• Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com
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    4 hours ago

    “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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    8 hours ago

    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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    He can’t think of a better scam than selling watches, which will piss off his base? He should just give out a bunch of government contracts to shell companies he owns. Of course I suppose his base will still support him even if they get ripped off for a watch.

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      No, he has dozens of scams going on constantly raking in millions. The more the merrier for him and his ilk.

      It’s kind of insane.

  • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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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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    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.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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”.

    • 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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    11 hours ago

    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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    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.