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Article: NEW MEANING FOR CALL WAITING SOME PAID UP TO $750 JUST TO LINE UP.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2007
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Byline: PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM
Staff Writer
SANTA CLARITA -- No question Apple Inc. will rake in the cash with the release of its long-awaited iPhone, but a few industrious types, content with their old flip phones, got a piece of the action Friday as paid space-holders in lines that formed hours before the newest must-have gadget made it to store shelves.
Nick Redmond, 21, cut a deal with a member at the golf club where he works to make $300 -- and as much as $750 if his client ran late -- to wait in line outside a Valencia AT&T store.
"I don't even want the phone," said Redmond, who arrived about 9 p.m. Thursday and spent the night ...