iphone, your phone

'It's exactly as you'd get in an Apple store,' the young man said conspiratorially. 'They retail at six hundred euro. It's yours for two hundred.'

'It's three fifty in the shop,' a lank-haired youth replied.

'But that's with a contract. Eighteen months. They sell you the phone cheap to lock you in.'

'What's the catch?'

'There isn't one. It's brand new. Never used.'

'It just fell out the back of a van?'

The seller shrugged, casting an anxious glance round the bar.

'I'll give you one fifty.'

'One seventy.'

'And it definitely works?'

'Lifetime warranty. Your life, not its, capiche?'


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