If the “iPod wild sellers” phenomenon in Paris' streets has decreased significantly, it does not really matter since one can find now iPod nano clones in shops in Andorra as reported by Jordi.
While I was in a large Andorran shop yesterday, I spotted an iPod nano on sale. When looking closer, for 75€, it was of course not a real iPod nano.
It was difficult to consider it as a counterfeit, the box being pink; but it was placed in the middle of official third parties iPod accessories; probably to foul customers.
I, of course, requested to have a look at this iPod nano clone. It was 2 to 3 millimeter thicker than the original one, and its storage capacity was either 512MB or 1GB.
the back of this MP3 player has also an "Alu style" as the original nano, and featured a "Made in China" label :)
On the description label, it is described as a MP3/MP4 player with additional features such as: radio, photo, video, voice recorder and video games.
While I was looking at it, a little girl was passing by and showed the iPod nano clone I was looking at and mentioned to her mother: “Mom, that's the one I want".
If customers are not aware of counterfeit or fakes, it is really difficult to be able to discriminate between the copy and the original.
Apparently everything is done in order to maintain the confusion between all those iPod nano clones and the original model. Of course the idea of placing such an iPod nano fake in the middle of true iPod third parties accessories is particularly mean.
