The latest news: We’ve heard Apple has beggun giving customers a $50 credit. May want to get Apple on the horn.

We’ve been getting a steady stream of news since we broke the Verizon iPad 2 recall news late last night.  We initially postulated that the recall may have been due to FedEx glitches or issues with engraving since most of the people in the discussions had both of those in common.  However, we’re now hearing that Apple Store employees are also being told to scan iPad 2s and if they are a certain serial number allotment, to send them back to Apple.

Why is Apple pulling these?  We aren’t sure but we’re hearing this:

Update: The problem appears to be with Verizon duplicating MEIDs.  We just got this tip:

Again, please send any further information on this to tips@9to5mac.com – especially specific serial numbers of affected iPad 2s.

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