Chinese scalpers booking up all Genius Bar appointments and selling online

Re:Chinese scalpers booking up all Genius Bar appointments a... by chollida1 on Thursday August 01, 2013 @02:52PM (#6142549)

Stanford teaches an entrepreneurial course. During one of the courses students were given $5 to use to make money.

The group that made the most money did so by getting reservations to restaurants on Friday and Saturday nights and then selling them to groups who didn't have reservations.

I thought it was clever when I first heard about it but this type of thing is old hat by now:)

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Re:Chinese scalpers booking up all Genius Bar appointments a... by ErikHuisman on Thursday August 01, 2013 @03:53PM (#6143028)

And this isn't frowned upon at standford?

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Re:Chinese scalpers booking up all Genius Bar appointments a... by aryastark on Thursday August 01, 2013 @03:20PM (#6142782)

pretty sure Dwight did this (The Office, US version). That's where I first remember hearing it

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Re:Chinese scalpers booking up all Genius Bar appointments a... by thematt on Thursday August 01, 2013 @03:35PM (#6142887)

Interesting, I don't remember that. I do, however, remember him buying up all the unicorn dolls at Christmas and then scalping them to last-minute parents.

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Re:Chinese scalpers booking up all Genius Bar appointments a... by milesokeefe on Thursday August 01, 2013 @06:08PM (#6143912)

Yesm he made reservations at nice restaurants for valentines day six months in advance.

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