Ipad 2 made of clay????

[keitarosan]

have you heard the news about someone buying an ipad2 from future shop and found modeling clay inside when they opened it?

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/l...20116/20120116


now some con artist bought it then replaced it with a clay, sealed it and returned it to future shop. man... people will do anything to get something without paying these days. is it the economy or we just want to simply get things we WANT for free? i say WANT because ipad is not even a NEED at this point. wow!

[beN]

That's sorta funny, it's a good thing when I opened mine it was a real lol

[thefishwife]

I think its pretty sick myself, just don't get people sometimes.

[tony1928]

Yeah, that is disgusting behaviour. My friend is a manager at Costco and he said back in the day when big screen TV's were really big (pre LCD), they had the same thing happen. People would return the sealed boxes with things like a bag of sand inside or bricks. Kind of silly to think you could get away with it considering you have to have a membership to buy there. Of course, they just played dumb and said they had no idea as they didn't open it. Costco eventually let it go.

[keitarosan]

Yeah, that is disgusting behaviour. My friend is a manager at Costco and he said back in the day when big screen TV's were really big (pre LCD), they had the same thing happen. People would return the sealed boxes with things like a bag of sand inside or bricks. Kind of silly to think you could get away with it considering you have to have a membership to buy there. Of course, they just played dumb and said they had no idea as they didn't open it. Costco eventually let it go.

i like the idea of having easy return/refund we have here but people tend to abuse it. a friend of mine works at walmart and a 15 yr old kid bought a PS3 in the morning and returned it in the afternoon. when they opened the box to examine the returned item (the box was obviously opened), they found an old, dusty and non-working PS3. the boy was obviously an amateur con. but... he was smart enough to take of the serial number on his old PS3. wow! i can't believe a 15 yr old would resort to a thing like that. oh well....

[Jasonator]

I hear the resolution on those aren't as good......

[effox]

Working for them in the service industry I used to see customers AND EMPLOYEES scamming them all the time, so I'm not surprised that he was treated the way he was. It's clear that they'll be opening and verifying returns from this point on (when you do this its no longer considered new in box though, so there will probably be more discounts available at a lesser retail value).

[neven]

effox, i thought their policy was to sell returned unused items as previously owned. But i guess the ipads were just too new and shiny for them to follow their policy.

[effox]

I think the exploit was that the suspects heat shrinked them so it looked like a simple exchange. In that case they aren't sent to service for testing, so I doubt they'd mark the prices down. I don't work at the store though, I only know how my end of things were.

Any exchanges should be opened and examined in my opinion, however that would drop their value, so I'm thinking this is why it occurred.

[cdsgo1974]

i like the idea of having easy return/refund we have here but people tend to abuse it. a friend of mine works at walmart and a 15 yr old kid bought a PS3 in the morning and returned it in the afternoon. when they opened the box to examine the returned item (the box was obviously opened), they found an old, dusty and non-working PS3. the boy was obviously an amateur con. but... he was smart enough to take of the serial number on his old PS3. wow! i can't believe a 15 yr old would resort to a thing like that. oh well....

The kid is probably just the front... I won't be surprise if the dad is the real con man.