It's an iPad!!! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 07:30:15 pm
content: Someone brought me to check a new iPad that wasn't charging. I opened the box took it to my hands and after about 30 seconds I slammed it with force to the floor. The guy went bananas for a minute or so.At least the charger is somewhat safe.Alexander.

author: ftransform
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 07:33:45 pm
content: LMFAO

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 07:38:54 pm
content: Two fakes for the price of oneWhere did he buy that junk?

author: PA0PBZ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 07:40:51 pm
content: Yeah come on, give us the rest of the story! Where did he buy that, what did he pay, how does he feel now?

author: Otatiaro
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 07:42:21 pm
content: That's really an iPad, just stripped of some unuseful stuff ...Probably as powerful as the real oneThomas.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 07:47:47 pm
content: He bought it on a highway car station (with restaurants e.t.c.), from a random guy. About 70 USD. He knew it was not an iPad. He thought though it was arealtablet with Android or something. Just an iPad imitation.I really cant describe his face when I slammed it. I don't believe he is very upset at the end. We had a good laugh.Alexander.

author: jancumps
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 08:13:25 pm
content: I see your face in photo #5.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 08:21:04 pm
content: Do you see something you like?Alexander.

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 08:27:55 pm
content: post of the week damnthats keeing it fake, really fake

author: lewis
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 08:36:03 pm
content: I'm not gonna say it's more useful than the real thing, but at least it's more useful than the real thing... I want one!

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 09:05:30 pm
content: first the P-P-P-Powerbook and now this!! damn you apple!

author: JoannaK
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 02:10:41 am
content: Highway robbery ...

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 02:22:24 am
content: Quote from: firewalker on January 11, 2013, 07:47:47 pmAh, the old highway road stop con.I had one of those once at a highway stop in England. Two guys in a car pulled up in the restaurant parking area and offered me a top brand analog watch (TAG or something) very cheap. Said they were dealers on their way back from a watch show or whatever, and had one spare they wanted to swap for "beer money".They had mags to show you the expensive ads for the watch etc, receipts, warranty docs, the full case etc, and let me fondle it all I wanted.The one I handled was almost certainly genuine, and that's part of the con.The con is when you handover your money, they do a slight of hand (by virtue of "we'll put it in the box for you") and they give you the fake (which may or may not work). Once you realise you've been had, they are long gone.Dead giveaway when they are still in their car, lined up with the freeway exit rampDave.

author: DylanM
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 02:34:18 am
content: Reminds me of this:http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/chinese-fake-hard-drive.htmlWhat is the world coming to..

author: ftransform
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 03:20:18 am
content: My dad once got a VCR case filled with bricks lol.

author: reagle
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 04:02:56 am
content: I do wonder- did the actually mold that case with those dividers to hold the weights? Pretty serious operation going on!

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 05:21:32 am
content: That has to be a serious operation... The molds alone for the case, the screen printed front glass, the mass produced circuit board....To recup the cost of the mold alone they'd have to sell a few thousand of these... Makes you wonder how many suckers are out there ?

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 06:03:09 am
content: BTW. The circuit was a time delay off for the led. Just to light the Apple logo for a couple of seconds.Alexander.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 06:14:23 am
content: Looks like they cut out a transparency for the logo, along with a black painted piece of ordinary glass for the front. The switch looks like the "Try me" button control from a set of christmas lights, along with salvaged cells to power it. Probably all made from recycled stuff at a electronics waste yard.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 07:43:11 am
content: hey thats a nice project enclosures i want one! i'm sure we can negotiate the price.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 11:15:51 am
content: He didn't even notice the lack of... tablet-ness? I'm pretty sure I could tell apart a real piece of electronics, even if it's not a real iPad, from an iPad-shaped flashlight.Quote from: Mechatrommer on January 12, 2013, 07:43:11 amLook on the bright (no pun intended) side, you now have a rather bright LED lightpanel, iPad-style project case, and other miscellaneous giblets.Quote from: free_electronhttp://www.amazon.com/Fake-Dummy-Working-White-Ipad/dp/B004ZSHFCE(stupidly they left out one very important word from that link...)

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 12:36:36 pm
content: so its $30 amazon price? i believe $70 is reasonable considering additional charger package, transportation cost and some money for the seller to buy food. whats wrong is the OP smashed the toy to the floor! run!

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 02:28:10 pm
content: so something like a 555

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 03:06:26 pm
content: Actually the quality of the ones for Exhibit Display is phenomenal in comparison with the one brought to me. It couldn't worth more than 5 USD. By holding it you can fell it's a really really crappy plastic.Alexander.

author: tbbw
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 06:32:57 am
content: I can actualy see that as an upgrade to the original( Obviusly not an apple fan )

author: saturation
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 12:40:16 pm
content: Its impressive they go through quite a bit to make these. Manufacturing in toto must be so dirt cheap its worth their while, because I presume it also comes with some packaging too.I'm sure the sellers or distributors know they are not even counterfeit, but props, because they would have to buy them from the maker first, if not there are many more victims down the line.

author: rr100
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2013, 05:33:30 am
content: Nice.At least you can fully use it without installing some proprietary POS like itunes.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2013, 06:06:27 pm
content: I once got caught with fake paint. I was trying to get a job out and ran out of black paint so headed out to the car to get some from the wholesalers to be greeted by two men in a van in the yard, they claimed to painting contractors who had just finished a job on the adjacent RAF base, and they just happened to have a few 5 liter tins of black paint and some grey primer, as I was in a rush to get the job done I foolishly purchased two tins of each. The cans were labeled DuPont and a number nothing else and looking inside the tins and sniffing every thing appeared fine, the grey primer was good dried in twenty minuets but when I came to use the black it did not dry as fast it was not dry the next day so I had to wash all the paint off and get some more of what I normally used, as a trial I painted a sheet of steel with the black, it was not dry after a week it never dried it always remained slimy it was the paint used on drain pipes etc to prevent climbing.