The website failed, went to an error page, and then charged my credit card the wrong amount of $64.70. I received a confirmation email saying I’ll receive a confirmation when my order has been shipped, but I haven’t provided a shipping address or paid the full $499 price tag. It is the worst experience I’ve ever faced buying a consumer electronic product and I have no idea whether or how I’ll receive the phone.

I look forward to learning more about how terrible these phones turn out.

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        And they’ll ironically lose the lawsuit about the lies and deception of this, the defense of which will be funded by donations from the idiots that buy this phone and receive messages every hour asking for more money for the legal defense fund.

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        cosmetically tweaked

        It would have to be super tweaked considering the phone you referenced has four cameras, and a notch style front camera.

        My bet is that this is a 10 second photoshop job and the actual phone will look nothing like that.

        I mean if you do a difference blend of two of the cameras, you get a perfectly black circle (minus some blending at the edges):

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        This means that the cameras are exact pixel-perfect copies of each other arranged in that order by photoshop. They don’t exist on any phone.

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          Yes, I wouldn’t assume the picture has anything to do with the phone (if any) people will actually receive.

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        But it’s golden and has a convicted felon’s name on it. That should make up for the rest of the value right?

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        The first thing that stood out to me is that the T from the phone logo in the thumbnail looks suspiciously similar to the T from T-Mobile. Like, almost identical to my untrained eye.

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        The Revvl is the cheapest phone T-Mobile offers last time I was in need of a replacement; they basically give it away free if you do 2 year contracts instead of normal month-to-month, contractless services. It’s what my dad uses. 🤣

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        You can even buy a refurb for about $80, which is hilarious lol