This story smells a bit fishy, but a Georgia man claims that a local Walmart sold him a fake iPad, and now the store is refusing to give him a refund.
The iPad shown in the video below is obviously one of those fake display models Walmart uses to trick thieves, but how did Ken Lamal end up with this in his box instead of a new authentic iPad? That’s the question. This story just doesn’t sound right though. In the video, the reporter takes it to an Apple tech to confirm that it isn’t the real thing. I mean, come on. You should know better. The tech says that it’s probably a “brick in the box” return, meaning that a customer bought an iPad, then substituted the display model for the real thing and returned it for a refund.
However, Walmart says that all Apple returns are sent back to Apple and are not restocked. So how could that happen? Plus why wouldn’t they make a big deal about checking that return, when they are checking this one so thoroughly?
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Pretty obvious isn’t it?
First customer returns ipad or the box is opened for customer to examine and shop assistant swaps it for a dummy unit.
Shops are not suppose to resell opened goods? But hey in the real world they do (shock horror!)
New customer comes in and is sold box with the dummy in it.
In any case box has details of stolen unit, so Apple’ll brick it.
Overall it works two ways. Yes Stuart (previous comment) is corret in saying that this is possible, that a member of staff at walmart changed it over. You can not discount it as a possibility – I mean, do you think EVRY single person who works in a shop can be trusted 100%? By percentages there are some people who would pull scams. Although you wouldn’t expect to have to check the contents of an item you bought from somewhere like Walmart.
On the other side, there are plenty of people who pull this kind of scam – remove the real item and replace it with a dummy. There’s cases of it everywhere these days.
I coudn’t say which it was, but yes it does sound like a fishy one.
Either that guy is lying or what I think is more likely what happened is that a walmart employee either took it as a return when they were not supposed to and restocked it on the shelve without checking it – or a walmart employee swapped it out and has a nice ipad at home. However the guy just could be making it up – who knows