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Email from yet another thwarted iPhone buyer, this one in New York:

At the Soho Apple Store on Sunday, they turned away at least two hundred people who had been waiting in line because they had TWO phones in stock before the store opened. But this showed up as "in stock" on the website.

And yes, I am sending this on my first generation iPhone.

Sorry, I wish I had [taken photos], especially of the starbucks toting d-bag of a store manager pecking away at a Blackberry.

(Photo by ycr)