iPad mini Will best buy return a defective iPad mini?

so two days into using my lovely white ipad mini 16gb wifi just as i was cozying up to it (non-retina) and continuously being enthralled with the small and light design... and all of a sudden i see this glitchy pattern on Safari and then screen fades to black like its going to respring, except I see no apple logo.

I tried a hard reset, tried plugging it into the wall, siri will work if i hold down the home button but the screen just illuminates

i think the LCD fried itself somehow.

I dont want to do a genius bar swap because i just got it, not long enough to assess whether to keep or not.

And people will think I'm trolling but here's a pic :


going to get there at midnight, hopefully they have more 16 wifis in... but if not, back it goes.

Of course I will.

don't want anyone else having the same problems.

Darn shame though, I just got done talking about how sweet the mini is all night on MR.

Oh well, such is life. Thank goodness I didn't prematurely sell my trust iPad3 in case they dont have more 16 wifi for a while.

Well I know it seems like an obvious question but with iPhones on contracts lots of resellers/retailers refer you to genius bar instead of getting you a swap for new in box :/

Steve was right I gotta hand it to him.... smaller tablets are DOA

Yey, I was very close to giving up and returning it, just thinking between Black Friday and all, no way I'd be getting a new exchange.

But one store just got shipments in, and specifically same model, the 16 wifi white.

Employee didn't want to hold one over the phone for me (maybe BF was getting to him, maybe its policy at Best Buy? but when I got my first one a few days ago it was the last one, first time mini customer, and they held it -- either way, he did me a solid) but I explained I already bought one and it was DOA so that lubed the deal.

...and now restoring from iCloud backup on this device.

knock on wood no issues with this one, finding these things is far and few between let alone twice by random calling.

And using my iPad3 exclusively last night, despite the still amazing and superior retina screen, made me sort of sad I was without my mini.

Apathy is nice IMO when it comes to returns.

There's no reason to take it personally as if you are the one who runs the company.