Yesterday the iPhone became officially available at 6pm EST. Crowds started to form at Apple stores at the wee hours of Friday morning anticipating the phone, even people like Philadelphia Mayor John Street camped out for one.

This device is thought to be the next big leap in technology, thus driving forward the rest of the already competitive cell phone market. What is now interesting is to see how many people are going to try to profit off them. According to reports, only 3 million phones would be available for the launch, clearly there has been more of a demand for them than that.

Sure enough, a quick search on everyone’s favorite auction site shows someone trying to get $10,000 for an iPhone. Further searching reveals more then 7,000 iPhones up for auction!

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