It didn't take long after Apple's new iPhone X arrived in the company's stores Friday morning for scalpers to get to work.
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Scalpers are already reselling the iPhone X outside of Apple Stores (AAPL)
The iPhone X arrived in stores Friday morning, and resellers have already bought — and are selling — tens of thousands of dollars worth of phones.
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Soon after the throngs of people lining up at stores around the world started making their way into the outlets and buying the new device, scalpers among their number turned around and started making some quick money off the hotly anticipated phone.
Check out these images of scalpers at work in Hong Kong, China:
This crowd of people is checking the street price of resale iPhone X's.
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Here, a woman is reselling a small stack of iPhone Xs.
It looks like most of the deals are done with just a calculator and cash.
Here someone is using a phone to make a quick cost calculation.
These Apple bags appear to be full of iPhone Xs.
Look at those stacks of cash and phones!
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There are at least 25 iPhones here — about $25,000 worth.
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