Save Money, Live Better, Wal-mart caught selling Apple Knockoff

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15 Nov 2012

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Wal-Mart was caught red-handed for selling knockoffs after a Florida man who purchased an Apple iPad dishing out nearly $ 500 was in shock when he found out the device he just procured from the retail giant was a plastic fake.


A Florida man shelled out nearly $500 for an iPad at a Miami Wal-Mart on Monday, as a birthday gift for his mother-in-law.
But when the woman opened the present on Wednesday, she was shocked to find it was just a plastic fake and not a real electronic device.
Emilio Pereda told WFOR-TV that he had helped his father-in-law purchase the Apple device from the discount retailer.
‘There were no red flags,’ Pereda said, ‘It was completely wrapped with this wrapper from Wal-Mart with your sku number that matches the receipt.’

But when the family gifted the high-priced purchase and his mother-in-law opened it – they were shocked to find out it was a knockoff.
‘When she opened it she was like, ‘what is this joke?” he said.
The fake device looked exactly like the device but it did not have charging ports, working buttons and wouldn’t even turn on.
‘It’s a piece of plastic; it’s not an iPad at all.’
The family struggled to get a response from Wal-Mart but the local TV station reached out to the company’s corporate office.
A Wal-Mart rep, Kayla Whaling, said the customer apparently purchased an iPad that had been returned. They believe the previous owner wrapped a fake device and re-sealed it so perfectly that it looked as if the item hadn’t even been opened.
‘Wal-Mart takes this very seriously and we apologize profusely to the customer,’ she said.
The company said it would refund the money or ensure the customer received a real Apple product.
Daily Mail.