The lowest price of iPhone 6s in Hong Kong is about 721 USD and in China it is 829 USD.
Huaqiangbei Electronics Market.
Tang Shouquan, a person who specializes in selling fake Apple and Samsung products, shared with SCMP that they often buy the real version from Hong Kong for comparison and immediately adjust the color and shape so that the fake device looks like the real thing.
On the outside, it is very difficult for buyers to distinguish fake iPhones from real ones because the Android operating system has been customized to have identical icons to iOS on the Home screen.
Tang said most counterfeit goods are sold to low-income customers.
iPhone is a trendy product in China.
iPhones are considered one of the trendiest items in China, alongside MacBook computers, Hermes bags or Prada apparel.
Hoa Cuong Bac has long been notorious for selling fake/counterfeit iPhones from the first generation to this year’s newest product.
`At that time, he was very famous. Representatives of retail stores across the country lined up in front of his office with bags of money in their hands. Every day, he earned up to 300,000 yuan ($47,000).
Stores with the Apple logo spring up close to each other on a street in Shenzhen.
Meanwhile, according to Reuters, there are not only fake iPhones but also fake Apple Stores in China.
`In China there are many Apple fans,` shared an employee named Zhao at one of the stores not authorized by Apple.
And so the smuggling situation took place.
Similarly in Vietnam, stores send staff or hire people to buy iPhones early in Hong Kong, the US… and then bring them back to the country to sell at double or triple the actual price in the first days.
Apple does not comment on the widespread presence of stores like this, but some analysts say it shows Apple’s appeal and helps make its brand more popular.
Chau An