There was never a phone in the first place. Never expected to be. It was all a scam to get lefty YouTubers to buy a thing that doesn’t exist because they were going to shit all over it.
Lotta effort and embarrassment to get maybe a gross profit in the low 5 figures. Take into account the actual work to get it to that point, even a brick dropshipped from China is gonna cost something to send, and they certainly lost money on the con
I think probably half of those are YouTubers who bought the phone as a bit for content, to tear it down and see just how shit it is, etc.
Which almost seems like the reverse double con.
There was never a phone in the first place. Never expected to be. It was all a scam to get lefty YouTubers to buy a thing that doesn’t exist because they were going to shit all over it.
Lotta effort and embarrassment to get maybe a gross profit in the low 5 figures. Take into account the actual work to get it to that point, even a brick dropshipped from China is gonna cost something to send, and they certainly lost money on the con
I’m thinking more like someone convinced Don Jr to get the name rights, then ran off with the 5 figures.