Wang Ye watched TV and laughed. It seemed like this life would be the same as his last one, with Apple phones still creating a frenzy of panic buying worldwide.
Especially the earlier generations of Apple phones, every year when a new model was released, they would trigger a shopping craze in almost every country.
Everyone wanted to get their hands on the new phone as soon as possible, and of course, there were plenty of scalpers.
Some people didn't want to queue up on site to hog the phones and yet wanted to get them sooner, so they had no choice but to buy from scalpers at a higher price.
Wang Ye still remembered that his colleague at the company had bought a phone from scalpers for an extra thousand or two.
There were also widely circulated news stories about "selling kidneys for phones"...