On September 16, the iPhone 14 series models were officially launched. As before, the "scalpers" were waiting in front of the door with their hands, buying iPhones at an increase in price, and selling them doubled.

will only be popular for three days...

iPhone 14 with a price increase, and it will be posted with a loss of 100 yuan. The scalper who resells Apple phones will be crying!

iPhone 14 broke the issue, and scalpers paid 100 yuan to sell

In the morning, the iPhone 14 Pro series price increase and premium are close to 2,000 yuan, while the Pro Max is price increase and more than 2,000 yuan. The dark purple iPhone 14 Pro Max is the most popular, among which the 512G version will be priced at 2,800 yuan.

However, the situation of crazy grabbing on the first day did not last long, and the market fell sharply in the afternoon.

The recycling price of the iPhone 14 Pro in a stall in Hunan shows that the premium of about 900 yuan at 11:00 on the 16th is about 700 yuan, and the premium is 18 minutes later. After two hours, the premium is only 300 yuan. At 15:39, the stall attempted to acquire 5 purple 256G memory iPhone 14 Pro, with a premium of only 400 yuan.

iPhone14 even fell below the issue price . The most exaggerated one is iPhone14 512G, which is 739 yuan lower than the official starting price.

On September 17, even the price of iPhone 14pro dropped rapidly.

Some netizens broke the news that they had grabbed 2 iPhone 14 Pro Maxes and sold them to scalpers at 1,600 in the morning. The next afternoon, the official website price increased by 100 and bought it from the scalpers. Rounding it is equivalent to making a pure profit of 3,000 yuan.

At the West Lake Apple Store in Hangzhou, a scalper complained that the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which he increased by 1,800 yuan on the 16th, was sold at only 600 yuan on the 17th. He broke up six or seven mobile phones, but did not fill in the pit. I sold six or seven units, but one unit lost more than the 16th.

has a scalper, , the Chinese version of iPhone 14, lost 100 yuan and posted it. There were even scalpers asking, "Do you want to be 200 cheaper at 14?"

"The iPhone is not selling well now. In the past few years, a mobile phone made five or six thousand yuan. Now if you dare to stay overnight, you will be waiting to lose money."

A technology blogger broke the news that the scalper in the landmark Guangzhou said on his circle of friends that the Apple phones bought from the price increase could not be sold at all, and he had to set up street stalls on the roadside to sell them at a loss.

There are also big Vs saying that Huaqiangbei’s scalpers were collectively defeated, and Apple was paid 100 yuan after the price increase was 14 yuan, and no one wanted the loss.

"The best understanding of Apple analyst" said that the positioning of non-Pro models failed

iPhone 14 was cold. The market believes that the main reason is that the iPhone 14 has almost no changes compared to iPhone 13 , only the running memory has increased by 2GB, and CPU has 1 extra core. The appearance, battery and camera are all the same as the iPhone 13, and the price is still starting from 5,999 yuan. The slight upgrade of memory and processor is difficult to meet the daily usage experience of consumers.

During the previous pre-sale period, , Tianfeng International analyst , known as "the best understanding of Apple analysts", said that the pre-order results of iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus are "bad", indicating that Apple's positioning of these two new standard models may have failed.

Currently these two products account for about 45% of the entire series shipments. If demand does not change after the sale, Apple may lower the shipments of these two models in November and after within weeks.

For the other two models, the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, their pre-order results are "neutral" and "good" compared to the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max.

But the pre-sale results do not mean that Apple will immediately increase the orders for Pro models. Apple will make a decision based on how long the strong demand for Pro models can last during the recession. According to current pre-sale results, strong demand for the iPhone 14 Pro model may continue until at least November.

For the highly anticipated Chinese regional market, Guo Mingchi pointed out that the iPhone 14 offline pre-order survey shows that the iPhone 14 Pro series in China accounts for about 85% of the order allocation, which is very popular. The iPhone 14 Plus, which was considered to be the hottest before its release, only allocated about 5% of the orders, accounting for the least proportion of the four models in the series.

According to this survey, Apple's product differentiation strategy this year is relatively successful. The A16, Lingdong Island, 48-megapixel main cameras, etc., which are exclusive to the iPhone 14 Pro series, are deeply loved by consumers, and this undoubtedly drives Apple's performance to improve.

Wall Street ’s biggest short target: Apple

Another thing worth mentioning is that Apple has become the “No. 1 short target on Wall Street”

According to data released by financial analysis company S3 Partners on September 14 local time, as of September 13, Apple’s short position was US$18.4 billion, exceeding Tesla ’s short position 17.4 billion, regaining the throne of “No. 1 short target on Wall Street” after 864 days.

Feder rate hike expectation to keep increasing, Wall Street bears are looking at U.S. stock Large technology stock . data shows that the top five short targets on Wall Street are Apple, Tesla, Microsoft , Amazon and VISA, and Google parent company Alphabet followed closely.

For Wall's number of short targets to switch from Tesla to Apple, Ihor Dusaniwsky, director of forecasting and analysis at S3 Partners, wrote in a research report that although investors' interest in shorting Apple has increased overall this year, the change in largely reflects that short sellers have cut their exposure to Tesla and cannot accurately reflect the surge in shorting Apple's strength.

"Since the beginning of this year, Apple's short exposure has increased. (There are two possibilities,) is either investors expect the stock to perform poorly in the future, or investors short the stock to hedge the technology company's stock portfolio held by ."

Ihor Dusaniwsky explained that the number of shorting Apple stocks has indeed increased in the past three months, but the more important factor in may be the rise in Apple's stock price ; although Tesla's stock price has also been strong in the past three months, some short positions against Tesla have rebounded in the past 30 days, making the increase in short positions not as much as the stock price increase.

S3 Partners data also shows that since 2020, the number of stocks shorting Tesla has generally shown a downward trend, while the number of stocks shorting Apple has overall fluctuated and has little change. Part of the content of

is integrated from Qianjiang Evening News, New Yellow River Client, China Fund News, etc.

⭐Star Wall Street News , good content is not missed⭐

This article does not constitute personal investment advice, nor does it take into account the special investment goals, financial situation or needs of individual users. Users should consider whether any opinions, opinions or conclusions in this article meet their specific circumstances. The market is risky, so you need to be cautious when investing. Please make independent judgments and decisions.

Have you changed to a new phone?