600,000 people sent in $100 deposits for this thing—!😧 (Dumbass is laughing all the way to the bank. )
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.
The Fyre Festival Fone.
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.
Anyone else find it hard to believe that there were 600,00 orders for this. That feels like another money laundering situation.
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.
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
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.
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.
60 million, right? That’s not pocket change for anyone!
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.
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.
Dude, even Ea Nasir delivered something to his customers.
Hello? Who dis? New phone! 🫲🍊🫱
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)
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.
That’s an easy out for people like this
Not if they are still alive… [insert evil laugh here]
with stolen scotus seats, and the 2 almost 3 presidencies by the gop, and complicity of the old guard DNC.
Ha. And might I add, “Ha”.
Hey, you guys wanna invest in a Ballroom? Only $100 to start.
They are the most gullible idiots in the world. You want to make money? Sell MAGA crap.
They trusted a businessman who failed so hard he had to fall back on a career of political masturbation. Fuck em.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you that the preorder page is still up and
takingstealing magat’s money.Really? That’s even funnier than the fact that anyone fell for the shit!
If anyone ever asks what your strengths are, don’t say identifying sarcasm.
Oh the irony.
Well, I’ll be able to put sarcasm identification, just not reading comprehension.
Really?
Is it not still up, then?
Oooh, I interpreted your reply as in you thought it was funny that the OC was shocked. Ha. Jokes on me eh.
It is. I don’t understand how they thought any of that was sarcasm…
