If i were you dude i definitely wouldn't meet anyone alone or meet them at your home address. I'm sure that's probably being overly precautions, but the fact that it was an unknown number seems kinda shady.
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Fake / Prototype Macbook Air
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They are negotiating your trade I bet. He needs clearance to give away a new one. Make sure you walk it to the store. At this point, calls with no caller-ID might not be Apple. If they want it, they take possession at the store so you can be guaranteed they are really Apple.
I expect it to be friendly. It's too high-profile already for Apple to go into attack mode over something like this. It's nothing more than a bum prototype. Sure, the labs might want it back, but they aren't going to make themselves look bad to get it back.
Remember how Microsoft went into "kill-death mode" over the kid who used MikeRoweSoft.com? In the end they looks like such *ssholes that they flew the kid to Redmond, made him an official developer, gave him an XBox and a crapload of games, etc just to make up for it.
I feel sorry for Brett all he wanted was a working Air for his girlfriend, who know this would explode like this?
Wow, Just One MacBook Can Turn Crazy
I am amazed that one average person decided to buy a MacBook Air off of eBay, and now he is one of the most famous people on the web.
A lot can happen when you pst a picture of the inside of your machine.
I am amazed that one average person decided to buy a MacBook Air off of eBay, and now he is one of the most famous people on the web.
A lot can happen when you pst a picture of the inside of your machine.
So you're saying I can open up my MacBook and take a picture to be famous on teh interwebs?
No, It has to be a rare post 1998 model. By "rare", I mean never released to the general public, like Brett's prototype MacBook Air.
not if it looks like every other mac
Darn. I still want to use the thing, so I guess I'll have to avoid setting it on fire or otherwise marring the components.
To the OP: Hopefully the call is something positive, but I have a hunch it might be a prank. Or worse.
It's like a good movie. People always root for the underdog. What's gonna happen? How's it going to turn out?
It's the best movie I've seen in ages.
If it is indeed apple, make sure that you meet with them at an Apple Retail Store and you see their apple ID card, along with approval from the manager on duty. (Even though, he may trick the AS into believing he's from corporate, if he calls ahead and has an apple staff shirt... just be verrrrryyyy cautious. Especially since this has been front-page on many sites)
+1, and update on this would be awesome. Apple SWAT may have already moved in.
wow
hi,
as long as you paid for it , you can ask them to give you $ 10k cash and no one will take it from you ,
also don't meet anyone anywhere under no circumstances and if you have to do so go to their store and have a lawyer go with you,
i hope you can get some cash out of this and also some macbooks
hi,
as long as you paid for it , you can ask them to give you $ 10k cash and no one will take it from you ,
also don't meet anyone anywhere under no circumstances and if you have to do so go to their store and have a lawyer go with you,
i hope you can get some cash out of this and also some macbooks
I didn't get the call back in the promised amount of time, which leads me to think that the initial call fraudulent.
Since I have gotten permission from someone at Apple to actually sell the item, I have now listed it on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200278121944
Brett
Since I have gotten permission from someone at Apple to actually sell the item, I have now listed it on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200278121944
Brett
