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I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 day ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] MBech@feddit.dk 28 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

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 8 points 5 hours 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 1 points 3 hours 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$

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 points 6 hours ago

I'm confident it's simply going to be a white label of some Chinese brand. Only question is which one.
Also there are tons of similar mvno networks, so that part is fine.