Dubai shopper baffled as Apple AirPods bigger than her head arrive from Amazon

The woman claims she thought she was buying cut-price earbuds – they turned out to be props the size of a shower head

A woman in Dubai was shocked to receive a massive pair of fake Apple AirPods after buying them on Amazon. @Al333zay

A shopper from Dubai said she was baffled when a pair of fake Apple AirPods larger than her head arrived from Amazon.

The woman, called Aleezay, claimed she ordered what she thought were cut-price AirPods for Dh230.

She posted photos of the massive comedy props on Twitter.

Apple's in-ear Bluetooth ear buds have become a fashion statement they were released in 2016.

But fakes are often sold online for a fraction of the usual price of about Dh670.

Although Aleezay said she expected the pods to be fake due to the knockdown price, she claimed to have no idea they would be supersized.

Since sharing an image of the AirPods last week, her post has been liked more than 385,000 times, with almost 73,000 retweets.

Last year, a 17-year-year-old American high school pupil named Aaron Beckman made headlines when he created a 25-centimetre tall speaker in the shape of an AirPod using a 3D printer.

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The rarest Apple product collection in the Middle East

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  Jimmy Grewal sits in front of the incredibly rare Apple I, the first personal computer sold by Apple in 1976. Cody Combs / The National

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  Apple's first attempt at a laptop, the Macintosh Portable, from 1989. It weighed 7 kilograms, but its battery lasted from 6 to 12 hours. Cody Combs / The National

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  Left to right: Apple I, Apple II, Apple Lisa, Macintosh 512k. Cody Combs / The National

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  A closeup of one of the first Macintosh models. Cody Combs / The National

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  This Apple II (serial #92) has no vents on the casing, making it very rare, unlike the Apple II on the left. Grewal says only approximately a dozen of these ventless Apple IIs remain in existence. Cody Combs / The National

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  This Apple II was purchased by the American School of Dubai in 1978. Cody Combs / The National

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  This sticker, complete with typo, shows just how old this Apple II is. Cody Combs / The National

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  The original 128k Macintosh sits on the top left of this portion of Grewal's Apple Collection. Also pictured just below is the 20th Anniversary Macintosh. Cody Combs / The National

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  Grewal's collection is still growing, prompting him to move computers to different locatins to make room. Cody Combs / The National

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  Some of Apple's first attempts at "tower" Macintosh computers, like the Macintohs Quadra, are also in Grewal's collection. Cody Combs / The National

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  No detail was too small for Grewal in presenting his the Apple products. These cabinets were colour matched to correspond with the original rainbow Apple logo. Cody Combs / The National

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  Grewal's collection of Apple laptops, ranging from the Apple Duo to the Apple PowerBooks continues to grow. Cody Combs / The National

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  This unusually large Apple product is a rare Apple Network Server. These ran a Unix-based operating system. Cody Combs / The National

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  The first Apple LaserWriter, manufactured in 1985, is one of several Apple printers in Grewal's collection. Cody Combs / The National

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  This Apple Scribe printer utilized special thermal paper. The quality was poor and the printing was slow, but the thermal paper was an innovative idea at the time. Cody Combs / The National

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  Also in Grewal's collection is an Apple Interactive Television Box from 1994. It was never released. Cody Combs / The National

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  It's not technically an Apple product, but this NeXT Cube was the computer created by Steve Jobs' company, "Next", after he was fired from Apple in 1985. It's shaped almost perfectly like a cube, was very powerful, but sold poorly. Cody Combs / The National

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  In Grewal's other office, Apple product cases are used to prop up a coffee table, and various Apple artefacts and photos are displayed on the wall. Cody Combs / The National

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  This is a rarely used early rendition of the Apple logo. It's signed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and the often forgotten co-founder Ron Wayne. Cody Combs / The National

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  Inside this original Macintosh 128k, you can see the molded signatures from the original Macintosh team, including the signature of Steve Jobs. Cody Combs / The National

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  An Apple Dot Matrix Printer, first introduced in 1982. Cody Combs / The National

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  This rare Apple I was the first product shipped by Apple in 1976. This particular Apple I in Grewal's Dubai collection still works. Cody Combs / The National

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  This is an original Apple Lisa in Grewal's Dubai collection. It was the first Apple computer to have a graphical user interface. Grewal says approximately 20 of the original Lisa computers remain in the world. Cody Combs / The National