Apple users in China can not get to the Genius Bar

Chinese speculators have set their sights on a new service with limited availability: Genius Bar in popular retail stores Apple.

In Beijing speculators prescribed price of between 10 - 40 yuans ($ 1.63 - $ 6.52) for the recording of "appointment" in the Genius Bar. "Speculators booking of all possible dates in advance for a month," - writes the Beijing Morning News.

This trend is causing problems for some owners of Apple products are in Beijing to use the shop is very difficult due to the inconvenient schedule. Apple customers are facing a difficult choice: to pay for the speculators "ticket for admission to the Genius" or rely on free reservations line at the Genius Bar.

"Take advantage of reservation services at the Apple Store is very difficult," - said one of the customers "is just as difficult as getting a ticket to the Spring Festival." It is about Chunyun period when China was very high traffic which usually starts 15 days before the New Year on the lunar calendar. During this period, speculators are often asked to double or triple the price of train tickets.

One of the reporters Beijing Morning News, not being able to use the Genius Bar reservation date in the usual way, I decided to study the advertisements that offered a place in line at the Apple Store cities. Within a few minutes of speculators, he was given a choice of two local shops and two time slots. After receiving the booking data reporter had the opportunity to take reservations on Apple's website, in order to verify your information and make sure that there will be no problem with the time of purchase slot.

The reporter contacted the manager of Apple Retail and told him about the situation, and he asked whether Apple Stores do anything to stop the actions of speculators. At the time of writing there was no answer. Apple retail points located in areas with large concentrations of people and their 120 million people visited in the last quarter in 2012 - and this is more than the country's population.

In response to an article in the Beijing Morning Times, some observers have noted that the low availability of armor Genius Bar is a certain regularity, in Hong Kong, two of the three Apple stores are not regularly available armor.