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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    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.

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      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.”

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        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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          He did gut any dept of gov that would go after grifters or hold them accountable.

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            Something tells me that won’t stop someone from getting in trouble for misusing his name. Straight to deportation with you!

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            In that case, someone should come out with a quality phone and just slap Trump logos all over the damned thing and charge $2,000 for a $500 phone. Run the business until someone tells you to stop.

            Sell Trump crap … it’s all crap anyway … make money on it if people are dumb enough to pay for this shit.

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        Not where I was going for that, more like museum pieces. He’s really done a bunch of shit we absolutely should NOT have allowed. A president, releasing a phone, while in office for a grift. Our great grandkids (hopefully) will be walking through the Smithsonian going what the FUCK was going on in the 20’s, and one of these e-waste POS will be sitting there staring back at them.

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      Yeah, I guarantee the people who collect it will also have a sizeable collection of nazi memorabilia too.