I love new gadgets, but there's never a "right time" to buy. Now it seems, you may not even be buying the real thing?!
Nokia's latest mobile phones have appeared on eBay this week. The N96 (US$500+) and Sapphire Arte (US$1,000) mobile phone handsets are being listed for "way below the market price." Uh, an obvious hint that they're fake?!
Surprising to me is the role Dubai plays in the trade of bogus goods. It seems that the UAE is a known hub for traffiking goods from China to the West. Known as the "dragon market" it's described as "the biggest trading port for Chinese traders outside China."
Nokia UK's managing director, Simon Ainslie, told Mobile magazine, "We take [counterfeit products] very seriously. Copied phones still exist and our intellectual property team are always investigating them."
Here is a blatant advert for a website that supplies the bogus gadgets.
Helpful links
How to detect fake Nokias
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