2011-11-13

香港ifc蘋果店 iPhone 4S混戰 炒家日賺48萬


iPhone 4S混戰 炒家日賺48萬
經濟日報 – 2011年11月12日星期六


深圳遊客王先生在iPad寫上求iPhone字句,他表示不滿蘋果飢餓式營銷手法。


ifc蘋果旗艦店昨首日開售iPhone 4S,大批炒家與賣家聚集交收,有部分人發生爭拗,場面一度混亂。


Apple iPhone 


【經濟日報專訊】香港ifc蘋果店昨晨7時正式發售iPhone 4S,引發「聯合國炒家」大混戰,有蛇頭在蘋果店外向排隊黨以平均每部6,300元,買走大批16GB版4S,並即時運往內地以高價炒賣;亦有人一日內勁賺約48萬元。


然而,隨着iPhone 4S供應量回穩,炒價隨時大跌。
蘋果經理:網上訂翌日取貨


據蘋果店一名女經理透露,蘋果官網昨日會提供預留服務,更聲言客人今日即可到ifc店取貨,且供貨量穩定;消息一出,一眾炒家昨日全天候監視蘋果「野貓式」銷售情況,但截至昨晚9點仍未有動靜。有炒家擔心一旦大規模供貨,會令回收價下跌兼滯銷。


蘋果昨日以鐵馬圍成約50個「鐵籠」,以號碼分區管理排隊人士,踏正7時開舖,排隊人士依次入店內選購,每人限買5部,不限顏色或容量,店內職員列隊拍手歡迎買家。


首日炒風強勁,有本地薑、南亞裔、非洲及內地排隊黨搶貨,炒家打算運貨到外地高價出售,其中先達商戶「瑪雅科技」負責人阿Ken未有落場排隊,他早前花了1.5萬元聘請本地排隊黨約30人買機,加上在門市以低價6,300元回收多達300部16GB手機,其後再以7,000元轉售,若全部賣出,可賺48萬元。


其間又發生多宗衝突,非洲排隊黨頭目不滿酬金低企圖搶走iPhone 4S離去,亦有排隊黨乘混亂企圖偷電話,需警方介入(見另文——「炒家用家即交易 ifc變市集」)。


回收價6300 每部賺1200


iPhone 4S貨源首日充足,綜合先達普遍行貨一手回收價,16GB約為6,300元、32GB約6,800元、64GB約7,300元。


以官方價5,088元的16GB為例,首日「水位」仍有約1,200元,大多轉售予內地人士,當中以16GB最受歡迎,轉手價為6,500至7,000港元,32GB約為7,280元、64GB約為7,780元。


昨午蘋果店iPhone 4S售罄後,員工隨即於店內展示海報,指官網將提供預留服務,多名駐店經理表示,買家只要登入網頁預留,翌日即可到ifc付款取機。用家如選用one2free、1010或3香港的月費計劃,更即時有貨,以16GB為例,新電話號碼用戶須預繳5,088元,續約者須付1,168元,但不會有回贈。


蘋果於本月4日提供網上預訂,每人限買10部,將於本月底至下月初才收到貨,有炒家擔心,屆時回收價跌至蝕本。


傳部分電訊商 定單已爆滿
先達G.World Mobile負責人劉志剛表示,內地對iPhone4S需求甚高,認為蘋果官網再次開賣,未必會降低炒價。


CSL發言人表示,iPhone 4S銷情相當理想,正不斷補充貨源,訂購市民最快要等一星期;數碼通發言人則指,公司採用一條龍網上預購服務,有貨會立即以電郵或SMS通知客戶,輪候時間要視乎貨源而定。
有蘋果迷昨日到3香港計劃上台買iPhone 4S,但職員指定單已爆滿,相信最快要到下周二、三才有貨;3香港發言人未有回應,只表示已預訂的客人很快會取到貨。

家常便飯﹕澳洲引入有機寶石魚 年尾有得食喇!


