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Warning issued over Donald Trump ‘scam’ golden phone as buyer reveals what happened when he ordered one

“I tried to pre-order the phone and pay the $100 downpayment,” Cox wrote in his opinion piece, “but the website failed, went to an error page, and then charged my credit card the wrong amount of $64.70.”

Despite being undercharged, Cox received a vague confirmation email from TrumpMobile.com stating he would receive an update when the phone shipped, despite never providing a shipping address or paying the full $499 price.

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If only there was a government organization that dealt with consumer fraud.
- Deal with a consumer fraud being run by the president of the greatest country on earth? There isn't.
You order something from a convicted felon. What did you expect ????
- Probably a story.
I really wish I had less scruples. People are so damn gullible as easy to scam
- I really wish you didn't wish that. Which is to say that I sometimes find myself wishing similar to yourself, but ultimately this wish is just because I would like to be financially secure and not scraping by as greedy scammers make bank. Perhaps I'm just projecting, but if your wish comes from a similar place, then I wish that circumstances were such that we were secure enough that we didn't wish for less scruples
  
  Your assessment is pretty close. The underlying wish is to be able to be secure and make bank. It annoys me that I see people doing it via this method.
- I think you're missing an opportunity here. You don't scam them for personal gain. That's wrong. You scam them and then fund food banks, or progressive PACs, or billboards against Republicans.
  It's like Robin Hood, but you're robbing from the dumb to better society.
Cheeto is so inept that he cannot even scam people correctly.
I'd say that is very on par for him
charged my credit card the wrong amount of $64.70.
First thought here is that the charge is being initiated from a currency that converts at that rate to usd.
- If you have to pay 100$ to someone and then choose to pay in a different currency, I would assume the credit card company withdraws a value high enough they don't loose money when paying that someone.
  
  I'm guessing someone misconfigured their ecomm platform for say, $100 AUS instead of $100 USD and so when the third party processes that it hits the USD account as $64 USD.
Fuck around, find out?
This seems more ineptitude than a scam.
- Tbf, it looks like both simultaneously to me.
This is one thing that makes it just completely baffling to me that people think Trump is in any way trustworthy. He has done so many just outright scams and people both keep falling for them but also just ignoring them and pretending they don't reflect on his broader character. Like how tf is half the country so stupid that they can see this guy running a new obvious scam every week and think he isn't scamming them with other shit he's saying?
Never interrupt your enemies when they’re scamming themselves.
I wonder what the bottom limit is for these people. Was the Trump shitcoin not enough? His "digital playing cards"? The trump dinner? Lol
- I came to believe this bullshit is bought by people who can afford to also buy the normal variant and just flex their shitcoins and digital cards at a Trump dinner to prove their loyalty.
I'm a patriot so I'm gonna buy ten. /s
do you think it's real gold?

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