Sell the Apple Watch in Russia caused a scandal

Federal customs service (FCS) conducts an audit on the fact of the beginning of sales in Russia of illegally imported Apple Watch. For example, it is about the emergence of smart watches from Apple in the service "Yandex.Market before the start of official sales of the gadget in our country.

Complaint against online shopping in the service "Yandex.Market in FCS has written to the Association of companies of Internet trade (AKITA). The Association asked the Manager of the FCS Andrei Belyaninov to check the legality of the implementation of the Apple Watch is online shopping, are presented in the results "Yandex.Market.

As informs the newspaper "Kommersant", the Complainants report that to order the product directly via the aggregator, bypassing the web site of a seller, while officially, the implementation of the Apple Watch in Russia has not yet started. "From this we can conclude that "Yandex" profits from the sale of goods imported in violation of the Customs legislation of Russia", - is told in circulation.

In the FCS publication said that on the basis of the received information is organized for the audit, but the results do not comment. In "Yandex", moreover, declared that he had not received complaints from government agencies or Apple, and complaints from followers of the aggregator to cause confusion.

"Commodity aggregators do not conduct independent sales, but only advertise the offers of the online stores. Some aggregators allow consumers the opportunity to order the goods without going to the web site of the Mall, but that doesn't make the party aggregator of sale," announced the publication of the representative of "Yandex" Asya Melkumova.

Remember that Russia was not hit in the first wave of start of sales of smart watches from Apple. In our country the Apple Watch will officially appear until July 31 at 07:01 Moscow time. The watch will be available in several shopping centers of Apple's partners in the Russian Federation, including iPort, Re: Store, C-Store. Besides all this, the device will be sold in the store. With all this official implementation in the world was launched in the spring of 2015. Then the goods originated in the American, European and Asian markets.

Hourly pay starts from 23 990 rubles for the version of Apple Watch Sport. The same model, but with larger dial (42 mm vs 38 mm) will be available for 27 990 rubles. Model Watch can be purchased at cost from 37 to 41 990 990 rubles, and the Apple Watch Edition devices will be available for 660 or 790 thousand rubles based on the configuration.

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