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# Have Fake iPads Landed in the U.S.?
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/have-fake-ipads-landed-in-the-u-s/
- Published: 2010-12-02T06:44:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T06:34:57.000Z
- Description: Several news stories during the year have reported on the inevitable fake iPad flooding the market in China, but it now appears that one version of a counterfeit iPad has appeared in the United States.
- Author: Broadband Breakfast
- Tags: Intellectual Property, Bryan Schlager, Ipad, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-02-01 10:23, #added-preview-divider

Several [news stories](http://www.businessinsider.com/fake-ipads-china-2010-8?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com) during the year have reported on the inevitable fake iPad flooding the market in China, but it now appears that one version of a counterfeit iPad has appeared in the United States.

The local NBC news station in Boston reports [that a father in Dorchester, Massachusetts was duped](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12002887038770/man-claims-local-best-buy-sold-him-fake-ipad/&ref=broadbandbreakfast.com) when he bought an iPad at the Best Buy in Dorchester:

> Last month Shlager paid $830 for an iPad at a Best Buy store in Dorchester. But when he gave it to his son, who is a college freshman in Florida, there was shock and disappointment as they opened the box last week.

> “He couldn’t get it to work, and he was frustrated and threw it in the corner of the room,” said Shlager.  
>  
> No matter how much clicking and swiping they did, the iPad just wouldn’t turn on. There was no power cable in the box, and hardly any instructions.  
>  
> Shlager took it to a Best Buy store in Florida and showed it to the “GeekSquad.”  
>  
> “They looked at it and came back and said, ‘It’s not going to work because it’s fake.’” said Shlager.  
>  
> Shlager then tried to return it at three different Best Buy stores, including the one in Dorchester, but they wouldn’t let him.  
>  
> “They accused me of bringing home a new one and replacing it with a dummy and trying to return a dummy,” said Shlager.

No word yet on whether Shlager’s son was reprimanded for his arrested development as a toddler and throwing his non-functioning present around.