China Shuts Down Counterfeit Apple Shops

China has changed to close down a few counterfeit Apple stores found in Kunming city.

Three of the detailed counterfeit stores, that mimicked the look of the actual thing, came to the world's consideration after being unprotected on a blog.

Following the publicity, traffic officials investigated and found 5 stores in Kunming posing as authorized Apple sell outlets.

Two of the 5 have right away been closed as their owners lacked a business licence.

The BirdAbroad blog, created by an American lady living in Kunming, wrote about a revisit to one counterfeit Apple store that outwardly resembled the authorized outlets.

In the article, the blogger wrote about conversations with staff, many of whom were assured they worked is to US wiring firm.

Chinese officials investigated the emporium visited by BirdAbroad but it was not one of those closed down. It has a looseness to traffic and is selling genuine Apple products.

Apple has mentioned it has no criticism to make on the breakthrough of the counterfeit shops.

On her blog, BirdAbroad described the store as a "beautiful ripoff - a smart one - the most appropriate ripoff store you had ever seen" .

She describes how credible the emporium was at initial peek since so ample difficulty had been taken to duplicate key elements of a actual Apple store.

For instance, it has a circuitous staircase, the upper story seating area and employees wearing blue T-shirts and corpulent authorization lanyards.

On closer inspection, wrote BirdAbroad, the store did not appear to be assembled to a quite high standard.

The steps appeared to be feeble put together, the walls were not embellished accurately and, most damning, it had the difference "Apple store" created on the emporium front.

"Apple never writes 'Apple Store' on its signs - it only puts up the glowing, iconic fruit," wrote BirdAbroad.

Research by the blogger suggested that the only authorized Apple stores in China are in Beijing and Shanghai.

A serve examine suggested that nothing of the 3 stores she found are mentioned on Apple's list of authorized resellers well known to be trading in Kunming.

What was moreover misleading was where the counterfeit store had got the Apple products on sale - either they had advance from an Apple distributor or a dull marketplace source.

The blog access referring to the revisit to the counterfeit store has valid hugely renouned and has collected more than 500,000 visits in reduction than 48 hours.