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600,000 people sent in $100 deposits for this thing—!😧 (Dumbass is laughing all the way to the bank. )

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[-] johnofrobotz@news.girolab.foo 115 points 6 days ago

For nearly 600,000 Americans who trusted a brand built on the Trump name, the gold phone has become the latest entry in a long record of ventures that took their money and delivered nothing.

They wanted a Trump experience and they got one. Could argue they got what they paid for.

[-] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago

There's also no evidence that they sold 600k phones. They couldn't just made that number up.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/863381/trump-mobile-viral-preorder-figures-600000

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

You're right. They didn't sell 600k phones. They took money from 600k people, but there was no phone sold.

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