家常便飯﹕有機寶石魚 年尾有得食喇!
明報 
11/13/2011


【明報專訊】今期蒲點﹕元朗
元朗是一個我倆口子最愛去的郊遊熱點之一。
尤其是現在這不冷不熱,
在街上走來走去也不太辛苦的季節。
况且,有了西鐵還實在方便得很,
真是話咁快就到!
周末的元朗有很多我們這樣的「閒人」,非常墟冚。
到達元朗西鐵站,再轉乘輕鐵一個站,
便抵達位於當地人稱為「大街」的康樂路站,
可以下車開始「自由行」。


http://ramsss.com/hk


尋找馳名楊氏魚
本港新界的西北部是很多本地食材的主要生產地之一,元朗有豬場、雞場和魚場,故很多本地食材都可以在這裏的街市找到。


「大街」將元朗的市集分為兩邊,當地人說,靠近恆香餅店的一邊(右邊)有較多外來人,而對面街(左邊)就比較多當地人去。兩邊都有一個市政街市,右邊的「同益街市」,位於阜財街,非常熱鬧。左邊的街市則在「開心廣場」的附近,叫「大橋街市」,據說,這個街市比較多本地人光顧,也可以找到元朗著名的「楊氏」魚系列的專門店「良品漁夫」,是該品牌全港暫時唯一的專賣店。


魚塘探秘!
楊氏在新界養魚已經第三代了,現在的掌舵人是楊氏兄弟——楊瑞良和弟弟Stephen。楊氏由1950年代爺爺經營的小規模魚塘,發展至今日成為香港最大,經過香港魚塘養殖業的興衰,一切得來不易!Stephen那天就憶述,他們兩兄弟起初如何自己駕車送魚,每天就那麼30條,令人何其沮喪。現在當然大大不同了,每日沒有一千都有幾百喇!


香港人喜歡吃魚,世界知名,「世界自然基金會」今年一月發表有關港人飲食習慣對環境影響報告指出,香港人吃魚之多,在亞洲排第三,每人每年消耗62公斤。一如所有其他食材,大部分魚都是進口的(根據以上的報告,是從150個國家入口!),而從特區政府的2011年1月有關香港漁農業的資料所得,本地魚塘只能供應港人淡水魚消耗量的百分之四。其中最具規模的養殖戶,便是楊氏。


前幾天,我特別走到楊氏的魚場看看。楊氏現時的魚塘總面積有60公頃,共有100個魚塘,分佈在三個地方,但主要的都在米埔,鄰近是米埔自然保護區(香港現時的魚塘總面積大約1000公頃,一些還是空置的。)。所養的魚,主要品種有烏頭、寶石魚和龍躉。


有機魚品種優質
楊氏以出產烏頭最出名,近年才積極打造有機品牌的寶石魚。不提不知,楊氏的有機魚養殖場也在這裏——是的,今年12月底,香港人終於可以品嘗到本地生產的有機魚。為免消費者混淆,他們往後出品的寶石魚只有有機的,龍躉暫時只有常規養殖的,烏頭就只有常規養殖的。


寶石魚是2002漁護處從澳洲引入的優質魚,它的魚身肉厚,含豐富多元不飽和脂肪酸(Omega-3),蒸、煎、炒都可以。如飼料的質素高,出產的寶石魚不會有泥味,中西餐均適合。因為這些優點,故楊氏選擇寶石魚作為他們的有機魚的主要品種。寶石魚的換肉率低 (增重一公斤需要的飼料比其他魚少),生長速度快,養7個多月便可食用(烏頭要一年多!)。


不惜工本保持質素
Stephen是我在「良食關注組」第一次舉辦的「本地食材宴」時認識的,當時楊氏給我們贊助著名的「楊氏烏頭」。用烏頭作為飲宴用魚,是一個很不尋常的選擇,那次廚房大師傅用豬網油包着魚來蒸,食客都大讚(著名食家蔡瀾也是席上嘉賓),淡水魚竟然可以那麼好吃,完全沒有「泥味」之餘,還可以那麼鮮味!


