Posted on 02/28/2013 11:15:06 PM PST by lowbridge
Massachusetts woman Suzanne Nassie is livid after she says that an iPad she bought at Walmart turned out to be only a piece of plastic painted to look like a real tablet.
Nassie said she knew there was a problem the second she opened the shrink wrapped package, which felt a little light.
The fake so confusing the store even refused her a refund at first before finally relenting.
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Nassie isn't the first Walmart customer to get burned on an iPad purchase at Walmart.
People have reported buying fake devices at stores in New Jersey, Florida, and Texas.
This November, Florida man Emilio Pereda told reporters he purchased a fake iPad from the retail giant for $500.
'There were no red flags,' Pereda said, 'It was completely wrapped with this wrapper from Walmart with your sku number that matches the receipt.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The paint job is not all that bad and the fake iPad is likely a collector’s item and worth more than the $500 she paid.
Sounds like someone at Walmart’s distribution center is swapping random units for the fakes. Probably just doing only one per pallet load so as to not raise flags by having it happen twice in any given store.
I think there’s a guy in Nigeria who will buy this from you, if you just give him your bank account routing number.
“He gave me an IPad!”
I want my Obama-pad.
It is perplexing. I wonder if it originated at the factory. Quality control is a huge issue with Chinese suppliers, and they won’t be the first ones to ship bricks to keep their numbers up. I recently purchased a telescope from Orion, and when it arrived the finder scope was completely missing. I assumed that the factory was short, and rather than delay shipment, they shipped it short. When I called Orion they sent me one priority mail, gratis, without any questions, so I assume they know what’s going on.
That’s a really nice fake. Someone in China must be cranking these out. A hunk of bare plywood would do the job.
No wonder Apple’s profits are so high.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/85286-fake-intel-core-i7-cpu
Reminds me of the fake Intel CPUS that are out there.
I don’t buy this. I think the lady got away with a free ipad.
I am not proposing a requirement for 100% outgoing inspection, there is just no way a brick should have been shipped as a computer. I think someone wasn’t meeting quota, so to make his incentive payments, he stuck a brick into the outgoing product flow.
I know the telescope I ordered from Orion had been on back order, so I strongly suspect someone decided to keep shipments flowing by leaving out an “accessory”. When you look a product reviews from Orion, there is a lot of that going on, people like the item, but it arrived short and Orion customer service quickly fixed the short.
“I don’t buy this. I think the lady got away with a free ipad.”
I’m also wondering what she did with the real one.
My daughter worked at the Computer City customer service for a while. Some guy "returned" a computer he had bought the same day and got a full refund. Later when they inspected the box, it contained an older model obviously used computer. The customer service agent who accepted the return did not take down his name, address and telephone number. Fortunately, my daughter, who was working at the next position noticed it on his drivers license and gave the information to the police. The police chief called the guy and asked him to fix the "misunderstanding". He was down there in no time.
Still, I've had several experiences (like the Orion incident, I mentioned above) where stuff "new out of the box" was defective or missing parts.
At the factory? At Apple’s factory? Ain’t no chance. They are watched as closely as Vegas gaming floor employees.
When I saw the woman in the article, my first thought was “cliche’ English woman”. She just SO looks it.
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