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A man outside Shanghai’s Middle Huaihai Road store attracted the attention of 10 police officers when he threatened to smash\u00a0what he claimed was\u00a0a defective\u00a027-inch iMac that he had purchased<\/a><\/strong>, according to China Daily (which published the above photo):<\/p>\n

“I told them I need a refund, and they owe Chinese users an apology,” the man, Zou Hongqing, told China Daily.<\/p>\n

Zou said his computer developed dust spots because of defective design and should be recalled.<\/p>\n

He said he arrived in Shanghai six days ago to sue Best Buy, an authorized distributor of Apple.<\/p>\n

Shanghai’s Xuhui District Court will mediate between Zou and Best Buy on March 20.<\/p>\n

Apple declined to comment on the incident, but had said earlier that the problem was caused by the dust in the air in China, rather than being a quality or design flaw, provoking outrage among users nationwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apple’s third generation iPad also went on sale today in the U.S. and 9 other countries<\/a> around the world, including Hong Kong, where the San Francisco Chronicle reports that Apple utilized an online lottery system<\/a> to avoid the riot-like atmosphere that engulfed one of its Beijing stores<\/a> when the iPhone 4S launched in January. The Globe and Mail posted a video report from Hong Kong<\/a>, where it found no long queues outside Apple’s IFC store and paid a visit to a local reseller.\u00a0The South China Morning post also reported that a secondary market opened outside the story almost immediately<\/a><\/strong>, despite Apple’s best efforts to prevent scalping:<\/p>\n

Even so, one man was seen pocketing HK$13,100 for selling, to a trader, two 32GB iPads he had just bought for HK$4,688 each.<\/p>\n

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Some resellers were having difficulty getting buyers to part with their new iPads. A Guangzhou student offered RMB$15,000 to the very first iPad buyer, but was rejected. He was trying to buy it for an \u201cimportant [person]\u201d, but refused to say who he meant.<\/p>\n

Murat Omurov, 26, said he travelled all the way from Kazakhstan to buy iPads. He was offered HK$5,000 to buyers but, by late morning, had found no one willing to sell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bloomberg reports that hopeful buyers in mainland China will have to wait to buy the new iPad, however, despite the irony that millions of the devices are already in China<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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