CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -
Apple fever is all around us as we're less than a day until the new iPhone 5 goes on sale.
Chicagoans are already camping out for the new iPhone-5 along the Apple Store on Michigan Avenue.
What's happening outside the Michigan Avenue Apple Store is part tech-fanaticism, part endurance trial, and part make-a-buck-however-you-can entrepreneurship.
Danielle Deetz - a recent cosmetology school grad - slept in front of the store Wednesday night.
She accepted a response Thursday, to an ad she put on Craigslist. She's selling her No. 5 spot in line spot $450.
"I want to go home and sleep," Deetz said. "It's hard like being out here in the cold."
But she will still get an iPhone 5, because she ordered one via last week's presale.
Most of the other stories out here are similar.
"Right now I have an android," Gregory Thornton said. "So I mean, I see all my friends with the iPhones. I feel like at this time in my life it's about time to upgrade."
Thornton is second in line. He helps run an event promotion business and wants that phone the first day it comes out.
But, you know, everyone has his price.
"If someone pays me $1,000 I will be more than happy to wait three weeks for it to come out again, Thornton said.
His business partner Julian Diggs said he turned down an offer for $500.
"I really want the phone," Diggs said. "[For] $1,200 I'll give up my spot."
Devin Torkelson and a friend are combining their spots in line. As their iPad says: "Two Seats: $800."
If they don't get it - they're fine doing this just for the phone.
"When you think about it," Torkelson said, "people go sit outside for shoes. They sit around, they sit outside for other stuff waiting in line but an iPhone is something really important to me - especially with our generation - how we're always on the phone, 24/7. So the iPhone just seems like the perfect thing for me."
They say it might seem crazy, but it's well worth the wait to keep their spots in line on the Magnificent Mile.
The iPhone 5 officially debuts on Friday.
Apple announced record-breaking pre-order sales amounting to two million within the first 24 hours.
