[Duffy]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...76O02K20110725

Chinese officials in Kunming ordered two fake Apple shops to close, a local newspaper reported on Monday, an apparent reaction to a storm of media attention about an unauthorised and elaborate hoax store in the southwestern city.



See more pictures of the store here.

[Mike]

This is rather disconcerting. But elaborate nonetheless, good catch on the bloggers part, all these stores look the same, even in China.

[Sel]

lol, they all do look the same, so do the people working in them hahaha they are all dressed the same too

spookey

[perfectuser]

excellent catch, i'm sure the guys that thought up that scam are pissing themselves now. i honestly never been inside a single apple store, but Sel has a point.. lol

[chaso]

Wow, those guys were pretty brave to do something that complicated... good thing they were caught!

[Johnston]

RP and I went inside and poked around. They looked like Apple products. It looked like an Apple store. It had the classic Apple store winding staircase and weird upstairs sitting area. The employees were even wearing those blue t-shirts with the chunky Apple name tags around their necks


You have already guessed the punchline, of course: this was a total Apple store ripoff. A beautiful ripoff – a brilliant one – the best ripoff store we had ever seen (and we see them every day). But some things were just not right: the stairs were poorly made. The walls hadn’t been painted properly.

Apple never writes “Apple Store” on it’s signs – it just puts up the glowing, iconic fruit.

[LukeM]

WOW. That took some balls.

[FXScannerDarkly]

This is the most humorous thing I've seen in a while.

I must say ONLY IN CHINA

[Bbarbara]

This is the most humorous thing I've seen in a while.

I must say ONLY IN CHINA

of its pity as a fact((((((((((

[tean]

People must know how to differentiate fake and original today because it is not good for us people who invest so much and then knowing that what we bought was just fake.