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Any time I see a guy making a very high cost or even just high-profile public proposal (like at concerts, stadiums, on TV, etc.), I tend to think it's a guy who wasn't quite sure she would say yes, and thought he could pressure her into it. What a creepy-ass way to start a lifelong commitment. It makes my skin crawl.
I always wonder how many of the women say yes for the camera to get everyone off their backs and then say no the next day. That's what I would probably do.
Just spoke with a friend of mine and it sounds like you're right. Would be incredibly difficult to procure that many iPhones in China. He thinks the guy would have had to start buying them before they were released in the country, when prices were 10,000+RMB/phone. So this guy will likely lose a substantial amount of money reselling them.
Looks like Apple is trying to cut off the grey market for iPhones in China by releasing them sooner. It was insane a couple years back.
A ton of those phones get shipped from the US to China. Most of the scalpers here are Asian, in my experience. I hope the guy is able to sell those phones.
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Any time I see a guy making a very high cost or even just high-profile public proposal (like at concerts, stadiums, on TV, etc.), I tend to think it's a guy who wasn't quite sure she would say yes, and thought he could pressure her into it. What a creepy-ass way to start a lifelong commitment. It makes my skin crawl.
I always wonder how many of the women say yes for the camera to get everyone off their backs and then say no the next day. That's what I would probably do.
I always think that, too.
I only know of 2 couples that had such a public proposal. Both were specifically tailored toward what the woman would love.
That's the ONLY reason to do it that way.
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I'm not buying this story one bit. This has got to be the third story I've read about China's Singles Day where a man proposes to a woman and get's absolutely humiliated and I swear, I think its been in that same mall each time....
Pretty much I feel that way about any over-the-top-proposal, because the chief motivation is to come up with a grand gesture, a play to the crowd. It's ultimately narcissistic behavior and it's really manipulative.
Why didn't he just buy the empty boxes? Seems a lot cheaper?
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