Could there really be a lavender iPod mini?

Ok, so there is no lavender iPod mini. At least not officially. We thought that that woman claiming to
sell one on eBay was trying to scam everyone, but Jay from wholesalePDAs.com wrote in that he noticed that three of the pink iPod minis they had in stock were noticeably different than the others. He snapped a few pics of one of them side-by-side with a "regular" pink iPod mini, even reversing their position in the pics to make it clear that it's not just the lighting playing tricks on us. There is a noticeable difference between the two, and some Apple internal documents revealed that some variance in the coloring of the iPod mini's anodized aluminum casing was to be expected.