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Are they in the habit of paying $5,000 for things that they think are likely Chinese knockoffs?

They probably are in a habit of paying money for devices which look interesting and aren't easily available in the US market. So if somebody comes to them with a next gen mp3 player from China and they like it from the looks they probably gonna pay good money for it.

'Hello, Apple public relations? Is that Harry Helpful? Hey Harry, John Journalist from famous tech blog Gizmodo here...yeah I'm fine. Listen, someone gave me this thing that looks like a prototype of the new iPhone. Maybe you want to check in with your legal or engineering departments...'

they surely hoped it was a stolen nextgen iphone and not a knockoff.