Funny trick I once pulled on Apple... Around 2018, my 2014 Air broke down and I took it to a local guy for a logic board replacement. This guy was quick but he

Funny trick I once pulled on Apple... Around 2018, my 2014 Air broke down and I took it to a local guy for a logic board replacement. This guy was quick but he worked sitting on the floor of an empty house full of spare computer parts and needed to rummage or buy until he could fix it. Still, I really needed to continue the work I was doing that day, so, I drove to the Apple Store and bought a new Air, knowing they have a 30 day return policy. Went back to my repair dude and we swapped my hard drive into the new Air. I went home and worked on it for a couple days and he called and said he got the board, just need to come back and swap the drives. So, drives swapped, 2014 upgraded to a core i7, I moseyed back to the Apple store to return my barely used 2018 laptop. No problemo, said the lady, just gotta scan the serial number off the bottom. Then she got a funny look on her face. "This isn't ah..." and before I could even ask, two security guys were standing next to her. Suddenly, I realized what had happened. The repair guy had switched the base with my old one. I made some excuse that I must've grabbed the wrong laptop from the office, took it back and ran out. About an hour later I walked into the same Apple store with the same "never booted" computer (it was a completely fresh hard drive, after all - they could see that) with the original base and serial number on it. Before I even walked in, security was tailing me (facial recognition)... but although they knew something was askew, they couldn't tell what, and they graciously took the laptop back for a full refund.