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The website failed, went to an error page, and then charged my credit card the wrong amount of $64.70. I received a confirmation email saying I’ll receive a confirmation when my order has been shipped, but I haven’t provided a shipping address or paid the full $499 price tag. It is the worst experience I’ve ever faced buying a consumer electronic product and I have no idea whether or how I’ll receive the phone.

I look forward to learning more about how terrible these phones turn out.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Daily reminder, Jimmy Carter willingly sold his peanut farm because his morality told him of his own viewpoints that it may be seen as unfair for a President to own business interests while serving the most important role of government. Which in his mind may come off as corrupt.

We now have a president who see's his name as a brand. That's where we've gone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

People are forgetting too that this is just a job that he can be fired from. The SCOTUS and Republicans can fire him at any moment, but they aren't. These middle managers suck.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Let me guess. It's a rebranded Chinese phone that typically goes for like 50 bucks?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yep, apparently it's a cosmetically tweaked Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G, which goes for $170 under the T-Mobile brand on Amazon.

Eric Trump admitted it was going to be made in China, so the press release's description, "designed and built in the United States," is just a lie, or actually two lies.

'Eventually': Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn't being made in the USA

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But it's golden and has a convicted felon's name on it. That should make up for the rest of the value right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He saw the Escobar phone and thought it was a good plan.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Even as a 'lets see what this grift is all about'...why the hell would anyone order this horseshit..beyond stupid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To rip it apart on a software and hardware level to find the backdoors and spyware. We need to know how hardcore we are being spied on when the guy near us has one.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Youtubers going for content.

Conceptually, it'll make one f of a collectors item one day there's no way enough will sell to make them common.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

In much the same way that Confederate memorabilia is collectable.

As in, "You should avoid anyone who collects this shit. They're probably a white nationalist."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Or you can spray paint your old iPhone with gold coloring, slap a Trump logo on it and sell it on ebay to some unsuspecting MAGA fan for $2,000.

It's not hard to copy Trump's signature ... you could throw that on the phone and charge $5,000 and tell everyone that you bought it at a MAGA rally where Trump signed it in 2024.

If they can grift .... we can all grift harder

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Journalism budget.

This person buying it might convince persuade others to not to buy it.

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