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IPhone 6+ Reaches Belize At Record Prices
posted (September 26, 2014)
If you've been keeping with the latest international tech news, you may know that Apple's new flagship phones, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were launched last week Friday in the US.

Eager iPhone fans waited outside the retail stores all over the country which ended up selling over 10 million devices in the first week.

Since then it's gotten very scarce - rumours say China is buying them all up. That has driven up prices since the new units are on back order. Locally that means an upgrade to the iPhone 6 is not going to be simple or cheap. You'll have to pay a premium price. It's standard for all new gadget launches where local vendors have to pay persons in the launch countries to wait in line for the device when it drops. The bigger the middle-man's fee is, and the higher cost of getting the device here is, the more you, the end user, have to pay.

Still this phone vendor says that even with all that high price mark-up, Belizean customers still come in. Today, we spoke with one vendor who explained what his company has had to do to make it available to you:

The iPhone 6plus sells local for more than three thousand dollars - but prices are expected to taper off once international demand eases up.

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