Stephen解說,要魚的質素高,不外乎兩個因素﹕飼料和水質。「楊氏魚場」其中一個有別於其他魚塘之處,是他們不是用純淡水,而是用鹹淡水。為了鹹水供應穩定,他們近年在魚場中打了20多口深達30米的井。至於淡水,就得看天了,雨量不夠,魚的質素便會下降。


還有,楊氏的魚場,用的都是優質的粒料,不會用雜糧(例如過期的麵包)。每日堅守「四定」餵魚,即定質、定量、定時、定處。但有一點頗困擾的是,東南亞國家都沒有質素穩定的有機魚糧(台灣、日本都沒有有機標準),故有機魚糧都要從歐洲老遠船運到港,成本較高。


塘養龍躉 好味勝野生
但最令人驚歎的,還是他們的龍躉。很多人都不知原來龍躉是可以塘養的。我們香港人吃魚吃到所有環保人士都驚,以現在的消耗量,很多深海大魚都快給我們吃掉。現在有塘養的大魚,可幫助縮少香港人的生態足迹一點點吧!楊氏的龍躉賣往市場時,每條約15斤。


Stephen說,因為這些魚的糧食營養豐富,肉味更勝捕撈的。唯一問題是因為太容易有得食,運動量是比野生的少,肉質一般是給比下去。為了這個問題,在賣出市場之前兩天,他們會將魚放進一個「中轉池」,用水冲,讓魚游個痛快。兩天的時間,魚便會瘦一至兩斤,肉也會變得彈牙。他說這些魚現時的市場價是160元一斤,要刻意讓魚變瘦才賣,很多行家都不願意這樣做。


哪兒有得買?


http://www.yeungs-mp.com


現時要買楊氏的魚,有三個方法。一是去以他們的魚作材料的食肆,二是找零售商,三還可以到他們在元朗的專門店,地址都可以從楊氏的網站中找到。Stephen說,未來是希望增加4間「良品漁夫」,其中一間在灣仔,一間在九龍城……熱切期待!


很多客人都問過他們一個問題,就是為什麼在任何地方買楊氏的魚都只有冰鮮,而不會找到活生生、游來游去的?這一點Stephen也給我解釋一番,而作為一個讀生化學的博士,我亦頗贊同他的說法﹕第一,養魚用的水,質素很難保持,養得不好而要落藥的話就唔好喇!另外,所有動物在壓力大的環境下,身體都會釋出不同的生化物質,如酶、荷爾蒙等,均會對肉質和味道有負面的影響,這點是非常重要的。給養在一個小小的魚缸內,給熙來攘往的人評頭品足,當然壓力大吧!


所以他們都認為在魚狀態最好的時候,將它們冰鮮是保存肉質的最好方法。


香港仔置富街市新和富鮮魚
香港仔石排灣街市「孖仔媽鮮魚」
田灣嘉禾街「圖強鮮魚」
鴨脷洲海怡半島東翼街市「歡樂海鮮」
西環石塘咀市政街市「永利鮮魚」
紅磡市政街市「發記魚枱」
將軍澳寶林邨街市「燊成發鮮魚」
沙田大圍街市「年利鮮魚」
馬鞍山恆安邨街市「沛記鮮魚」
粉嶺聯聯和墟街市「亞黃鮮魚」


文、圖﹕鄺易行
編輯 陳嘉文

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2011-11-09

收電器棄置費環保署將市民當賊


收電器棄置費環保署將市民當賊
2011年11月09日(三)
The Sun


【本報訊】環境保護署昨建議日後在零售層面向購買新電器的消費者收取費用,小型家電如細尺寸電視機收費一百元,大至雪櫃及洗衣機等將徵收二百五十元,但未有詳細交代收費安排。


http://easss.com/electronics


消費者委員會及環保團體表明反對以膠袋稅形式徵費,擔心等同由消費者全盤接收,要求政府盡快交代徵費詳情。


四電一腦徵棄置費


環保署昨向環境諮詢委員會提交文件,擬斥資四億元興建大型處理廠,專門處理廢、舊電子產品回收工序,預料每年可處理三萬噸電子廢物,相當於本港全年產生的四成電子廢物量,每年營運費高達二點二億元。


為補貼處理廠的營運開支,該署建議在「四電一腦」徵收棄置電器費用,即電視機、洗衣機、雪櫃、冷氣及電腦產品。文件指,因大部分受訪者擔心在棄置電器時須繳費,或會出現非法棄置電器現象,故傾向在零售層面徵費,並強制零售商提供免費回收。文件建議,透過發牌規管廢電器及電子回收商,確保處理符合環保原則,而進出口廢、舊電子產品(不論是否含有害物質)亦須受許可證管制。


