Fake Apple store found in China.

[paul*robertson]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14236786

Cheeky................

[Brian10161]

hehe cool, anything that can be, will be ripped off

[underclocker]

If it looks like an Apple store, sells Apple products, has employees that wear the Apple uniform and that truly believe they work for Apple, well...

Just incredible.

[ccookie66]

Wheres the fake PC store? I want a ThinkPad on sale!

[BGoins12]

Wheres the fake PC store? I want a ThinkPad on sale!

Hey wait a minute... this says TinkPard, not ThinkPad! *Goes back to fake PC store...store's closed up and gone.*

[ccookie66]

[rkawakami]

Hey wait a minute... this says TinkPard, not ThinkPad!

Well, here's one of my secrets for trolling on eBay... Look for "Thinpad". You'd be surprised how many times this misspelling occurs.

On Topic: And I'm still not prepared to purchase any Apple products for myself, fake store especially!

[BruisedQuasar]

Actually, three fake apple stores have been reported. Nothing new about this. COMMUNIST China (more accurately today Corporate Fascist China) and its traditional Chinese cultural sphere nations (N. Korea is one. Another is former Burma) have been rouge since the 1950s.

Westerners have never been able to get China. Western capitalists and corporation goons have had the glitter of China's 100s of millions in their eye since at least the 1830s. If you ever tour 2nd class military and economic power Britain, you will be surprised at just how many wealthy families there are in England. Probably a higher percentage there than in America. The families got stinking rich from 1800s drug pushing in China and India. Afganistan and Turkey were used to grow the opium and produce heroin for "world trade". Some of the big drug pushing companies still exist. Jewel Tea was one. The East West Company was another. Several wealthy American families got most of their great wealth from investment in the British drug trade, Forbes, Rockefeller, Dupont. The Duponts managed to convince Americans that Prohibition was a bad thing. That is failed and grew the Mafia. Both untrue. Duponts are huge in todays liquor trade and at the head of propaganda to legalize pot and other drug sales in USA. I fear Americans have been so dumbed down by the public school system from grade one to college diploma that any day now Americans will legalize drugs and families like Dupont and R.J. Renolds will get their fantasy, Americans to push drugs onto.

Today, China's great success is center stage for the greedy rich of the Western World, even Japanese corporations are in bed with the Chinese dictators. America was the model for the world from WWII to recently. South Korea, Japan, India, Taiwan modeled itself after America. China is the model today and make no mistake about it, since Mao died China is no socialist country.

China is fast emerging as the new world Super Power, economically and militarily., It slaps money into military growth like a nation gearing up for world war, China today is a new model, the new model, CORPORATE FASCISM. They preach communism, brotherhood, equality, the government of the worker, all propaganda today,

Think about it. Huge Western Corporations admire China today. China has the greedy rich man's fantasy, a disciplined, worker slave population that doesn't know its a slave population. Chinese dictators have its workers under strict control. No union movement to deal with, No workers rights leaders. Stand up in a filthy, unsafe, polluting factory in China and you disappear.

China's lackey North Korea has been conteferiting US and other European currency for years. Chinese Navy captains are the biggest pirates in the world. the smaller capitalist Asian countries complain all the time about their ships being taken by Chinese Navy vessels under false charges of violating China's territorial waters. The Navy takes the cargo of cars, road building machines, etc, empties the pockets of the crew and releases the ship with a warning to sin no more. Sony, the huge software companies practice draconian copyright protection enforcement in Western Countries but seem unconcerned about the serious theft of their property by the Chinese government. Before a new movie is shown twice at theaters, Chinese pirates have a high quality copy sent to China via Internet. Before the week is over, the streets of Asia are flooded with high quality pirated DVD copies for $2...

How did China become a manufacturing giant in less than 10 years? The government has a strict policy that foreign companies can treat Chinese workers like slaves BUT they must train Chinese for every job. In other words, each western engineer, machinist, designer, etc must train a Chinese counterpart and each factory must have a Chinese COO.

Each time, a company complains about abuses the dictators say "So, sorry. We are working on it but local and provincial corruption is big problem no under our control. We working on it". These dictators who rule China with an iron fist. These men who had no problem getting the army to run over the adult children of communist party members and leaders in Tennemen Square, killing over a 1,000 children of the Chinese elite communist party members want us to know that they cannot control corrupt officials and the new Chinese capitalists?

