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Roma on 24 June 2012

lol 

nevermind just saw the video.. 



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thranx on 24 June 2012
MDMAlliance said:
thranx said:
MDMAlliance said:
NintendoPie said:
Hm... this has to be some sort of misunderstanding. I seriously doubt a money loving company (like all the companies) would make themselves not be able to get more money.


Sadly, apparently it's not.


Sadly, apparently, it is.

 

"Sabet said when she called Apple’s corporate customer relations an employee apologized told her she could buy an iPad online."

 

"The policy lists Iran as one of five 'prohibited destinations' that the U.S. holds complete embargoes against. Exporting, selling or supplying Apple products to Iran is strictly prohibited without prior permission from the federal government, it states."

Seems its more of a misinterpretation by some employees. Not an apple policy.


So it's a coincidence it happened to two different people at  two different store?  I'm asking, not being sarcastic.


It may be. More likely just some racist employees. I am not sure. But it isn't Apple's policy so when she called she was told that she can buy the items. Seems really weird to me that it happened.



rocketpig on 24 June 2012

Shocking, absolutely shocking. There are stupid people who happen to work at Apple Stores and those same stupid people don't understand basic import/export laws.

Shocking, I say.

This has nothing to do with Apple itself. I'm sure a shitstorm came down on those employees (and the equally retarded manager) after that news bit aired.




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superchunk on 24 June 2012

Yeah, agree with rocketpig.

Apple, like any other US company, can't EXPORT its products to Cuba, Iran, NKorea among various other nations in the world. However, that has absolutely NO impact on selling the products in your stores in the US.

That store or managers are just plain stupid. I'm sure they were quickly reprimanded. Though I'm surprised there is no follow-up story by now with Apple making good with those customers. Maybe Apple prefers it to just go quietly away.