Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30...
by wrong_variable on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @08:40PM
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Yes, this is fairly common in all of South Asia.
The way to get around this is to look poor and be brown/black. Whenever I go back:
1) I buy a local school bag back ( put my expensive laptop and phone in it )
2) wear wife beater that is slight dirty.
3) do not shave.
4) speak only in Hindi.
5) wear only chapal ( bathroom style )
7) let your hair grow and do not comb.
Once you look poor enuf - no one will disturb you.
Since my job is programming - I really do not need to look presentable since people know who I am. But I do feel sorry for anyone who needs to wear a suit.
Unfortunately the only way you be be rich in public is if you have a bunch of body guards.
Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30...
by RealGeek on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @08:58PM
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These tips usually don't help in India. If you look poor and nobody, the police could even beat you up for no reason.
If you look and act rich & influential, then police and Government officials play nice with you.
Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30...
by walrus01 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:19PM
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so, you're screwed either way? or you should try to look middle class and neither rich nor poor?
I told them that all taxes were paid including VAT and Octroi for the computer when I bought it 5 years ago.
The said it doesn't matter, I must stop at the Octroi office and pay taxes again every time I am crossing a state border for everything I am carrying in my vehicle.
He said my only option is to pay them bribe, or they will impound my vehicle indefinitely.