Man Buys MacBook Pro, Gets Brick Instead

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How would you like to buy a new laptop only to get home and find a brick in the package instead of a PC. This has to be the oldest trick in the book…if you are buying something out of the back of a van. :(
 
How dare he question what Steve Jobs put into Apple boxes? If he gets a brick, then that's what he gets! Now shut up and boot it up!
 
Shouldn't have bought an apple, they've been known to brick. ;)
All kidding aside, I wouldn't expect much from bestbuy. Never have had any luck with their customer service.
 
The brick might be a piece of SJ's mansion he wants to demolish.
 
This is why you should open the package in front of the employees after purchasing to make sure you get what you pay for. Thus, they can't say that you stole the laptop and replaced it with a brick if you do so. At least spot check the product before leaving when purchasing something ridiculously expensive like a Mac.
 
If the brick had an Apple logo on it I know people that would have bought it just for that reason.

Apple could put a terd in a box with the Apple logo on it and people would still buy it.

But as in the comments on consumerist say, the number one rule of buying an electronic device at a retail store is to open it right then and there after paying for it.

And Worst Buy has more of these types of stories than one could count. Remember the family that bought a Sony camcorder for Christmas and got a red brick instead? Heck, I was in line at the customer service counter at Worst Buy one time and a guy said he bought a DVD player and got it home and there was a VCR in the box instead. He had to call the cops to get his VCR back from the Worst Buy CSR.
 
they should just put everything in one of thoe razer shape plastic shells then there is no way this could happen.

Can't reseal one of those things and you can find out who did it by the cuts all over their hands.
 
Thats the new iBrick. Its used to break Windows and prop open doors. The upgrade that will come out soon after its offical release will allow iBrick to be use as a boat ancor and will allow you to draw messages on the iBrick with a specialized iChalk. iMortar is expected out late 4Q 2009 and will allow you to attach several iBricks together to create iWall.
 
I've heard this new iBrick model can send MMSes as well as iphones when orginally released :D

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On topic - if you don't check what's in the package you deserve to be screwed.
 
And he didn't even get a reinstall disc. Now that just ain't right.
 
I agree with the previous posters..... i would rather have the brick!

The brick is far more useful, and can even be used for work related tasks(unlike the Mac).... I would use the brick as a negotiating tool at my next departmental meeting.
 
If he wanted a brick all he had to do was go to best buy and pick up HP laptop...it's just as heavy and 3 times as useless
 
Gets brick instead? Is he surprised??! Oh wait, you meant someone put a real stone brick in there.... ahhh crap, I thought that they meant the powerbook....


*dons flame suit*
 
Rudager said:
If he wanted a brick all he had to do was go to best buy and pick up HP laptop...it's just as heavy and 3 times as useless
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My HP Business Notebook 6710b disagrees with you.
 
Wait wait wait, no one over react. Let's boot it up and see what happens
 
He wanted a computer that can destroy Windows, and this was the only option Apple has available. ;)

Perhaps the complaint was filed because it was not white?
 
Are you sure that it isn't some kind of Apple marketing trial? I mean maybe they will start selling even more useless things then macs? People will be excited because it's from Apple. They should have made the brick white, charged 2x as much as the normal red brick, and made it so only Apple licensed building materials can be used with it.
 
I think the only thing that would have topped this is there was an Apple logo cut into the top of the brick....
 
Maybe it's a symbol for how Apple bricks hardware that tries to put a Mac OS on them... wait... no it doesn't..... YET!
 
haadij404 said:
what if hes lying and put the brick in himself so can get a free laptop?

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It's a very tricky situation. It's very hard to prove that you weren't the one who replaced the laptop with a brick, and the store will assume you're a criminal (just like record labels, game publishers etc assume all paying customers are criminals).

The best way to avoid it is probably to always open the box in the store so everyone can see what's inside before you leave.
 
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