The release of the new iPhone 4 quickly triggered a surge of demand in Hong Kong and China once again.
Many merchants spot this opportunity and offer a good price to collect new iPhone 4 from Hong Kong. These iPhones will eventually parallel exported to mainland China with an extortionate price (over 50% more than the listed price in US).
Many people in Hong Kong are very pleased to see this as they can earn a small fortune by buying from the official dealers (using all of their available credit cards, say one credit card account entitles for one iPhone 4 quota) and re-selling the iPhone 4 to these merchants