(CNN) -- Want to get an iPhone 5 on Friday? You'll probably need to wait in line. Or pay someone to do it for you. Hipster-looking shoppers already have plopped down in folding chairs outside Apple's flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York. And in San Francisco, a man working through a micro-tasking company (more on what that means in a second) has been diligently waiting in line, for a price, since Monday. "You're going to wait here until Friday? God watch over you," a stranger told that person, who was using a service called TaskRabbit, according to his Twitter feed.
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People will stand in iPhone 5 lines for you, for a price
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The going rate on TaskRabbit is $40 to $150 for a line stander
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The iPhone 5 goes on sale at stores in nine countries on Friday
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