On the night of Thursday to Friday in Russia started official sales iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. The first opportunity to purchase the new products from Apple was received by the inhabitants of the Far East.
In our country since the beginning of October, both models can be pre-order in the salons of mobile operators, through Apple authorised Resellers, including “Euroset”, “Svyaznoy”, “Eldorado”, and in the shops of premium Apple Resellers, including iPort, CStore and re:Store.
For example new York, Tokyo and other capital cities, formed a queue long before the start of sales. So wishing to become first owners of the new smartphone were spotted in front of the store re:Store in the shopping center “European”, in the salons of “Beeline” service offices “the Megaphone” outlets “Coherent”.
The sales start in Moscow was preceded by a show program with live orchestra and performances. Buyers were able to participate in the contest for best selfie. Naturally, lucky first owners of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus no bounds.
Sales of the new products in the capital region kicked off at midnight Moscow time at once in 4 shops “Coherent”. Celebrations in honor of the start of sales iPhone 6s took place in “the Messenger” on the old Arbat street, and 1 in the salon, C-store, located on Tverskaya street, 6, p. 1. In Moscow shops re:Store in the shopping center “atrium” at 19:00 also hosted an entertainment program in honor of the start of sales. There was planned the group’s performance Jukebox Trio and the drawing of a new phone from Apple.
Before the office “Beeline” on Krasnoproletarskaya there was a huge black-and-yellow Apple tree with garlands – a symbol of the release of a new iPhone model. Especially for visitors of night of sales in Moscow the operator held a raffle of five iPhone 6s.
On the night of the sales are from the model and variant of iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, which was introduced in Russia. The first buyer of new in the Central salon of “Beeline” became a TV presenter Ksenia Borodina. According to the representatives of “Svyaznoy”, the majority of buyers in new products from Apple in Russia – about 75% – chose the iPhone 6s. The most popular colors were “Space Gray” and “Rose Gold” and the most popular memory among Russian buyers have become modifications to 64 GB.
In Yekaterinburg, at the beginning of the first hour of the night in the shop “Svyaznoy”, located on the corner of Karl Liebknecht and Lenin, came about 15-20 people who want to buy iPhone 6s. But after a few minutes after the start of sales came the police. “They complained residents of the neighboring house, which is located next to the shop. They were not satisfied that the action takes place at an inopportune time,” said the witnesses of the incident. What ended the visit of the security forces, remains a mystery.
The demand for news has been “about the same” as the previous models – iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, sealed showcases in the fall of 2014, said the representatives of Inventive Retail Group (owner of the network of stores re:Store) Lyudmila Semushina and “Beeline” Anna Imasheva. Before the number of pre-orders for new iPhones from year to year grows – for example, in 2014 we received more than a year earlier.
Other retail chains do not officially share information about the pre-orders for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Unofficially, their employees are recognised: they became much less. Compared to last year’s level, the number of pre-orders decreased more than twice, says the employee of one of the retailers. The reason – crisis: the new iPhone goes on sale at a price nearly twice what it was in 2014 from the previous model, and money from buyers was reduced.
iPhone 6s arrived in the Russian retail at the price 56 990 rubles per model memory 16 GB, 65 990 rubles for modification with 64 GB of memory and 74 990 rubles for a model with 128 GB. iPhone 6s Plus was released at a price of 65 990 rubles for the version with memory 16 GB, 74 990 rubles for a model with 64 GB and 83 990 rubles for modification with 128 GB. iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are available in housings of gold and silver colors in the color space grey and the new color “pink gold”.
