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A reseller offering iPhone X's on a street in Hong Kong just after the phone went on sale in a nearby Apple store on Friday.
Soon after the throngs of people lining up at stores around the world started making their way into the outlets and buying the new device, scalpers among their number turned around and started making some quick money off the hotly anticipated phone.
Check out these images of scalpers at work in Hong Kong, China: