Unlike the various stores around China that sold fake knock-offs of Apple, these stores were selling genuine Apple kit, but were not “authorised resellers”. Yu Cheng, who owns three stores such stores claims to be “doing Apple a favor” and has tried becoming authorised but with no luck from Cupertino. Actual authorised resellers obviously do not share Cheng’s view and claim that such stores “have a negative impact on our products and brands.”