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Raw eggs splattered and streaked the gleaming windows of Beijing’s Apple store Friday, hurled by angry and frustrated shoppers when the launch of the iPhone 4S was canceled due to fears over the size of the crowd.
The incident highlighted the role of Chinese middlemen who buy up wildly popular iPhones or smuggle them from abroad for resale at a big markup.
Hundreds of customers-including migrant workers hired by scalpers in teams of 20 to 30-waited overnight in freezing temperatures outside the Apple store in a shopping mall in Beijing’s east side Sanlitun district.
