Over the years we have told you countless times that thieves are becoming more and more inventive when it comes to tricking users who are trying to purchase tablets iPad. Although normally in supermarket car parks boxes containing clay are sold instead of iPad tablets, here is the store of a large retailer in the UK managed the same performance. A British man bought what he thought was an iPad tablet from the Tesco retailer during the winter holidays last year, but when he got home he realized that he actually only had a box full of clay.
Businessman Colin Marsh, 47, paid £470 for the Apple tablet as a Christmas treat for his daughters Maddie, 11, and Daisy, eight. Yet on opening the box he discovered the device had been replaced with three lumps of gray clay. He immediately returned to the store for a refund but was reported to the police by suspicious Tesco staff. Two days later Mr Marsh, who runs two bakeries, got a call asking him to report to his local police station where he was held for three hours. He was accused of trying to scam the supermarket and spent two months on bail before being was finally told he faced no further action.
Trying to return the product to the store, he was accused of trying to defraud the store, being arrested by the police and released on bail. After 2 months of investigations, the police managed to discover the fact that the tablet initially present in that box is actually 200 miles away from the city where the man bought the box. The interesting part is that the tablet was registered in his name before he discovered what was inside the box, this motivated the police to arrest him for fraud.
The iPad that should have been in the box was tracked down to Wales more than 200 miles from where Mr Marsh had bought it in Whistable, Kent. Mr Marsh has since got his money back but said Tesco had not properly apologised.
Although the tablet was eventually found, the man did not receive an official apology from the store, although it is clear that one of his employees stole the tablet. More interesting is that it took a year for everything to come to light, but this story should be seen as a warning for those who now purchase products, they should be checked directly in the store.
