Woman scammed into buying block of wood with Apple logo sold as an iPad

Lets see, you walk out of mcdanolds, two guys OUT OF THE BLUE approach you, and ask if you would like to buy an ipad for HALF the price... sorry but you DESERVE to get scammed. it says SCAM all over it. i would of ATLEAST opened the box and took it out and tried it out atleast!!! sorry but i dont feel abit sorry for people who get screwed like this.

EDIT: oh yea and the gold tooth, common, THAT ATLEAST would of threw up a HUGE red flag lol

maybe shes a blonde lol

Originally posted by Hyasuma:

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maybe shes a blonde lol

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that's why you don't trust boxes. you may just see a piece of cardboard folded by kids in a sweatshop, but i see a contraption that attempts to hide its content of those so eager to buy into it.

Well I've always heard never accept wooden nickles, guess that needs to be updated to not accept wooden iPads :)

Originally posted by Hyasuma:

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maybe shes a blonde lol

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Originally posted by SomeBozo:

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Well I've always heard never accept wooden nickles, guess that needs to be updated to not accept wooden iPads :)

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I once bought a fake gold chain in Detroit for $20. I still get a queezy feeling about it 20 years later. But this would be just cause for some real whoop ass. lol

LoL...people really will buy anything with an apple logo on it!

Something smells like total BS regarding this story. I would prefer to think it's a made-up story or that she's lying about it happening for some odd reason than to think ANYONE could be that incredibly stupid.

Originally posted by xnonsuchx:

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Something smells like total BS regarding this story. I would prefer to think it's a made-up story or that she's lying about it happening for some odd reason than to think ANYONE could be that incredibly stupid.

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South Carolina.. So not surprised.

With that stupidity, she deserved it.

lmao at the stupidity of this woman.1st thing you should do when people (dodgy looking people) approach you in a carpark trying to sell you something is pretend you have no money.

Be the day I buy something from someone in a parking lot I have never seen before and not open the item up until I get home let alone give them my money first. This lady did not deserve to be duped out of her money but if she would have just checked this would not have happened. Also it's just a good idea not to buy something in a parking lot, a lot of scams happen in a parking lot. For people wondering if this actually does happen out of the blue yes, yes it does. Just search for white van speakers and you will find a lot of people getting scammed in parking lots.

Originally posted by KillerBug:

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Originally posted by xnonsuchx:

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Something smells like total BS regarding this story. I would prefer to think it's a made-up story or that she's lying about it happening for some odd reason than to think ANYONE could be that incredibly stupid.

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Given apple sales, it is very easy to believe that people are braindead. I am just amazed they bothered to make an ipad lookalike; they could have just filled the box with gravel or something.

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A 22-year old woman was approached by two men in a parking lot!? Thank heavens $180 is all they took from her. The men could have easily pulled her into their vehicle to do worse.

I dont know what she is complaining about... she is a proud owner of a brand new iWood... the step up from the iBrick. And got a good deal on it. The apple logo alone is worth the $180 that she paid.
kidding aside, if I was actually silly enough to buy an iWood, I definitely would not be making a public announcement about it (such as news or afterdawn or anywhere). She screwed up, no need to rub it in to the world how silly you are...4321gmb

Now the best thing for her is to try and get as much publicity as she can get out of this and then try and sell it on Ebay and hope some jerk shells out a hefty amount for her iWood!

She should be jailed for her own protection...What a moron!

Woulda been funny if they charged her with attempting to buy stolen goods. If it were real that would be the only way she coulda got it for $180...

Update to the story...
Apple is suing the girl for position of stolen property. Apparently this was a prototype for the new iPad3.

When something appears to be too good to be true......?

The iwood could still be used as an artwork.

lol, nicely crafted tho..

This reminds me of Christmas 1981. Outside Fayetteville, AR there was a crew selling camcorders all factory sealed in real boxes from the back of a truck. When the lucky buyers got home and opened their purchase, the camcorder was a rock, no logos.

I have an iphone 5 she might be interested in !