After the frantic digging that followed the (now disproved) announcement that the iPhone would cost Canadian customers a whopping $799, today I came upon the first iPhone I’ve seen to be offered from a UK high street retailer – an unlocked 8Gb model for an astronomical $1200.

That’s right – a closer look at the picture reveals a price of £595, which at current exchange rates translates to just over USD $1200. True enough, the phone is unlocked and available a month before Apple’s official UK release date of November 9th, but does this even come close to justifying the obscene price tag, especially when the label describes the product as “second hand”?

Still, it would take a special kind of idiot to part with £595 just to get the iPhone a few weeks early, especially when there are eBay auctions offering the exact same thing for under £300…