the charge, you have just successfully placed an online order, with overnight shipping (free), for a product that has worldwide shortages around the country, at the same price as the people who wait overnight in lines pay to get it.

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