If I was a Foxconn intern I would have stolen this iPad mini shell and sold it for $6k!


An enterprising Foxconn worker has managed to smuggle the rear shell of an iPad mini out a Foxconn factory and sold it on for a very healthy sum of cash!

After heating news that Chinese interns at one Foxconn factory were ‘forced’ to work to manufacture iPhone 5’s I would like to personally like to meet the brave sole who liberated this iPad mini shell and sold it on for almost $6000!

According to rumors over at Chinese site digi163.com one rather unhappy Foxconn worker decided enough was enough and stole a rear casing for the new iPad mini and decided to market it off to the highest bidder!

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That highest bidder being a Shenzhen based OEM for phone and tablet cases who paid the princely some of 38,000 Yuan which converts to about $5990!

While this is basically a story of theft I can’t help but root for this daring burglar after hearing so many terrible reports of Foxconn treating workers at their iPhone and iPad manufacturing facilities!

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What do you guy’s think? Is this just another shady crook, or is this a modern day Robin Hood getting their own back at Foxconn and Apple?

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5 Comments

  1. ivan
    September 7, 2012

    I really wonder what the buyer use the case for? it is surely not pretty to be a wall decoration.

  2. Metty
    September 7, 2012

    No logo… That would be worth what… £10?

  3. Nat
    September 7, 2012

    The buyer should release a fake iPad Mini before the launch and patent it before apple 😛

  4. Freeje
    September 7, 2012

    Foxconn must be having fits now.

  5. mike
    September 8, 2012

    Look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk-xqPKOxl4, there are so many applicants for Foxconn jobs, seriously doubt this internship story is true.