Ask HN: Where can I buy 10-100 iPhone 3GS

2 pointsjoelreymont4 comments

I'm located in the Canary Islands, Spain. Any suggestions on where I can buy 10-100 iPhone 3GS and how much it will cost me? My intention is to buy 10 devices a month initially and I want to be able to use them with any carrier, no contract.

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That's rather un-economical at $1,000 per device, even accounting for the USD/EUR exchange rate. The price, shipping and customs fees are gonna kill me.

Are you going to offer some kind of rental service? That would be an interesting business model...

Yes, I would like to rent iPhones in my local market, pre-loaded with certain applications.

Problem is, I may not be able to do this economically and may have to go with Android instead. I suspect it will be far easier to buy hundreds of HTC Heros directly from HTC than to buy iPhones from Apple or distributors.

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