Smart cover not sticking

The title says it. The smart cover just falls off my new iPad (3) . Makes no differnce which way up it is

I had the ipad2 and the leather smart cover worked pretty good. With the new Ipad3 the cover is miserable, falling off all the time. I just spent a unproductive 30 minutes on the phone with apple going thru voice prompts and multiple agents with each one telling me they could not help me and transfering me to the next person who could not help me. Its days like this that you really can dislike apple as customer support is about impossible to get in any meaningful and prompt manner. No solution so far and I do not have a store nearby. Exchangign one for the same thing will likely not help unless the magnets wore out that fast.

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