Update On Delivery Status & Apple's Change In Policy

Ok guys, you cannot imagine what we went through the last days to get the iPhone to you. We won't go into details now. All we can say is that we were extremely lucky to have been able to purchase iPhones in bulk, because Apple has stopped bulk purchases starting from yesterday (see below). They have also taken strong measures to avoid that the iPhone is being sold outside the U.S. (see below).

Where Is My iPhone Now?

The iPhones have landed in Frankfurt 60 minutes ago (Lufthansa). They will be on it's way to India tomorrow.
Those who have already payed will get their unit shipped on Friday, 28. September.

We did everything possible to bring the iPhones to you on time and we are sorry for any delays, we understand that you cannot wait anymore. Still if anyone wishes to cancel his order at this point, it is fine with us, but since we are forced to increase our sales price due to Apple's new sales policy we won't be able to offer you at the old rate ( Rs 27990,—) again.

Apple's New Sales Policy

Yesterday Apple has officially changed it's sales policy for the iPhone. Starting from yesterday a person is allowed to buy only 5 iPhones, once. This means that he will not be able to buy more units after say 1 week (like we did in the past weeks). Also Apple will check the ID to make sure that you are legal U.S. resident. Foreigners are not allowed to buy iPhones anymore (Sorry for all those Russians who lined up next to me in the Apple store).

Apple does not want the iPhone to be sold outside the U.S.. At this point it will be extremely difficult to get more units. We will try but probably we will not be able to bring in such quantities anymore. So yes, we are sitting on a Gold mine right now. And as it is in business if something becomes so rare the sales price naturally increases. We have put a lot of energy into this operation but with the hope to have a continuous supply of iPhones. Again, we will bring more iPhones but in much smaller quantities.

Due to this circumstance the new sales price of the iPhone has increased to Rs 32990,—. That's still way below our competitors who are selling locked versions for higher prices.

UPDATE: Below the link to Apple's sales policy change, it is originally in spanish, so the english translation is not very good, but the contents can be understood:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=es_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.faq-mac.com%2fnoticias%2fnode%2f25873

We personally went to the Apple store on Tuesday to get some more iPhones and they refused to sell us more units, arguing that one person can maximally purchase 5 iPhones once since Apple has now changed it's sales policy. Also they asked us many questions, wether we would be using the iPhone outside the U.S., etc.