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US woman fooled by car park Apple sellers
AN OPTIMISTIC US shopper has been taken for a fool by a couple of charlatans and conned into buying a fake Ipad in a car park.
The shopper was lulled by low prices into purchasing the Ipad from two shady gentlemen but soon found that her bargain was anything but, and on opening the packaging found a rather unglamourous piece of wood, according to a crime report released on the Smoking Gun web site.
The chunk of wood has an Apple logo on it as well as some icons, and as far as we know does not run Flash and does not feature USB inputs, but there the similarities between it and an Ipad end. Understandably, perhaps, the shopper was disappointed.
Ashley McDowell, 22, purchased the item in a McDonalds car park, having been told by two passing burger chompers that when not eating fast food they were buying lots of expensive hardware and selling it at low prices.
Perhaps flushed with a milkshake, or just particularly trustworthy, McDowell took them at their word and bought one of their items. As we know, this turned out to be a cut off piece of tree.
The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office has released a photo of the tablet, in case anyone wants to use it as a comparison when Ipad shopping, and informs us that the men drove off in a white Chevy Impala. So please, keep those eyes peeled. µ
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At least she didn't get soaked for as much money as those that paid for the real ones did.
A sucker is born every minute, so they say. This doesn't fit the typical aPPLE user though, as their profile is the usual more money than sense, and would have no rEASON to buy an eye-PAD at cut-PRICE.
Anyway you spell it it's still garbage!
Antiriad beat me to it! I was just about to ask if this iWood ran Linux. :-D
it seems hacker community has ran successfully a limited version of android on this wooden ipad ;)
Nobody said those who purchase Apple products were smart.
new eco version that is made out of a new eco friendly and innovative material.... iwood.
In term of being ripped off, there's no difference really though is there from buying an overpriced original tablet!
It's not an Ipad or an iPad..it's an iLog!!
"Trusting", not "trustworthy". Though, I suppose she's also not trustworthy if she's that stupidly trusting.
And, it's "iPad", not "Ipad".
Of course the woman in question surely must have thought that these 2 'gentlemen' were really thieves trying to get rid of their contra-band.
In the end it turned out that they WERE indeed thieves but she was the one getting stolen from. I wouldn't call her 'particularly trustworthy' but just another opportunist trying to commit the perfect crime (buying stolen stuff is indeed illegal... but who asks, right ?). So no pity here. Got what was coming to her.