SINGAPORE, Oct. 22 -- Expecting a new pair of AirPods, a Shopee customer was instead greeted by rows of staples when she opened the box delivered to her doorstep.

In a TikTok post on Tuesday (October 20), user momo043522 shared how she had purchased a pair of AirPods from Shopee Mall's Apple Flagship Store, which claims to be an authorised Apple reseller with over 186,000 followers.

However, she was horrified to find stapler bullets in place of earphones inside the box she received.

"Where is my AirPods?" wrote momo043522 in her post, addressing Shopee.

The customer, identified only as Hu, told Stomp that she had ordered the AirPods on October 17 at 8.23pm for S$254 (RM812) on Shopee, after applying vouchers and the platform's reward ...