Wooden iPad 2 sold for £110 to woman in McDonald's car park

Ashley McDowell, 22, thought she had picked up the bargain of the century with an iPad 2 for $180 (£110) - unfortunately, she later found out she'd actually shelled out for a painted plank of wood.

Ms McDowell was approached by two men in a McDonald's car park in Spartanburg, South Carolina, who claimed to have bought the cutting-edge Apple tablets at a knock-down price.

A US woman was sold a fake wooden iPad in a McDonald's car park

They showed Ms McDowell a brand new iPad as a show of good faith and even knocked $120 off the original price they quoted her of $300, well below the listed price for the gadget.

The duo then carried a Fed-Ex box to her car and she handed over her money without checking its contents, only to find she had been sold a piece of wood, with an Apple logo on the back.

It was also framed with black tape and had pasted icons for the California-based firm's web browser Safari, an email inbox and an iPhoto icon.

The duo even mocked up a fake Best Buy receipt for the iPad.

Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office Lieutenant Tony Ivey said while the department has seen a rise in scams involving items bought from craigslist or eBay, this is the first it has heard about iPads being sold from a vehicle.

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"Wooden it work?"

"What a plank"

Taken from the comments in the link. Made me laugh.

In this case, the sellers should be awarded and the buyer made public including photo - and denied of proliferation.

She'll get the same amount of utility out of both so . . . did it really matter?

She probably turned the wooden burgers down... Since she already had bought burgers in McD's

Hey, It's actually an aPad... It just needs an azz to activate the Pad controls...LOL

I can see how she thought she was getting a bargain, seeing as how "poplar" these devices are ;-p