Woman Buys Wooden iPad

[Jacco]

C'mon now guys. iPad's aren't that bad. I own one. As long as you know what you're doing, they can be useful to an asinine level. Seriously. I've all but replaced my laptop with my iPad and I do some pretty intensive stuff.

OT: She asked for that. It's not exactly rocket science that you should look at something before you lay money down for it.

 

[Aprilgold]

No she got a prototype of the new iPlank. 180 dollars for a product not yet on the market is a steal!

Then, the up and coming ear version, iChip, put it in your ear, and hear all the conversations that aren't going on.

Also, one for the recently broken legged, the iSplint, stick it on your leg and scroll down 10 notches of completely bleed proof web surfing.

 

[Yopaz]

Um... no one seems to be appreciating that it might have been in a box when she got it. She's still not that bright, but... no one deserves to be scammed.

Most mention the box and that she should have asked to see it before she bought it. No-one says she's too stupid to realize it was fake once she actually saw what she had purchased. Most just point out how suspicious it is when someone in a parking lot wants to sell her an iPad for more than 300 less than what it goes for in normal stores.

OT: I love the touch with the apple etched into the piece of wood. It's just there to annoy her and possibly get them a sentence for unlicensed use of a trademark.

 

[duchaked]

hey iPads ain't bad
but yeah no she had it coming...

 

[Yopaz]

No she got a prototype of the new iPlank. 180 dollars for a product not yet on the market is a steal!

iPlank is awesome! You get to build house 40 times as pretentious as normal houses with it. Every time you enter it you get attacked by a cloud of smug. I'd say she got a great deal.

 

[thirion1850]

They carved an apple logo on it? Bloody me, there is a god. I know they're crooks/mean/ect, but that has got to be some of the most clever shit I've heard all week.

 

[Gigano]

180$ doesn't seem like an unreasonable fee for being taught something as important as: Being just a tad critical of strangers selling implausibly cheap hot button goods in parking lots is probably a good idea.

And I suppose she can always put it up for sale as "an artistic tribute linking the materials of the past with the trends of the future", and fool some other idiot into parting with tons of money. Make it pretentious enough, and somebody will - figuratively and literally - buy it.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Here's the thing that everyone's missed out.

The apple logo carved into it actually gives it a retail price of around $180.
They should really just get done for false advertising.

 

[Broken Blade]

As a life-long Apple user, owner of several Apple products, and friends with one of the iPad's designer, as well as being respectful of other people's choices in computers, phones, and other hardware?

My god, woman, you are stupid, you fell for an extremely old trick, and you deserved to get fooled like that. That's absolutely ridiculous. It's like falling for the old long-lost Nigerian prince cousin trick.

 

[UnravThreads]

Um... no one seems to be appreciating that it might have been in a box when she got it. She's still not that bright, but... no one deserves to be scammed.

No-one deserves it, I agree, but she still let herself in for being scammed. If you do stupid things, then you find yourself in situations like this where you're out of pocket and have a lot of egg on your face.

If she was more careful and less air-headed, then perhaps she wouldn't have been so easily scammed.

 

[Caffiene]

Ahahahaha! Its so true. People without much life experience totally deserve to be robbed and taken advantage of!

Wait... no... thats not it. I guess im not a sociopath.

Sure she'll learn a lesson from it. But to say she deserved it? Come on. The same could apply to anyone who doesnt chain their wallet to their belt and gets pickpocketed, or all sorts of scenarios. Being dumb or naive doesnt make it ok to take advantage of someone. At best it makes it 'unsurprising', but thats not even remotely the same.

 

[Mysten]

She should have paid attention to this completely legitimate public service announcement.

 

[Acidwell]

A useless plank with an apple logo on it? Thats pretty much an offical apple product, You see the logo is worth 180 euro itself.

 

[razer17]

Why exactly is this news? This sort of con is pretty old school, and I should imagine it happens everyday.

 

[Calico93]

Well.. someone had to.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

I bet when the police find that guy they are going to be like
"THIS IS SPARTANBURG!" and kick him down a huge hole in the middle of the city...

owait, wrong sparta...

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

I mean, who wants an overpriced novelty like the iPad anyway?

Would make a nice cutting board.

OT: Don't really know if "deserved" is the word i'd use, just not very bright.

Sure, i've bought a mystery box before. Boxes that don't cost more than a couple bucks since it's mostly just random, useless things in them, but it's been when they were sold for good causes, so...

Buying a mystery box in a parking lot for 180 dollars is basically what she did and that just symbols great stupidity.

 

[MarcusD357]

Spartanburg.. Sounds like an awesome place to live :L

OT: She's probably better off with the wooden version, at least it's a little more hardy. The iPad's only good for carrying drinks on anyway, it's really just a glorified tray.

 

[the_green_dragon]

Unfortunately people buy counterfeit goods all the time, or succumb to other scams that are too good to be true. If it didn't work, people wouldn't constantly try such outrageously obvious swindles like this, but it has worked and will continue to work.

Kind of like how there were thousands of counterfeit PAX Prime badges sold to folks this last weekend, by guys standing out in the street, right in front of the convention center, for a show that had been sold out for months.

Wouldn't everyone going to PAX already have their ticket?

 

[LogicNProportion]

I was surprised...until I saw the words 'South Carolina.'

And then EVERYTHING became clear.

...With that said...

*Headdesk*