right, so you'd have to know the store with your victims upfront, know which ones to give these highly expensive implanted iPhones to (or have a lot of units), be able to always bring enough for the specific colors the customers want....
I'm especially amused at all the different iPhone SKUs you'd have to stock your crooked phone salesman with. 4 storage tiers, Pro and Pro Max, and 4 colors. So that's 32 boxed phones, a good-sized duffel bag full, to smuggle into the Apple Store, to keep on-hand but avoid anyone finding them, in anticipation of the victim's visit, just to cover the Pro range. Imagine you spent $75,000 on those phones and about as much on the technicians' time to open them all up, install the implants, and perfectly re-seal them. Your salesman has successfully kept the phones hidden for a month, and the target walks into that store and says "You know, I really like the color the non-pro model has this year."
I'm especially amused at all the different iPhone SKUs you'd have to stock your crooked phone salesman with. 4 storage tiers, Pro and Pro Max, and 4 colors. So that's 32 boxed phones, a good-sized duffel bag full, to smuggle into the Apple Store, to keep on-hand but avoid anyone finding them, in anticipation of the victim's visit, just to cover the Pro range. Imagine you spent $75,000 on those phones and about as much on the technicians' time to open them all up, install the implants, and perfectly re-seal them. Your salesman has successfully kept the phones hidden for a month, and the target walks into that store and says "You know, I really like the color the non-pro model has this year."