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Customers Pay to Get Out of iPhone Lines

Apple fanboys and girls use private companies and Craigslist to skip hours-long wait for iPhone5.

By Danielle Kurtzleben

September 21, 2012 RSS Feed Print

An Apple employee riles up his coworkers outside the Apple store on Fifth Avenue to celebrate the release of the iPhone 5 in New York.

An Apple employee riles up his coworkers outside the Apple store on Fifth Avenue to celebrate the release of the iPhone 5 in New York.

Danielle Kurtzleben is a business and economics reporter for U.S. News & World Report. Connect with her on Twitter at @titonka or via E-mail at dkurtzleben@usnews.com.

Corrected on 9/21/12: An earlier version of this story misstated where the TaskRabbit promotion was running. It ran in San Francisco and New York City.

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Tags:: Craigslist,; smartphones,; economy,; business,; Apple Inc.

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