對於政府沒有交代徵費安排,消費者委員會總幹事劉燕卿感到愕然,她稱消委會立場清晰,費用須由生產商及消費者分攤,並須將稅收投放於處理電子廢物及定期檢討。


香港電子業商會可持續發展委員會主席盧偉國支持徵費,但不贊成零售層面收費及不認同文件所指徵費會增加非法棄置,「呢個係教育問題,政府唔好事先將市民當係賊先得o架。」


地球之友高級環境事務主任區詠芝認為,不應與膠袋稅一樣將費用顯示在單據上,變相由市民承擔。

電器稅最高250元 店舖代徵 倡消費者負擔 按體積計算


電器稅最高250元 店舖代徵 倡消費者負擔 按體積計算
明報 
11/09/2011


深水埗是電腦商場集中地,信成佳負責人李永強擔心,由商戶代收電子廢物徵費,日後行政上會有困難,又指電腦「砌機」有不同組合零件,如果日後徵費,登記程序十分繁複。


http://easss.com/electronics


【明報專訊】政府即將向立法會提出廢電器及電子產品回收徵費法案,在電器代理業界強烈反對下,落實改由電器零售店代為徵費,由消費者負擔;亦即進口商毋須分擔污染責任。


電器回收徵費向「四電一腦」徵收,即電視機、冷氣機、雪櫃、洗衣機及電腦,視乎體積徵費100至250元不等,政府另斥資4億元在屯門環保園興建回收廠,配合法例加強回收舊電器。


零售業界憂打擊小型店舖
電器及電腦業界均反對零售層面徵費,香港電腦商會主席梁定球擔心業界要減價抵消徵費,以保障銷情,但中小企利潤微薄,可能「一百幾十(元)的回收費都未必啃得落」,擔心徵費計劃會淘汰小型電腦商舖,令消費者選擇減少。


政府去年1月就「四電一腦」回收徵費諮詢公眾3個月,收集到2700多份意見,環保署昨向環境諮詢委員會提交立法建議,安排在下周一討論,並於月底諮詢立法會。


進口商毋須分擔污染責任
環諮會文件顯示,計劃不會擴展至其他電子產品如手提電話、數碼相機及電子遊戲機,因為這些產品的二手市場甚活躍,棄置比例較低。


本港每年棄置的廢電器達7萬公噸,當中「四電一腦」佔85%,故政府先集中處理該5種產品。針對收費方式及水平,政府參考公眾意見後,認為零售層面徵費較恰當,至於在入口層面及棄置時才徵費,分別有行政費過高及非法棄置問題。


然而,在零售層面徵費,亦意味着進口商毋須分擔污染責任。
徵費水平則視乎電器體積而定,介乎100至250元不等,並指個人電腦體積小,傾向徵收較低費用。


政府斥4億屯門建回收廠
現時有約1.3萬公噸廢電器在本港循環再造,其餘4.6萬公噸出口。政府希望透過徵費,將每年在港處理的廢電器提升至3萬公噸,佔整體四成。為建立回收制度,環保署建議斥資4億元,於屯門環保園興建一座佔地3公頃的回收廠,每年營運費用則高達2.2億元,按本報計算,處理每件廢電器的平均成本為110元。政府將委託承辦商,以「設計、建造、營運」模式營運回收廠,並要負責回收服務,但政府未交代回收廠詳細營運模式。


綠色力量科學及自然護理總監鄭睦奇表示,業界向政府上繳的費用,可在計劃初期成立一個基金,以支付回收廠承辦商的營運費用,讓市民明白徵費用於環保,貫徹污者自付精神。但他指出,政府在計算徵費水平時,必須準確反映回收成本,否則變成公帑補貼,形成無底深潭。

2011-11-08

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2011-11-06

Wi-fi expert Barrie Trower warns of health dangers


Wi-fi expert Barrie Trower warns of health dangers
7th October 2010


Wi-fi expert Barrie Trower will be hosting a meeting in Swindon on Friday to discuss the issue of wi-fi, and what he perceives are the dangers of the technology.


