Fake Apple Stores Found In China

An American blogger has detected 3 counterfeit Apple stores working in Kunming city, China.

Pictures of the stores, their staff and a outline of a saunter around them was posted on the BirdAbroad blog.

In the article, she writes about conversations with staff, many of whom were assured that they were in use by the US wiring firm.

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

On her blog, BirdAbroad described the stores as a "beautiful ripoff - a smart a - 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 trade 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.