How was your iPads packaging?

Okay, I don't want this thread to sound like another nit-picking thread but it's definitely going to sound that way. I was a little suspicious I had bought a returned product but I was wondering what your iPads packaging was like?

Mine just seemed like it was rushed or perhaps the box had been opened before. A corner of the plastic wrap at the back was folded. There were marks on three of the corners of the iPad. "Marks" may have been a bad way to put it but they were like 1mm sized bits of glue residue or something that I had to wipe off with a damp towel. There were at least four of these.

With all the stories of the amount of iPads being returned, I'm either suspicious or just really nit-picking. I'll choose the latter for now. I guess I'm used to the more pristine packaging of my previous Apple products.

of course, I should mention I bought mine at an Apple store and it was shrink wrapped.


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Just to try to clear up some confusion since most people are either not reading or just misunderstanding me. I'm not talking about the box. When I said "plastic wrap", I was referring to the cellophane wrap on the iPad itself, not the box. When I said there were bits of glue residue, I meant on the iPad itself, not the box.

Well, I knew I was going to get some negative replies but that's fine with me because I understand completely

I'm not even complaining about the iPad itself which seems fine. I should have taken a picture but if you saw the condition it was in when I took it out of the box, you might have been a little suspicious too.

Onemorerun said:

Reimer, I don't think you should be mocked for this post at all. Steve Jobs himself was obbsessed with product packaging. Its something I admired about him. He truly understood that the product experience started with the opening of the box.

I think the people on this board that mock posts such as these don't understand what Apple under the reign of Steve Jobs has really been about. He was making art. At least that is what he wanted to do.

Post such as these are the highest form of praise. There is no other technology product out there that demands such critical critique.

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zigzagg321 said:

OP:

Seriously... if your iPad is fine, worrying about the box is pretty OCD and pointless.

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Honestly, I don't mind being mocked for this thread. I fully admit it was nit-picky but at the same time, it just means I held Apple to a very high standard.

Also, it seems some people either didn't actually read my initial post or just didn't understand it.

I wasn't complaining about the box. I was talking about the condition of the wrapping and the iPad itself. There were quite a few bits and pieces of glue residue on the iPad that I had to wipe off with a damp towel.

You know how sometimes you buy something and you peel off the price tag and there's some residue left behind? Well, that's exactly what was on mine and in several places on the back of the iPad, even behind the plastic wrapping. I was simply suspicious that maybe I had purchased a returned product. That's it. No more, no less.