“Well, she said she was buying the iPad for a cousin in Iran.”
She has the right to buy for herself but if she wants to send a gift, that’s a job for US Customs, not the Apple Store.
I recall a Barney Miller episode where a Russian was caught smuggling EEPROMS that he said were for “Video Games”.
If you sale an item to a customer after they have said they are sending it to a country on the sanctions list, both you and your employer may be held liable for export violations by the US government.
The above statement comes from training I receive from my employer twice yearly. The Apple employee acted according to US law.
[ “Well, she said she was buying the iPad for a cousin in Iran.”
She has the right to buy for herself but if she wants to send a gift, that’s a job for US Customs, not the Apple Store. ]
She was an idiot for not buying it from some place online and then shipping it over herself...
If she had kept her mouth shut, she could have done just that. But she stated her intentions, Apple was then required to deny the sale as they cannot knowingly sell to someone who will violate export laws.