Speak Farsi At The Apple Store And They Might Say You Can't Buy An iPad

Atlanta’s WSB-TV recently investigated claims by area residents who said their efforts to buy iPhones or iPads were blocked by store staffers who don’t understand what a trade embargo is.

One customer, a 19-year-old college student and U.S. citizen, says she went with her uncle to the Apple store to buy an iPad, where a store employee overheard them speaking a non-English language and asked them about it.

“When we said ‘Farsi, I’m from Iran,’ he said, ‘I just can’t sell this to you. Our countries have bad relations,’” the woman tells WSB.

[…] the 19-year-old woman is a U.S. citizen living in the country, who just happens to also speak the language spoken in a country that is the subject of a trade embargo. This would be like the Apple store refusing to sell to anyone who speaks Spanish because they might have defected from Cuba. And are Apple employees asking every Korean customer whether they were born in North or South Korea?

While it’s probably just a few dumb employees misinterpreting company policy, it’s absolutely incredible to me that this could happen more than once. 

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11 months ago
Posted on June 20th at 6:52 PM
Tagged as: News. Apple. Farsi. Iran. Georgia. Politics.
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    I can’t wait to hear Apple’s response to this.
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    This is also just straight up ridiculous?
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