AN APPLE MacBook Air notebook computer, offered on eBay by a seller in Perth for just $599 - $500 less than the list price - was the bargain of the year, thought Tony Thomas, Melbourne journalist and Mac enthusiast, as he hit the ''buy now'' button.
The computer, shown on the eBay site to have an illuminated Apple logo on its lid and Apple's MacBook Air livery on its packaging, was, in fact, a fake. It ran not Apple's Mac OS X operating system but Microsoft's Windows.
''I was in Perth on my way home from Africa when I saw the MacBook Air on eBay,'' Thomas says. ''I snapped it up straight away, sure I had a wonderful bargain. I even emailed the seller, identified as Jake Gill at 'oz-sh0p' in the Perth suburb of Balga, suggesting I cab out to his place with the cash so I could take the machine home next day. He replied that it wasn't convenient and insisted I pay through PayPal.
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