[Prog Rock Man]

Unfortunately a friend bought this fake ipod Nano off ipodsnanosonline, a Chinese 'company' selling 5th gen Nanos for £59. Frighteningly, if you search for a 5th gen ipod Nano, it is one of the first sites to appear.
 
The site has a McAfee symbol and a Verisign symbol, but both are copies from elsewhere. You have to log on and give your card details and then weeks later you get this......
 
 
 

 
A comparison with a real Nano (which is the silver one) shows clear differences....
 

 

 

 

 

[Angelopsaro]

They tried their best to make a site which can trick people.
Of course they don't accept paypal . In case you want to return!

Did you contact them for full refund?
 
This is the case were steve jobs personality is a positive thing. If you report to apple they will sure sue them.

 

[Prog Rock Man]

It was a mate who bought it and they are asking for a refund. That is a good idea contacting Apple.
 
 

 

[logwed]

Your friend might try talking to a Apple sales rep, maybe they'll replace it or something (slim chance, but it doesn't hurt to try). If your friend is SOL and can't get anything for it, it would be interesting to open that thing up and see what's inside, I think.

 

[Prog Rock Man]

He wants to try and get a refund. Interestingly, I cannot find the site now. Yesterday it was one of the first sites to come up doing a google search.

 

[logwed]

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He wants to try and get a refund. Interestingly, I cannot find the site now. Yesterday it was one of the first sites to come up doing a google search.

Yeah, I was going to ask you for a link because I couldn't get to it via google or URL.com or URL.uk. 

 

[Angelopsaro]

http://www.ipodnano-sales.info/
 
 here it is

 

[Prog Rock Man]

Thanks for that, details now sent to Apple.

 

[Angelopsaro]

PLease let us know, if they offered refund and apple's reply.

 

[Prog Rock Man]

Will do. 

 

[JoetheArachnid]

Out of interest, does the fake work? Does it run the correct OS? Does it synch with iTunes properly?
 
Not that I want one, but just interested in knowing how good the fakes can get.

 

[Nagasaki_Kid]

The verisign and macafee logos are fake too they are hosted on their own server
I think you should also report them to verisign

 

[Prog Rock Man]

It never worked so I do not know for certain how it would work. Reports to McAfee and Verisign going as well.
 
 

 

[Angelopsaro]

Did yu ask for the redund first? its very importand to do this first. because when those companies strart contacting the site owners there might might try to hide their trace and you wont be able to contact them again.

 

[Prog Rock Man]

It was not me who bought the ipod. My friend has sent it back and I will see if she has any success.