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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[–] 220 points 1 year ago (5 children)

“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.

Nope, no intelligence was found here.

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  • [–] 103 points 1 year ago

    This is the closest that recipient will get to a direct interaction with Trump. The only thing that could make it a more accurate analog would be their daughters getting sexually assaulted/harassed, and then called a liar who isn't attractive enough to get sexually assaulted.

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  • [–] 130 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Temu quality, Rolex prices. Sounds like a Trump enterprise to me.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Not super important but just to say, Rolex is far more expensive than these. The most expensive option for the Trump watch is still cheaper than the cheapest model of Rolex. And that’s assuming you can even buy it at retail value, which is impossible in most places. Most jewelry stores won’t sell you a Rolex unless you have purchase history with them, and as such used prices are often way higher than brand new.

    Vintage is a different story, some cheaper vintage Rolexes can go for under 5k (and some rare ones can be exponentially more expensive too), but if we’re talking new, they’re all more expensive than these Trump watches.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's a Trump tourbillon version going for 100k. Sold out btw

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean, at least it has an expensive complication that somewhat justifies its price? Not that a tourbillon is worth 100k but it is still a very expensive complication. I wouldn’t put it past these guys to sell a quartz watch for 100k.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fair enough, for sure a tourbillon watch will be more expensive, but 100k? I'm not into watches that much, how much is a good tourbillon these days? Not that this could ever be good, in fact I bet it doesn't even exist irl.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You can get a used Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Tourbillon for around 30k at the low end I think. Not saying JLC is the cheapest on the market (it’s definitely not) but they’re excellent watches without being too bloated in price for what you get. I’m sure brand new is a bit more expensive but if you can get a JLC for a third of the price, that’s saying something.

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  • [–] 99 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fool me 10 times, shame on you. Fool me 11 times, big shame on you. This 12th deal better be damn good to make up for all that!

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  • [–] 87 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    "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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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    “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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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "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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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thank you Trump for my spoonful of shit!

    God damn Joe Biden and those fucking demoncrats put shit in my mouth!

    Yeah idk — we need a new word that eclipses 'ret*rd' for stupidity. It's time.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No way. Who'd believe it? There's surely no precedent for this.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC lol That's such a scam name I can't understand how anyone wouldn't think it's a scam. It might as well be called TotallyLegitBusinessThatsNotAScam.

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    They would vote for him again without question. They would just shrug their shoulders at the polls and write it off as someone else’s fault, convinced trump is getting to the bottom of it for them.

    You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago

    They'll fall for it again with the Trump phone

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    I wish Pres Trump could be notified to what this company has done to customers.

    Why does she think he can't be notified?

    What makes her think he doesn't already know?

    So many layers of cope.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I just saw the commercial last week. As an artist you can tell a lot about a person by what they make. Not one product Trump has made has been quality. Gold facades overpriced bibles, poison steaks, chinese hats supposedly made in america, phones and phone plans running on another cell carrier. Nothing. Hes useless.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Whoda thunk that a likely shell company called TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC wouldn't be trustworthy and competent??

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    These fools are never going to realize they are the fool.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Some MAGA supporters who paid for Donald Trump watches are seriously ticked off.

    Great start already lol

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A fool and his money are soon parted.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago*

    It finally dawned on me I was scammed.

    oh, finally.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Golly, being stupid sounds expensive!

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    This article is Just a LibRUls Hoax to make Trump look bad and EVERYONE who was Interviewed was ANTIFA!

    -A Free Thinking Republican who ALSO got Scammed!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Trump's been scamming you for a lot more than just a watch, morons!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Oh no!!! A known con man scammed idiots out of their money? Who could have guessed?

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    Trump: "I can't believe they fell for it. What marooons."

    He'll probably sell them toasters that burn down their houses next.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Expensive watches are already a scam. But the sheer hilarity of buying ANY Trump-branded product and expecting it not to be a scam? Truly hilarious.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My copy of the surprised pikachu meme is broken.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Here, you can have mine. And keep it. Please.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    If I had never seen pokemon and you told me they were all like that, I think I'd recommend we burn the planet up much faster. and arrange for some extremely large chunks of asteroid to make our acquaintance at extreme velocities. Sure, we'd be doing ourselves in but fuck, look at that thing. It's the right choice.

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  • [+] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    THEY STILL DON'T BLAME TRUMP. It's fucking incredible. They're literally incapable of thinking he could do something wrong.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Who are they blaming? The cheap watch maker, that everyone knows makes cheap watches and shouldn't be surprised at all that the watches that they made are cheap?

    Gasp what horrible company would try to sabotage the president like that?

    (/s ... in case it wasn't obvious)

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    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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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    No shit Sherlock?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Exemplary product from a Trump point of view then. A scam that relieved his followers of their cash in exchange for trash. He, as usual, is laughing all the way to the bank. This presidency is already stacking up to be far more lucrative than the last one.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Trump-brand products! 100% scam, or your money back!

    Not sure who still buys Trump products other than people who want money to be taken away from them.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It says gullible on the ceiling.

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  • The thing about jokes like that, is that trusting you on your word, without checking for one's self, is what actual gullible people would do. Skeptics verify information, and to do that, they'd have to look up.

    So if you say something like that and people look, they're not the gullible ones.

    I know, I know, "I must be fun at parties."

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  • lmafo. they deserve it.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Reviews cite delays, non-arrivals, and ignored demands for refunds.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Let me guess: the normal sales price for those watches is 99.99 or less.

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    Wow. I'm impressed. If it is really this clock (branded, of course), he really, really scammed them. Deserves them right. While the amount of features is impressive, I'm not sure how long this thing will work properly, and I wonder about the serviceability. Has someone of the YT clockmaker guys had a closer look at it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I don't know for sure if it's this one specifically (probably not) but the Chinese are cranking out things just like this by the bucketload, nonstop. They'll make them to order with the options you specify, incorporate your own visual design elements, etc. for a small setup fee and then run off however many thousand of these you want for mere peanuts.

    Edit: Actually, what I really want to know is if Trumpski paid his tariffs on his Chinese knockoff watches. I'll bet you he didn't.

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  • [+] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • We're talking about a guy who managed to run multiple casinos into the ground. Casinos. Businesses which at their core consists of people handing you money and you getting to keep between 25-50% of it on average.

    On top of that, he was laundering gobs of money through them (the Taj Mahal for sure) and still couldn't manage to keep them afloat.

    Running the Federal Government like it was part of the Trump Organization was one of the few promises he actually kept and boy does it show.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Fell for it again

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  • Just another MAGA scam.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nobody forced them to hand money to a known notorious liar.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Damn. Well, I'm sure the next Trump product will be totally legit and worth the money. Keep spending, dipshits. Those two-headed commemorative coins are only going to go up in value. Get in early!

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