Muscovites lined up in a huge queue for iPhone X. Video

Because of the huge queues, the police had to restrict traffic in the centre of Moscow.

The start of sales in Russia of new products from Apple – iPhone X – has caused an unprecedented boom in Moscow. On Friday morning for the opening of re:store on Tverskaya street gathered about 500 people.

It is noted that a queue began to form a few days before the event. As noted by the representative of re:Store Lyudmila Semushina, this is the first time.

“We didn’t expect so many people”, – she told the Agency.

Sales began November 3 at 8 am. Two hours before the opening of the store employees started handing out bracelets which you could buy a phone: they were numbers and model names.

Semushina assured that smartphones brought more than people gathered on the street. The most popular, according to her, iPhone space gray 256 GB.

First store let the first 10 people. One buyer from this group, who introduced Dmitri, in turn, had to stand for a week. He bought two smartphones: one for herself and the girls. Dmitry has all versions of iPhone, except for the eighth model, and iPhone X he took because it was the first phone without the home button.

“I bought a phone that everyone wanted to buy. This happened spontaneously. Just heard, and I was curious. The next time, too, will stand in the queue. It’s worth it,” said the fourteenth in the list buyer, Adam, who has spent in the queue for two days.

Note that the minimum cost of iPhone S is 79990 rubles – about $1370.

In turn, the Interfax reports that the police had to restrict traffic on Tverskaya because of the large number of people willing to buy the iPhone X. Also, for security purposes, shop around, there are several police stations.

“In the morning rush hour traffic on Tver towards the centre proved to be very difficult, the tube runs from Tverskaya street, the house 27 to the Belarusian railway station”, – stated in the message.

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