Nearly 600,000 Trump supporters paid deposits for a gold smartphone that remains undelivered, sparking outrage and calls for investigation into Trump Mobile's practices.
600,000 people sent in $100 deposits for this thing—!😧 (Dumbass is laughing all the way to the bank. )
I don’t think chargebacks would have been a problem. As we saw they can just change the terms to whatever they want and that should be enough to win cases.
Plus I believe if a chargeback were to be raised properly it should take into consideration the promised time of delivery, not the usual 120 days after the day of payment.
But I suppose this relates to normal online/mail order etc purchases no?
I’m not sure what this $100 was supposed to guarantee at the beginning. Was it a standard pre-order or some sort of kickstarter deal as the revised terms seem to indicate?
If the latter I suspect the card scheme might reject the chargeback…
As I pointed out a year ago, this phone never existed.
They just waited until it was too late to do credit card chargebacks before pulling the rug. I’ve seen it on Kickstarter dozens of times.
I don’t think chargebacks would have been a problem. As we saw they can just change the terms to whatever they want and that should be enough to win cases. Plus I believe if a chargeback were to be raised properly it should take into consideration the promised time of delivery, not the usual 120 days after the day of payment.
16 CFR Part 435 30 days I think
But I suppose this relates to normal online/mail order etc purchases no? I’m not sure what this $100 was supposed to guarantee at the beginning. Was it a standard pre-order or some sort of kickstarter deal as the revised terms seem to indicate? If the latter I suspect the card scheme might reject the chargeback…
Yeah I guess the fact it’s a “preorder” probably does protect them…