Fake Apple Stores Identified in China and Other Countries

Fake Apple Stores Identified in China and Other CountriesAfter the news of fake Apple retail stores in China, now a few have been notified in the countries from Croatia, Venezuela and a few others.

Five fake Apple stores were identified in China and among them, two have been closed down by the Chinese officials. However, it has been notified that no action will be taken against the other three stores as no fake apple products for sale have been found, they just display the Apple signs and logos.

According to the Kunming city government's website, there have been no official stores in the region, but, there are 13 official resellers in Kumming.

The writer of the BirdAbroad blog, who identified these fake stores, stated that the readers have got in touch with her after the revelation and has been informing her about the "fake (or at least seriously questionable)" Apple stores situated in Burma, Croatia, Columbia, Slovenia, Spain Venezuela and in Xian, a Chinese city.

According to BirdAbroad blog, "Apple never writes 'Apple Store' on its signs - it just puts up the glowing, iconic fruit". The official stores of Apple were just in Beijing and Shanghai and the other stores in China were not mentioned on Apple's list of official resellers known to be trading in Kunming.