Clay iPads

Apple customers in Canada are being duped; by a tablet made of clay.

Two Canadian electronic stores; Best Buy and Future Shop are now investigating a scandal involving iPad 2’s. So far as many as ten of the hand held devices recently sold at the stores were discovered to be made out of modeling clay.

A spokesman for Future Shop says thieves are buying the iPad 2, taking out the device and replacing it with clay. And the fake tablets are the same size and shape as the real deal. Then thieves are re-sealing the original Apple package and returning the box to stores for cash. And like most items the returned iPads are returned to shelves only to be purchased by an unsuspecting consumer.

The scam was first brought to the stores attention by Mark Sandhu. He bought an iPad 2 for his wife for Christmas and when they opened the box they found nothing but a slab of clay. Sandhu says when he tried to return it to the store they thought he was trying to scam them. Since then he was given a full refund and a new tablet; one that you can at least turn on.