Lucky Bags sold in Japanese Apple Store

iphone January 5th, 2009

Fukubukuro, or “Mystery Bag,” is a Asian New Year’s Day practice during which merchants delude stamped bags of different items at a material discount, ofttimes as broad as 50%. Apple participated this year, and digit serendipitous shopper, Justin, blogged his experience.

For the inexact equal of $384US, Justin received

an 8 GB iPod touch
Nike iPod device and armband
Logitech Pure-Fi Anywhere2 utterer set
Cool, re-useable activity (at right)
Commemorative T-shirt
2009 calendar

Quite a haul! Shoppers unsmooth up at midnight on Jan 2nd for a quantity to acquire digit of Apple’s Mystery Bags. I’m intellection that US retailers requirement to take this tradition.

[Via ifoAppleStore]

TUAW Lucky Bags oversubscribed in Asian Apple Store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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