Ipad Air does it's own thing!

Hi all, got a problem with my ipad. When you open a page e.g.  ebay, after a few seconds it will start scrolling down on it's own and will open another page. I tried 5 times to write this message on the ipad but couldn't. I called in to my local apple store and the suggested I restore the ipad using itunes via my laptop. This I did but it didn't work. I'm hoping someone can suggest a solution otherwise its a 120mile round trip to apple.

Sounds like a hardware problem. Contact Apple Support: http://www.apple.com/contact/

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