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I just don't understand how the place isn't shut down already.
They know the "business" behind the product is some shady LLC in a warehouse in Wyoming. There are no watches being produced there. There are no sneakers being produced there. And there never will be. This is a money laundering scheme and nothing more. And even if they do get some rubes dumb enough to part with their money, their orders will just be "temporarily delayed" while the customer is sent circling around LLC hell trying to get a refund on a product that never existed in the first place.
Seriously. $100,000 watches? Who the fuck is the target audience for this? Even if it were on the up-and-up (it isn't), there's only a sliver of a sliver of the population who could afford to even if they wanted to. And you're not going to reach them through some random late-night commercial on OANN. If this were a legit product made by a legit company, their entire sales wing would have known that commercials targeting inbred hicks at 3:00 in the morning is a complete waste of money.
Trump and whoever else is behind this should have just quietly taken out a couple of back-of-the-magazine ads in some no-name magazine to give their product a veneer of legitimacy and then just quietly did their crime stuff with nobody being any wiser. But no, this is Trump, who must always, always pick the worst and most absurdly inane option available. Every time. Like picking a smart choice would cause him torturous pain or something. I've never seen a man who so masterfully looks at all of the options available to him, and somehow manages to come up with and select an exponentially worse option with such consistency.
Trump fanatics with a lot of money. Which if even one person buys one (And Im sure someone has) The entire charade becomes worth it.