If you are wondering just how briskly the iPad 2 is selling, you don’t have to wait until Apple announces official sales figures – just ask the online auction site eBay. Thursday morning, the service announced just under 12,000 of the new generation tablets were sold in the two weeks between the start of U.S. sales and the recent launch in 25 additional countries.
Among the interesting figures, a majority (65 percent) of iPad 2s sold through eBay went to domestic customers, nearly double the 35 percent for the original iPad in 2010. Canada and Russia topped the list of international destinations for the iPad 2. Intriguingly, Russian demand for the iPad 2 is much higher than for the first tablet, according to eBay.
Some 500 iPad 2s were shipped to Russian customers, more than twice the 215 iPads sent in 2010. Additionally, Russia imported the most 16GB iPads, as well as paying the largest premium for the 32GB version – $306 above retail.
If Russia was the largest pick-up in iPad 2 sales, Australia showed the biggest reduction in iPad demand. Auction service members imported nearly a third fewer iPad 2s than the original, 317 versus 110 in 2010.
[CNET]
