{"id":3257,"date":"2013-08-08T08:53:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T12:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2013-08-08T08:53:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T12:53:39","slug":"9-most-outrageous-things-ever-faked-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/08\/08\/9-most-outrageous-things-ever-faked-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Most Outrageous Things Ever Faked in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, yes, we know that China has a lot of fake handbags, knockoff watches, and pirated DVDs. That’s ho-hum, but the country seems to be all about pushing the envelope and testing the limits of what can<\/em> be faked. Let’s take a look at the 9 most outrageous things ever faked in China.<\/p>\n

1. Fake Receipts<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nPhoto: China’s Ministry of Public Security<\/p>\n

What? Why in the world would anyone need phony receipts? To claim fake tax deductions and defraud employers for reimbursements, of course! In fact, fake receipts or “fapiao” is big business in China – for example, employees of the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline managed to submit $6 million worth of fake receipts over the years.<\/p>\n

You can get any kind of fake receipts you want. Need travel receipts? How about something more, uh, specialized like waste material receipts? Not a problem – in fact, the business of forged receipt is so consumer friendly (after all, it is<\/em> a service industry) that you can get special discounts and same-day delivery of the goods. [Source: NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

2. Fake Businessman or “White Guy in a Tie”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer Mitch Moxley was approached by a friend of a friend in Beijing and offered a sweet deal: “Basically, you put on a suit, shake some hands, and make some money. We’ll be in ‘quality control,’ but nobody’s going to be doing any quality control. You in?”<\/p>\n

He was, and the deal was indeed very good. Moxley was paid $1,000 a week, put up in a fancy hotel, wined and dined. All he had to do was be himself, a white guy in a tie:<\/p>\n

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… so I became a fake businessman in China, an often lucrative gig for underworked expatriates here. One friend, an American who works in film, was paid to represent a Canadian company and give a speech espousing a low-carbon future. Another was flown to Shanghai to act as a seasonal-gifts buyer. Recruiting fake businessmen is one way to create the image\u00e2\u20ac\u201dparticularly, the image of connection\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat Chinese companies crave. My Chinese-language tutor, at first aghast about how much we were getting paid, put it this way: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Having foreigners in nice suits gives the company face.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [Source: The Atlantic<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

3. Fake Apple Store<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Apple Store in Kunming, China sure looks the part: gleaming iPads displayed on minimalist beechwood tables, crisp marketing graphics and eager associates in blue shirts ready to assist you with the latest gadgets. But something juuuust doesn’t seem quite right, as blogger BirdAbroad noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, as you’ve guessed, though the Apple products were real, the store itself was completely fake. But you know what’s amazing about the level of fakery? Even the employees working there believed that they were actually working for Apple!<\/em><\/p>\n

4. Fake IKEA Store<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nPhoto: Reuters<\/p>\n

If you think about it, Apple Stores are small and therefore quite easy to copy. But how about the Swedish furniture behemoth IKEA? Now their warehouse-styled stores are SO huge that they’d be impossible to knockoff, right? Not in China!<\/p>\n

Meet 11Furniture, which has copied not only IKEA’s products but also its signature blue-and-yellow color scheme, 100,000-square feet warehouse complete with showrooms, mini pencils, and cafeteria-style restaurant! Well, at least they don’t have products with unpronounceable Swedish names … [Source: Daily Mail<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Yes, yes, we know that China has a lot of fake handbags, knockoff watches, and pirated DVDs. That’s ho-hum, but the country seems to be all about pushing the envelope and testing the limits of what can be faked. Let’s take a look at the 9 most outrageous things ever faked in China. 1. Fake … <\/p>\n

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