When reached by phone after many attempts, someone at the Kunming store finally picked up. He said that unlike other black market operations, their faux-pomme shop was above the board, selling only authentic Apple products, at normal Apple prices, to customers who don’t have access to one of the only four legit Apple stores in all of China.
And they’re not gonna change. At least not for now: “It doesn’t make much of a difference for us whether we’re authorised or not,” explained the clerk. “I just care that what I sell every day are authentic Apple products, and that our customers don’t come back to me to complain about the quality of the products.” So there you go, Genius. [WSJ]
Awnshegh
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:58 PMAs long as the products are legit – then booyah for them. If it turns out they’re selling 2-bit fakes, I just hope the store clerks don’t end up being lynched for someone else’s greed.
Jack
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 6:09 PMI agree.
Steve
Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 12:43 AMDidn’t they fool all their ‘specialists’ into believing that they were bona fide Apple employees? I don’t think it’s just a clear cut issue of selling KIRF goods or not.
yifeng
Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 2:12 AMif the products they are selling are legit, the shop is doing a good deed that revealing the failure of Apple in the Chinese market.