I’ll bet that photo looks familiar. Remember back whenever this little thing hit the interwebs and everybody was saying, “OMG It’s the 3G iPhone!!!”… then it turned out to just be a case for the current iPhone? I remember that. I also remember thinking about how badly I wanted that fucking case, even though I didn’t have an iPhone. Well, with the upcoming WWDC, and the inevitable release of the 3G iPhone, I’m getting ready to pounce on the sudden price drop of the prev. gen iPhone. Wait, wait, don’t tell me how stupid I am for buying old tech. I’ve thought about this very hard. I will probably never buy the data plan, and I never ever use GPS. I see no reason to buy the next iPhone other than the obvious HD space bump, and that’s just not that big of a concern for me. But anyway, I digress. I’m gearing up to buy an iPhone and I thought, “I bet that case would looks super sexy on my iPhone.” So I went to the original blog that it was posted at, WinandMac, where they had a link to the site where you could buy the case. I hopped over to the page, but couldn’t find the phone case anywhere. I got a little frustrated, so I shot an email to the owner of the site concerning the case, and he sent back an email that shocked me! His response indicates that this case is NOT for the current iPhone. Keep reading for the full conversation…

Me: Hello, I am contacting you to ask if you still sell the all black iPhone case? If you do, I would also like to know if you ship internationally.

Shop Owner: Hi Jake, kindly confirm the black iphone case with photo, coz there are two black iphone case for sell. - we do ship all mac parts international.

Me: [Pictures of Case] The case would fit an 8GB iPhone tightly, correct?

SO: we are so sorry to tell u that these item won’t be able to fit on any iphone in the market.

Me: Are you telling me that the case is made for an item that isn’t available yet?

SO: yes, u are right.

I know his english and grammar isn’t great, but it’s a Chinese shop that supposedly sells these. I don’t know about you guys, but that sounds like it’s a case or maybe a replacement case for the newest iPhone that will be hitting the shelves in June. Also, I may be looking too deeply into it, but he says that they ship all PARTS internationally, so it could be a replacement kit, but who knows.

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