[muawiyah]

Apple has a well known but not heavily enforced dicta regarding sales to foreigners. If you come from someplace their warranties don't cover, they discourage you buying it.

Apple warranties differ from place to place ~ China is one of those places they don't cover ~ but the Chines manufactur Apple products.

BTW, you call the cops, no matter what happens, you have a moral responsibility for your own call.

[Jordo]

Please provide some evidence for this “well-known” Apple policy. I can’t find it. I’ve learned that a lot of “well-known” stuff isn’t actually true.

Your claim assumes the staff in the store has some way to know where customers come from. They’ve never asked me any questions about that. They’ve never asked for ID. I’ve seen this store sell stacks of popular items — literally more than a person could carry — to “foreign looking” customers.

Your claim contradicts several years of my personal experience to the contrary, so forgive me if I’m skeptical.

[Jordo]

Out of curiosity, I just checked Apple’s China web store. They do sell iPhones there, and they do have warranty coverage. I don’t read Chinese so I can’t understand the details. But there’s enough English in the web page for me to figure out the basics.

http://www.apple.com.cn/support/products/iphone.html

[elkfersupper]

BTW, you call the cops, no matter what happens, you have a moral responsibility for your own call.

Confirming my conviction that no matter how dire the situation, you can always make it worse by adding a cop.