China suspends 2 of 5 fake Apple stores in 1 city

Source: AP

BEIJING (AP) - Chinese officials found five fake Apple stores in a southwestern city and ordered two of them to suspend business while they're investigated, a local government website said Monday.

Officials couldn't do anything about the other three stores - which prominently displayed Apple signs and logos - because they did not find any fake Apple products for sale, according to a report by a local newspaper posted on the Kunming city government's website.

The investigation follows a blog post last week by an American woman who lives in Kunming in Yunnan province, who stumbled across three shops masquerading as bona fide Apple stores in the city. She took photos and posted them on her BirdAbroad blog.

She said they were modeled on the company's iconic stores right down to the winding staircase and the staff wearing the customary blue T-shirts.


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In this photo taken Thursday, July 21, 2011, workers dressed as an Apple store employee attends customers at a shop masquerading as a bona fide Apple store in downtown Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan province. China, long known for producing counterfeit consumer gadgets, software and brand name clothing, has reached a new piracy milestone, fake Apple stores. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Lots of them.

lived in a remote province for a few years, the city had a 'foreigners' bar owned by a British expat. They served a lot of JD. One day he says "Try this." It was Jack. Wait, no it wasnt. He gave me some real stuff to try and they were so close it was remarkable but you could tell there was a slight difference. The bottles were 99.99% identical. Counterfeiting is crazy over there. Lots of money to be made. On the plus side I got plenty of free whiskey :toast:

This would be why I have a hard drive docking station. never bought an external hard drive. I built my own.

http://thegadgetsite.com/2011/04/fake-samsung-hdd-appears-chinese-scammers-seem-to-have-found-the-trick-to-build-an-infinite-hard-drive/ oh thought it was a 500gb drive. nope, it's a 128mb flash drive tweaked to say 500gb

There may come a time.. when China will kick our ass.

Stay tuned.