Some MAGA supporters who paid for Donald Trump watches are seriously ticked off. The majority of reviews for GetTrumpWatches on Trustpilot give the company just one star, with some people complaining that it is a “scam.”

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.” The president has been criticized for hawking them on cable TV as a government shutdown drags on over healthcare funding.

On Jan. 8 Lemme be Frank, from Switzerland—a country famed for its watches—wrote, “Absolutely horrible customer service. Do not buy any of these garbage products. Avoid like the plague!!”

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    12 hours ago

    Everybody that knows anything about watches knows these come from websites where you can design them in a browser, pick the components and have them shipped from China. Most of them had $50 Seiko NH35/36 movements. Good movements, but you can get them in a much better $200 watch.

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    10 hours ago

    Lemme be Frank

    Is this news article quoting a Lemmy user‽ Folks, we’ve made it!

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      On Jan. 8 Lemme be Frank, from Switzerland—a country famed for its watches—wrote, “Absolutely horrible customer service. Do not buy any of these garbage products. Avoid like the plague!!”

      Well during the plague, the president will probably tell the public that the vaccines will cause autism and to avoid them. Take bleach and ivermectin instead

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    Do not buy any of these garbage products. Avoid like the plague!!

    We all know most of these fools did not in fact avoid the plague.

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      “Avoid like the plague!!”

      MAGA: Okay, got it, I’m gonna intentionally buy them just to try to piss people off with no regard for the safety of myself or others.

      They’ve been treating these things like they treat the plague from the start, actually.

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    I just sent the link for the watches to my MAGA cousin. Let’s see if he takes the bait!

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    Now let me see, where did I put my empathy for the people who got scammed? Ah well, it’s probably the same place as their empathy for non white, non cis people is. Guess I’ll never find it

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    “My daughters ordered a Trump watch and after 5 months of waiting have not received anything. It’s a shame this company is not holding to President Trump’s high standards. This was a present for my 80th birthday!” wrote one MAGA supporter on July 14.

    These people are un-teachable. This kind of immunity to learning from experience should be considered a mental illness.

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      The mental gymnastics they’re engaging in to separate “This company” from Trump himself, when the latter is actively promoting them on TV, just like he did with the sneakers sold by yet another opaque shell company with a complex ownership structure in the Carribean.

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      I listened to an interview with a Trump-voting farmer who was suffering because of tariffs. She knew tariffs were the problem. She stated repeatedly that tariffs were the problem. She could not bring herself to the logical endpoint in that ultimately this was Trump’s fault, instead blaming “the government” for it. They are not ever going to be productive members of society unless they can be deprogrammed from the cult.

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      “I wish President Trump could be notified how bad this is…”

      Even unteachable is somehow too charitable. In the middle of eating the shit he is spoon feeding them, they believe 100% that he has nothing to do with it and doesn’t even know about it. These people are absolutely braindead.

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      This was a present for my 80th birthday!” wrote one MAGA supporter on July 14.

      So granny doesn’t get a gift for her birthday, and the little shits get to laugh about how they got granny steaming about something ‘not real’ like this. I think I found my new fun hobby for fucking with my maga family members.