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Anyone else find it hard to believe that there were 600,00 orders for this. That feels like another money laundering situation.
Edit: 600K
Well, there over 200 million adult US citizens, assume 1/3 are trump supporters that's 60 million potential customers, it's not unrealistic for 1% of them to have placed a $100 deposit on a trump branded phone.
I'm just more surprised they decided to not ship anything. They could've simply gone to any ODM ordered a generic design but in gold color and called it a day. Heck they could run an actual MVMO sell some overpriced android phones as carrier branded devices, sell some overprice cell service, then sell the brand off to wash their hands of it and probably would've made far more than the paltry $6 million that they did make in pre-order deposits
Edit: I was off by a zero they made ~$60 million in deposits
As I pointed out a year ago, this phone never existed.
They just waited until it was too late to do credit card chargebacks before pulling the rug. I've seen it on Kickstarter dozens of times.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you that the preorder page is still up and ~~taking~~ stealing magat's money.
Really? That's even funnier than the fact that anyone fell for the shit!
lol
Fascists ain't ever gonna stop getting scammed and it won't ever stop being funny.
You have to be a special kind of dummy to even want that piece of shit in the first place. Idiot tax collected. Carry on, carrion!
Instead this will just encourage the more.
"We wouldn't scam us again! He learned what he did wrong the first time!"
Say the line maga, you know what it is:
βIT IS A GODDAMNED PRIVILEGE TO HAVE DONATED MY HARD-EARNED AMERICA DOLLARS TO THE MOST AMERICA PRESIDENT THERE EVER WILL BE! HALLELUJAH AMEN!β
If you carry a scorpion on your back and youβre surprised when you get stung, maybe the problem less with you.
That's okay, vote for him again. He's going to give you everything you're owed in his third term.
Lol, what a bunch of stupid assholes.
Zero sympathy, fuck them and I hope they lose even more money in the future by still being stupid dickheads.
This was nothing but a 60,000,000 dollars loan at 0% interest rate to probably invest in AI and then only return the 100 dollars to those who requested it. Nicely played π€£
Ha. And might I add, βHaβ.
Bro are these journalists high? Read the terms and conditions...
If you cancel your deposit before completing a purchase, you may request a full refund. Refund requests must be submitted through Trump Mobile customer support prior to completion of a final sale. If Trump Mobile cancels or discontinues the Device offering prior to sale, Trump Mobile will issue a full refund of the deposit amount paid.
That's hilarious. Don the Con.
Who'd have thought the serial fraudster would defraud them?
His base is like trader NPCs in video games.
They buy everything he's selling to them. Then they un-ironically call everyone else NPC for being slightly skeptical.
The vehicle that we today call the Volkswagen Beetle was at its inception called the KdF-Wagen. Nazi Germany had this whole scheme where you could save up stamps in a little booklet and when you got enough stamps, you could redeem them for a car.
No one ever got their cars, though many Germans had saved up enough stamps. Sure they built a few, but they went to government officials. It was a scam.
KdF-Phone.
The Fyre Festival Fone.
Double-good. Idiots are parted from their money, and get irate at Trump.
Only drawback is that the money is now in the hands of the Trump clan, but given the mass robbing of the public and budget they are doing, this will amount to small change.
Republicans really struck gold with these maga morons. They are an endless supply of gullability, funds, and votes. World class idiots they deserve everything they want for others.
