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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Furious MAGA Customers Say They Got ‘Scammed’ by Trump Watches

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Furious MAGA Customers Say They Got ‘Scammed’ by Trump Watches

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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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The majority of reviewers on Trustpilot gave Trump Watches one star.
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  • paperazzi@lemmy.world
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    100% those watches were made in China.

  • starblursd@lemmy.zip
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    Wow! Who could have predicted this?

    • Z3k3@lemmy.world
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      At least twice a day

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        But not necessarily at exact 12 hour intervals as you’d expect.

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    Even aside from being Trump-branded, how was this not a gigantic red flag -

    The timepieces are made by TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC

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      What do you mean. The company is called BEST watches! Not WORST watches. Checkmate liberal.

    • Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world
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      The generic names really do fool the geriatric

    • moondoggie@lemmy.world
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      THEY CAN’T CALL IT THAT UNLESS IT’S TRUE!

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      You mean his gullible followers didn’t think before they bought them? Shocking.

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    Surely there is some federal bureau meant to protect American consumers from things like this?

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      deleted by regulator

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        regulated by the deletor

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          deleted by the regulago_e_r

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    It’s pretty simple; if they’re going to continue getting scammed by him, he’s going to keep scamming them.

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    The timepieces are made by TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC and range from $499 to $2,999 per watch, or $5,389 for the “Ultra Mega Collector Set.”

    if you spend over five thousand dollars on a device to tell the time, you are an idiot with more money than sense.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Well, telling time is one more feature than most jewelry has, and that’s what mechanical watches really are. That’s not even very expensive as far as watches go.

      I sure wouldn’t buy one myself, but I won’t judge anyone for their taste in fashion accessories. In this case I will absolutely judge them, but for entirely different reasons.

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      My guess is that Trump was going after the “forth at the mouth for anything with his name on it” audience.

      There are Rolex collectors who will throw $20k at a watch easy.

      That’s not who Trump is trying to attract.

      He’s going after people who buy shit with his name on it because they want to be shown as in the “in group”.

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        It’s simpler than that. It was a way for him to accept bribes from foreign enemies of the US.

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          Por que no los dos 🤷

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      Rolex watches cost up to 10x that and don’t even keep accurate time. It’s a feature.

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    If you buy MAGA shit then you are not being scammed. You are just a fucking dumbass that shouldn’t spawn more dumbasses.

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    Lol, the one positive review mentions how it’s designed for “a very small wrist”…

    I wonder if this is just because it was made cheaply in Asia and not designed for the average heft of a trumpet, or if they used Trump’s baby hands for sizing?

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      I wonder if this is just because it was made cheaply in Asia and not designed for the average heft of a trumpet.

      I’m sure it’s this. Everything about this, down to the variable delays that different customers endure, screams out that this is a shady, shoestring operation stalling until they finally hit minimum order quantity with their drop-shipper in China.

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    Is it still a scam if the outcome was obvious ahead of time?

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    Suckers never learn.

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    Well yeah they literally bought a watch from a grifter what did they expect hahaha

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    “The overall 2.8-star rating appears to suggest a record of over-promising and under-delivering.”

    Enough about his presidency, get to the watches!

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    Does the guy (at Wired ?) that bought a Trump Phone got his phone finally ?

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      This being animated is deeply unsettling.

  • xc2215x@lemmy.world
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    It is on them for buying one in the first place.

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      Conservatives do t understand consequences till they are effected…

      All these grifts do, is slowly chip away at his most loyal supporters, because they’re the only ones even attempting to buy this shit.

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