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Wang Hai sues Apple store over repackaged iPhones
By Pan Zheng |
August 17, 2011, Wednesday
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A famous consumer rights advocate has sued an Apple Inc-authorized retailer in Beijing of repackaging returned iPhone 4 and selling them as new, the Beijing Times reported today.
Wang Hai, who became a household name in China for fighting counterfeits, blogged on the Twitter-like Weibo.com yesterday that he believed the Apple store was cheating customers with repackaged iPhone 4 and said he had filed a lawsuit as the agent of two buyers on Monday.
The Beijing Apple store refused to comment on this yesterday.
Wang said in his blog that his clients surnamed Liu and Wu each bought an iPhone 4 with 4,999 yuan in the Apple store in Xidan Street on July 9. Since the warranty period of iPhone 4 is one year, these two phones were supposed to have their warranty period ending in July 2012. However, when they searched the serial numbers of their phones on the Apple website, they found their warranty periods would end on January 28 and April 26 of 2012, meaning they were not new goods.
Qiu Baochang, a Beijing lawyer, told the newspaper that if Wang's charge proved true, the Apple store should return the payment for the two iPhones and pay the buyers cash compensation equivalent to the cost of their phones.
Wang Hai, who became a household name in China for fighting counterfeits, blogged on the Twitter-like Weibo.com yesterday that he believed the Apple store was cheating customers with repackaged iPhone 4 and said he had filed a lawsuit as the agent of two buyers on Monday.
The Beijing Apple store refused to comment on this yesterday.
Wang said in his blog that his clients surnamed Liu and Wu each bought an iPhone 4 with 4,999 yuan in the Apple store in Xidan Street on July 9. Since the warranty period of iPhone 4 is one year, these two phones were supposed to have their warranty period ending in July 2012. However, when they searched the serial numbers of their phones on the Apple website, they found their warranty periods would end on January 28 and April 26 of 2012, meaning they were not new goods.
Qiu Baochang, a Beijing lawyer, told the newspaper that if Wang's charge proved true, the Apple store should return the payment for the two iPhones and pay the buyers cash compensation equivalent to the cost of their phones.
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