{"id":1415,"date":"2015-03-12T06:25:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T05:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/fake-apple-watches-go-on-sale-on-taobao\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T10:19:14","slug":"fake-apple-watches-go-on-sale-on-taobao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/fake-apple-watches-go-on-sale-on-taobao\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Apple Watches go on sale on TaoBao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After only a couple of days since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/live\/2015-mar-event\/\">official announcement<\/a>, Apple Watches are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/1ab6bb10-c7bf-11e4-8210-00144feab7de.html\">already being sold<\/a> in China &#8211; or at least very similar devices. These knock-off Apple Watches appear to have been copied in every detail, though\u00a0prices are much lower than the original.\u00a0Apple watches are expected to be sold starting next month.<\/p>\n<p>Fake Apple Watches had already appeared in January at the\u00a0Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show for suspiciously low prices,\u00a0proving once again the speed and astonishing skills of Chinese manifacturers. They appear to be around ten times cheaper than the original one, and\u00a0running a version of Android redesigned to look like Apple&#8217;s iOS.<\/p>\n<p>These episodes are unfortunately <a href=\"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/taobao-fake-products\/\">very common <\/a>on TaoBao, where selling fake products is \u00a0easy and painless.\u00a0Chinese authorities have <a href=\"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/china-will-regulate-ecommerce-strictly\/\">recently spoken against<\/a> this phenomenon, and have pledged to fight counterfeits\u00a0in order to better regulate the Chinese eCommerce market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After only a couple of days since the official announcement, Apple Watches are already being&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trilogi.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}