600,000 people sent in $100 deposits for this thing—!😧 (Dumbass is laughing all the way to the bank. )
If you carry a scorpion on your back and you’re surprised when you get stung, maybe the problem less with you.
Doubly so when you keep letting the scorpion back on your back, and it stings you again, and you are equally surprised the next time.
Fascists ain’t ever gonna stop getting scammed and it won’t ever stop being funny.
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.
Apparently the terms and conditions were changed quite recently to make it clear paying a deposit didnt guarantee anything.
Changing the terms and conditions to say you are now allowed to steal from your customers doesn’t seem like it would be legal. Which of course is why trump’s doing it.
Refund request must have be made by the Trump mobile, apparently.
that last one is <chef’s kiss>
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.
Say the line maga, you know what it is:
“IT IS A GODDAMNED PRIVILEGE TO HAVE DONATED MY HARD-EARNED AMERICA DOLLARS TO THE MOST AMERICA PRESIDENT THERE EVER WILL BE! HALLELUJAH AMEN!”
this just in: conman cons again. More at 10.
it’s pretty amazing when you try to quantify all the grifts happening. Crypto, government contracts, ‘settlements’ with media and universities, whatever-the-fuck kushner / saudi arabia have going, settlements with the IRS (!?), it’s grift after fucking grift, it’s mind boggling in it’s scale.
You’d think, at some point, stealing so much so quickly - you’d have enough. But no, in typical trump fashion, he’ll keep going, full throttle hatefucking the country for more and more, because there’s never enough for people like this.
Normally I feel sorry for people who get scammed but in this case shitty people getting scammed by the scammer they inflicted on the rest of us don’t get my sympathy.
plus they got scammed more than once, not once, not twice, not even thrice, its more than that, at this point its on the scamee.
I only feel sorry about the money that is now gathered up into the hands of an empowered monster instead of safely dispersed amongst brainless lickspittles.
yeah, I don’t know how to feel about this. On the one hand, fuckin magas got conned by a conman. On the other hand, the bloated turd got a bunch of money for… literally nothing.
He has infinite money anyway. I am just happy MAGAts are finding out.
Doubt they will learn anything, sadly.
they made a golden statue of him, doubtful, apparently the recent statue is paid by the cryptobros.
If I get my hands on him…
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.
KdF = Kraft durch Freude = power through joy
They also used that branding for holiday camps etc. For example here’s the arial view of the Koloss von Rügen holiday complex in Prora, which also never saw any visitors because they didn’t finish it before they started the war:
Prora is active today with hotels and restaurants.
The Fyre Festival Fone.
Who would have thought putting all that lead in the environment would have such far-reaching consequences?
Anyone else find it hard to believe that there were 600,00 orders for this. That feels like another money laundering situation.
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
600’000 times hundred would be 60 million dollars, you’re off by a decimal. But still, agreed on your point
It took Google a year to sell over a million pixels when they released, they didn’t even hit 600,000 sold in their first 3 quarters (looking at all of North America) - https://coolest-gadgets.com/google-smartphone-statistics/
So 600,000 people putting down a $100 deposit for a terrible phone is definitely suspicious.
I also imaging a fair number are YouTube types getting it for the curiosity clicks.
I mean they could have jumped on Alibaba, had a customized firmware, had the “gold” color, had a logo or something screen printed on the outside, and probably spent less than $100/phone, at least if current listings are correct. Sell the things for like $299 and they clear $200 profit on each with nearly no effort.
You look at the sales numbers for the dumbest crap and it isn’t hard to believe.
77 million people voted for this moron to run the country. For a second time.
So yes, i fully believe less than 1% of them bought trump phones.
… Third.
Not really. For a paltry $6 million gross, this wouldn’t be worth the risk from lawsuits. Regardless of what people signed from the preorders. Plus, have you meet any of his diehard supporters? They’re certainly on board with this. They already buy watches and other crap.
While I appreciate the money laundering suggestion, there’s much easier ways to do that at a larger scale. The crypto scam, for example.
Check out the video from penguinz0 on this topic, who ordered one for the lolz. The terms and conditions on the website pretty much state that there is no guarantee that the phone will ever be delivered, or how it looks, or what features it will have. Every section reads like it’s for a product that’s only on sale to scam people, and that there might never be a phone, and no obligation to get the deposit back.
Wouldn’t it be 60 million if it’s 600k people x $100 deposit though?
60 million, right? That’s not pocket change for anyone!
Risks are only for those who play fair. I’m not sure if there is anything Trump and his family could do that would make them actually face consequences, besides maybe loosing the midterms.
Don’t forget the betting via polymarket and so on
its well known its a money laundering scheme from the billionaires/putin/ISRAELI backers, nothing more. much like his CASINOS were the vehicle for laundering russian money. Maga is unable to connect the dots together. “if its too good to be true, it must be true” for them.
The fact that Trump or any of his family will never see the inside of a cell is the single largest thing that destroyed my faith in humanity.
At the very least, they’ll see the inside of a coffin.
That’s not exactly inspiring or fulfilling to me, because we’ll all do that. (metaphorically… I don’t actually want to be buried myself)
That’s an easy out for people like this
Not if they are still alive… [insert evil laugh here]
ivanka, kushner, don jr, Melania and Barron will likely stuff him under a golf cart/court at mar-algo once TRUMPS kicks the bucket, and then fight each other over his ESTATE.
Nah, they’re all super abused and will continue to defend his legacy so that they don’t have to confront what really happened.
with stolen scotus seats, and the 2 almost 3 presidencies by the gop, and complicity of the old guard DNC.
For nearly 600,000 Americans who trusted a brand built on the Trump name,
LOL
Dude, even Ea Nasir delivered something to his customers.
That was the bronze age. This is the new golden age. Totally different things.
