699

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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[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago

Plot twist: there are no phones, the whole thing is a scheme to rip off people for $64.70. Enough money to make the scam worth it, not enough for people to put in the time and effort to reclaim their money unless their credit card will compensate them.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

That's not a twist at all....

[-] possumparty@lemm.ee 16 points 6 days ago

I mean, it's literally just a rebranded CP12, it's a $50 phone that's been painted gold.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 352 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 139 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago

They're complicit. You don't fire a boss because some people don't like them, you fire a boss when you don't like them.

What a state of affairs we're in...

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago

middle managers suck.

FTFY

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Who's going to sit in 15 hours worth of meetings each week if not the middle managers?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

Well, that and he was complying with the Emoluments Clause. You know, that thing that should've seen Trump impeached on Inauguration Day -- 2017, not even just 2025!

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 39 points 1 week ago

It's much worse than that, he's actively exploiting his position in government for personal gain. They have a gold Trump credit card that advertises that it's "an official website of the US government".

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago

Worse than that, he's hosting $1M a plate dinners for "access" and attendees get things like pardons for their family members or government approval of business deals after paying these bribes.

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[-] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 86 points 1 week ago

extremely non-zero chance the entire site and payment system was coded by morons with chatgpt

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 24 points 1 week ago

The preferred term is "vibe coding" nowadays!

[-] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

At this point, his sons are just vibe scamming. Kind of surprised that they haven't started a gun company yet. Truth rifles that literally blow up in his followers' faces.

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[-] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 82 points 1 week ago

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

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 102 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

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

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

cosmetically tweaked

It would have to be super tweaked considering the phone you referenced has four cameras, and a notch style front camera.

My bet is that this is a 10 second photoshop job and the actual phone will look nothing like that.

I mean if you do a difference blend of two of the cameras, you get a perfectly black circle (minus some blending at the edges):

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This means that the cameras are exact pixel-perfect copies of each other arranged in that order by photoshop. They don't exist on any phone.

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[-] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 76 points 1 week ago

Clearly the wrong price; should be going for $86.47.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 73 points 1 week ago

well i'm definitely shocked that the guy banned from operating a charity in new york because he scammed children with cancer would operate a shoddy business.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Psst... you're sarcasm is showing

Bumblebee tuna

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 20 points 1 week ago

Usually he's not even involved in running the business, they're licensing deals where some scammer pays a few million up front to use the Trump name, which is then used to scam his followers.

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[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago

The US is a failed state. There's no other way to put it.

[-] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

Failing, not failed. Don’t give up! Things could get a lot worse, we’re nowhere near the bottom. They could also get better.

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[-] joeynotjoe@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

It’s not for lack of a better term. It’s just accurate.

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 61 points 1 week ago

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

It will be a bog standard white label china phone with android, a custom wallpaper and maybe some cover/protector like you can get on temu. It's not like they develop their own hardware configuration, apps or phone os.

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

But the world's best professional bullshitter wrote on Truth that it's built in the USA, it's not a China phone

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago

Which American companies actually manufacture displays, ram, CPUs, batteries etc. for cellphones in America?

[-] notgold@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago

Trumps companies if you believe him and disregard the 'made in china' sticker

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 week ago

Can't say I feel bad for you buddy. Count yourself lucky if your cc info isn't abused.

You are literally dealing with known felons.

[-] Cyclist@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago

It's a 404 Media journalist, he did it on purpose to point out how stupid it is.

[-] MBech@feddit.dk 34 points 1 week ago

There's a very high probability that the company will shut down before they even get a working product. All the pre-order money will have been spent on "research" and "salaries", with 80% going directly into Trump's pockets. And there will be fuck all anyone can do to get their money back. Scammers gonna scam.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 6 days ago

I sometimes wish I had no moral code. This demographic is super easy to scam. Like the guy who listed the non-woke beer or the people who listed the freedumb phone, etc. Just attach some bullshit marketing to a thing and stupid people eat it up.

[-] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

OP sounds like this is a B2B gone wrong… the 67.47$ is what they pay the factory. For the consumer this should be 499$

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I bet the business address is that same as the one for his Trump watches, gold sneakers, and some “male enhancement honey” that you'd have to be very ~~hard up~~ well, desperate to try.

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[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 28 points 1 week ago

It's like that Trump watch with the T missing. "I was expecting something with the integrity of the President". Yeah, you got that.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Never ceases to embarrass this nation

[-] KarlHungus42@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

There is hidden significance and symbolism throughout the device for those dedicated trumpies to uncover. For example, one easter egg is that the length of the screen is exactly 4x the length of trump’s dick.

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[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

Imagine if earlier fascists were as corrupt with conflicts of interests. Maybe we could call via the Adolfone.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

The MussoliniPad, doesn’t get WiFi at gas stations

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[-] rajkopz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago

well, hope this spreads quickly as a lesson to everyone avoid that crap!

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Those who buy this deserve it.

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Of course the phone is gold. Does it come with a stylus shaped like a golf club and diaper as well? Or are those extra?

Edit: Looked the specs. It has a headphone jack and expandable memory. How can Trump get that right and most phone manufacturers can't?

[-] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 week ago

Because it's almost certainly an old, low spec device that they've bought a job lot of on clearance.

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