The West also buys it that N Korea isn't taking orders from China. They have for 600 years. What makes people assume they stopped? The Chinese elites did not give up the wars with the West of the 1840s and 1850s, just as they haven't forgotten little Japan's invasion and Rape of Nanking in 1938.

Now that China controls the world production of the 39 rare metals that all advanced countries MUST have to make electric cars, laptops, LCD TVs, advanced military weapons, etc it is beginning to try out this POWER. Last year, Chinese fishing ships went too far into Japanese waters. Violating Japanese fishing rights and laws within sight of the Shores of Japan! Japanese seized three ships. China gave Japan 24 hours to release them with an apology or China would cut off shipments of all 39 rare metals which would shut down the economy. Not only did China not offer any assistance for the Earthquake, they invaded Japanese waters during Japan's weak moment.

Japanese corporations told the government that the economy would shut down withing 24 hours if China kept hold on metals shipments. Japan released the ships immediately. Hilary Clinton called an emergency meeting of the state department heads. Subject? She realized China can do the same to USA, namely use shipments of the 39 rare metals to shut down the US economy.

You see Obama's electric lithium battery car uses seven of those rare metals and world lithium production is so reliant on one South American country, that electric cars move us from power of several mid east countries to one South American country that doesn't much like Americans.

Meanwhile, USA is forced by Congress and Obama is sit on the largest oil discovery of the last century. We have more oil in the Bakkun Oil field discovery of the Western states than the reserves of the entire middle east. Wake up people before you discover you are peasant workers of corporate fascism.

The American left, the right, the Democrats, the Republicans --its all Public Relations., Michelle Bachman, Obama, All of them serve the same masters, corporate fascists. Unless we vote out all of them at once, everything we do is one big joke, on us, the suckers.

What has people confused is what Democrats have done to the word Rich. You don't dare speak of "black people" or "Mexicans" or "indians" as if they are all the same but they have you thinking all rich people are the same. They are not. Only certain ones are greedy, power hungry wannabe fascists. Just as only certain corporate heads are greedy wannabe fascists like Gates, Jobs and the hundreds of executives made billionaires at the expense of stockholders, Anyone today who invests in a stock that never pays dividends but sells for over $100 a share is a sucker. Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook produces billionaire managers and leaves honest stock owners to go up and down and in the end end uo losing money. Its like the hard working tax payer losing money to government and union officials who get rich at their expense.

Or so it seems to me

--Bruised

[NonServiam]

But were they all fake?

[killer]

Actually, three fake apple stores have been reported. Nothing new about this. COMMUNIST China (more accurately today Corporate Fascist China) and its traditional Chinese cultural sphere nations (N. Korea is one. Another is former Burma) have been rouge since the 1950s.

Westerners have never been able to get China. Western capitalists and corporation goons have had the glitter of China's 100s of millions in their eye since at least the 1830s. If you ever tour 2nd class military and economic power Britain, you will be surprised at just how many wealthy families there are in England. Probably a higher percentage there than in America. The families got stinking rich from 1800s drug pushing in China and India. Afganistan and Turkey were used to grow the opium and produce heroin for "world trade". Some of the big drug pushing companies still exist. Jewel Tea was one. The East West Company was another. Several wealthy American families got most of their great wealth from investment in the British drug trade, Forbes, Rockefeller, Dupont. The Duponts managed to convince Americans that Prohibition was a bad thing. That is failed and grew the Mafia. Both untrue. Duponts are huge in todays liquor trade and at the head of propaganda to legalize pot and other drug sales in USA. I fear Americans have been so dumbed down by the public school system from grade one to college diploma that any day now Americans will legalize drugs and families like Dupont and R.J. Renolds will get their fantasy, Americans to push drugs onto.

Today, China's great success is center stage for the greedy rich of the Western World, even Japanese corporations are in bed with the Chinese dictators. America was the model for the world from WWII to recently. South Korea, Japan, India, Taiwan modeled itself after America. China is the model today and make no mistake about it, since Mao died China is no socialist country.

China is fast emerging as the new world Super Power, economically and militarily., It slaps money into military growth like a nation gearing up for world war, China today is a new model, the new model, CORPORATE FASCISM. They preach communism, brotherhood, equality, the government of the worker, all propaganda today,

Think about it. Huge Western Corporations admire China today. China has the greedy rich man's fantasy, a disciplined, worker slave population that doesn't know its a slave population. Chinese dictators have its workers under strict control. No union movement to deal with, No workers rights leaders. Stand up in a filthy, unsafe, polluting factory in China and you disappear.

