Apple Branded Mysterious iMeat?
from the how-many-songs-does-it-hold? dept
It looks like someone somewhere in supply chain line supplying Apple iPods to a Wal-Mart in Hawaii wanted to swipe an iPod. Rather than just pocketing the box, though, the person swapped it out with some "mystery meat," making for a rather disappointed 14-year-old on Christmas morning. Walmart claims the box wasn't tampered with, and say it must have happened before they received the box. They have, of course, promised to replace it with a real iPod as soon as they get new ones in stock. And, oh yeah, the meat was "sealed" which probably explains the lack of give-away smell. Of course, this also sounds similar to random scams we've heard about of people pretending that the product they bought wasn't in the box. Update: Boing Boing points to an article saying that a Wal-Mart employee is being blamed for putting meat in a few iPod boxes -- though that article indicates that the recipient of the meat was a 14-year-old girl, while the original article said it was a boy.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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iMeat eh?
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So do you think they will beleive me when I say I bought a car and instead all I got was a dumpster?
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Between the apple warehouse and the delivery company someone had swiped the Nano out of the box.
Apple said they would get back to me on it and I was a little weary but I got my replacemnt in 7 days to it worked out ok
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Happens All the Time
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1. Buy hard-drive
2. Remove from box. Keep.
3. Place rock in box.
4. Shrink-wrap.
5. Go back to store.
6. Greet unsuspecting teenager.
7. Use tech-speak: "The RPM speed on this SATA drive doesn't meet the gigapod standards of my motherboard. I have decided I would like my money back, or a gift card for store credit.
8. Receive money back / store credit.
9. Leave quickly
10. Laugh all the way home.
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Ipod meat
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;)
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Assumes you have an actual Tivo, not a brick.
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So it was an iPod shuffle right?
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A: Your meat will still be good in a week. Your iPod will be three generations old in a week.
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You think thats bad..thats nothing
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