Apple IPhone 5 Store Lines Include Hundreds Getting Paid to Wait
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Among the thousands of people expected to wait for hours outside of Apple Inc.’s stores today for the new iPhone, at least a couple hundred of them will be paid just to stand there.
In what may be the biggest consumer electronics debut in history, more than 200 people are expected to hold places in line for strangers at stores around New York and the San Francisco bay area for the iPhone 5, Bloomberg.com reported on its Tech Blog. These arrangements were made on the website TaskRabbit Inc., where a user can find workers to do odd jobs such as assembling Ikea furniture or waiting in long lines.