China's lackey North Korea has been conteferiting US and other European currency for years. Chinese Navy captains are the biggest pirates in the world. the smaller capitalist Asian countries complain all the time about their ships being taken by Chinese Navy vessels under false charges of violating China's territorial waters. The Navy takes the cargo of cars, road building machines, etc, empties the pockets of the crew and releases the ship with a warning to sin no more. Sony, the huge software companies practice draconian copyright protection enforcement in Western Countries but seem unconcerned about the serious theft of their property by the Chinese government. Before a new movie is shown twice at theaters, Chinese pirates have a high quality copy sent to China via Internet. Before the week is over, the streets of Asia are flooded with high quality pirated DVD copies for $2...

How did China become a manufacturing giant in less than 10 years? The government has a strict policy that foreign companies can treat Chinese workers like slaves BUT they must train Chinese for every job. In other words, each western engineer, machinist, designer, etc must train a Chinese counterpart and each factory must have a Chinese COO.

Each time, a company complains about abuses the dictators say "So, sorry. We are working on it but local and provincial corruption is big problem no under our control. We working on it". These dictators who rule China with an iron fist. These men who had no problem getting the army to run over the adult children of communist party members and leaders in Tennemen Square, killing over a 1,000 children of the Chinese elite communist party members want us to know that they cannot control corrupt officials and the new Chinese capitalists?

The West also buys it that N Korea isn't taking orders from China. They have for 600 years. What makes people assume they stopped? The Chinese elites did not give up the wars with the West of the 1840s and 1850s, just as they haven't forgotten little Japan's invasion and Rape of Nanking in 1938.

Now that China controls the world production of the 39 rare metals that all advanced countries MUST have to make electric cars, laptops, LCD TVs, advanced military weapons, etc it is beginning to try out this POWER. Last year, Chinese fishing ships went too far into Japanese waters. Violating Japanese fishing rights and laws within sight of the Shores of Japan! Japanese seized three ships. China gave Japan 24 hours to release them with an apology or China would cut off shipments of all 39 rare metals which would shut down the economy. Not only did China not offer any assistance for the Earthquake, they invaded Japanese waters during Japan's weak moment.

Japanese corporations told the government that the economy would shut down withing 24 hours if China kept hold on metals shipments. Japan released the ships immediately. Hilary Clinton called an emergency meeting of the state department heads. Subject? She realized China can do the same to USA, namely use shipments of the 39 rare metals to shut down the US economy.

You see Obama's electric lithium battery car uses seven of those rare metals and world lithium production is so reliant on one South American country, that electric cars move us from power of several mid east countries to one South American country that doesn't much like Americans.

Meanwhile, USA is forced by Congress and Obama is sit on the largest oil discovery of the last century. We have more oil in the Bakkun Oil field discovery of the Western states than the reserves of the entire middle east. Wake up people before you discover you are peasant workers of corporate fascism.

The American left, the right, the Democrats, the Republicans --its all Public Relations., Michelle Bachman, Obama, All of them serve the same masters, corporate fascists. Unless we vote out all of them at once, everything we do is one big joke, on us, the suckers.

What has people confused is what Democrats have done to the word Rich. You don't dare speak of "black people" or "Mexicans" or "indians" as if they are all the same but they have you thinking all rich people are the same. They are not. Only certain ones are greedy, power hungry wannabe fascists. Just as only certain corporate heads are greedy wannabe fascists like Gates, Jobs and the hundreds of executives made billionaires at the expense of stockholders, Anyone today who invests in a stock that never pays dividends but sells for over $100 a share is a sucker. Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook produces billionaire managers and leaves honest stock owners to go up and down and in the end end uo losing money. Its like the hard working tax payer losing money to government and union officials who get rich at their expense.

Or so it seems to me

--Bruised

Blimey, what a rant! I thought I might be opinionated until I read this.

If you want to buy Apple products then buy them from Apple's website. Anything else could be phoney ... iPhoney?

[RealBlackStuff]

Please don't waste any time on this, the forum's most vocal anti-anything...
If I had the funds, I'd send him on a one-way trip to Mongolia.