I was so close to falling for it, because, except the prices, everything seemed quite legit especially compared to the Western Union loving european scammers that are all over eBay. Ahwell, I guess I won't be a switcher any time soon.
Shame, it was working when I originally posted it... regardless, basically in the article and the article comments were a whole bunch of people debunking ApplePurchaseProgram and seeming to do a pretty good job at it. Only one person claimed to have known someone who successfully placed an order and they got their unit and ended up paying very close to Apple's price for it. Although I'm still not 100% positive that it is a scam, it's definitely not worth 250 dollars to find out.
Wow, here's an interesting link from that powerpage site about a company with similar-looking (though I don't know enough about either to say how similar looking they are) offer that really scammed a bunch of people out of money. http://home.nyc.rr.com/dp284/
Wasn't that long ago either -- just a little under 2 years ago.