The meeting will be held at the Pilgrim Centre in Regent Circus on October 8. Doors open at 7pm and the talk starts at 7.30pm. There will be a question and answer session afterwards at this free event.


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Ahead of the meeting, Barrie chatted to Swindon Advertiser columnist, Liz Brackenbury, about his take on the introduction of wi-fi in Swindon.


Liz: Hi Barrie, thank you for inviting me down to interview you. As you know I write a column for the Swindon Advertiser. I write about topics that concern me as a parent and on subjects which I feel passionate about, especially local issues. 


One of the subjects I wrote about in the paper was my concerns over the implementation of 1,400 mini masts in Swindon that will create an electro mesh over the town and the effects it might have on Swindon residents’ health. 


Firstly can you give me a bit of your background, as to what you’ve done?


Barrie: Yes of course. I trained in the1960s with all aspects of microwave technology and microwave warfare. I teach advanced physics as a profession, which again involves microwave knowledge. I am also the author of two TETRA (Terrestrial Trunk Radio) reports for the police federation and I am now invited all over the world to talk on this subject


Liz: Can you tell me what exactly is wi-fi? A lot of people don’t really understand what it is.


Barrie: Wi-fi is a computer system that works off microwaves. It transmits and receives microwaves, the information is carried in the microwaves


Liz: Why should we be concerned about that?


Barrie: Microwaves react with water. That includes water in the body. That’s how microwave ovens work, they react with water. They are not like radio waves. We are now using microwaves for a communication system, these microwaves will react with our water-based bodies


Liz: Surely microwaves have been around since the start of time? They are a natural occurrence. So what’s the problem?


Barrie: Yes that’s true we have evolved with microwaves, but we haven’t evolved with what is coming out of all the mobile phones and wi-fi transmitters. These are unnatural levels. 


Also the difference is that the planet’s natural microwave background is static. This is not a static field, it’s an osolating field. 


What microwave communication is using are pulsed microwaves. It’s not the microwave so much that’s the danger, but the fact that it is pulsed. These pulses interfere with our body’s natural rhythms, our brains, our hearts - everything.


Liz: You said your background is in microwave warfare, but what's that got to do with wi-fi?


Barrie: Microwaves have been used in warfare since the 1960’s. They are the perfect stealth weapon. You can’t see them, you can’t feel them, you can’t smell them, you can’t touch them. 


All you have to do is beam your victim with levels of pulsed microwaves to cause illness, either mental and physical, or both, depending on the frequency used. 


My job was to measure the level of microwave frequency used and see what illnesses were caused by it.


Liz: Surely you don’t mean that modern wi-fi technology is using the same levels of frequency as were used in warfare to make people ill?


Barrie: Yes, that’s absolutely what I’m saying. It’s exactly the same microwave frequency used in wi-fi technology that was used in warfare.


Me: Wi-fi seems to be everywhere, in cafes, on trains, in hotels, even in the motorway service station on the way down here. It has been promoted as a good thing. 


Everywhere seems to be offering free wi-fi? How can this be allowed if this technology has history that links it to human illnesses?


Barrie: Governments have known of the effect on the human body from microwaves since the 1970s. It’s been cited and published in thousands of research papers. The public is being sold a lie. 


The telecommunications industry is bigger than any government. 


It can pay another scientist to contradict an independent scientist’s findings, and publish research in their favour. This creates a state of confusion and contradiction. 


Most people don’t have the time to sift through all this information. Therefore misinformation is circulated. 


Wi-fi is promoted as a new technology, innovative and ground-breaking when nothing can be further from the truth. The ill-effects of this technology have been known for years.


Liz: What would you say to people who'd say this was all scaremongering?


Barrie: I would say scaremongering is when you say something for effect without having the evidence to back it up. I have all the published, cited and documented proof to substantiate what I say. The evidence is here; I can prove and support what I say.


Liz: What would you say to the people of Swindon?


Barrie: What I’d like to say to Swindon is get me in front of your councillors and local MP s. Get me down to Swindon and invite the public and the press and media to be there so they can hear what I’ve got to say. 


Invite people from the oncology department, cancer specialists, headteachers, governors, principals, members of the public. Get me down to Swindon and I will prove why this is cannot happen in Swindon.

2011-11-04

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2011-11-02

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