A vintage Apple employee badge on eBay was proven to be a brazen forgery — but not in time to prevent it being bought.

The fake employee badge as advertised on eBay

The fake employee badge as advertised on eBay
This isn’t the first time that someone has sold a fake related to Apple, but usually it’s hardware. Now an eBay seller auctioned off what he or she described as Steve Jobs‘s badge, but was for Sherry Livingston, employee #10 — or rather, it wasn’t.
It was first spotted by Mastodon user Eric Vitiello, who initially believed the eBay listing. However, the details of the badge and of the accompanying hand-drawn map of Apple’s office layout were then debunked.
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