Trump's gold shoes ridiculed after price drop: 'Just surrendered 75% of their price'

[Tom of Temecula]

Some say it was a sneaker con all along. The 45th president came to Philly in mid-February and debuted before sneaker heads at the Sneaker Con his limited edition, golden bathed, red-soled "Never Surrender High-Tops" with Stars and Stripes accents for a $399 sticker price.

The Never Surrender sneakers were billed as "your rally cry in shoe form." And on his website the 1,000 run of the kicks had already sold out within hours. Two weeks later the shoes are being hawked online for a third of the price.

"I wonder how many gullible idiots bought a pair of Trump’s 'Never Surrender' sneakers at the original $400 price," asked a Democratic campaign finance executive Jon Cooper. "You can now find them online for under $100, lol. Anyway, whatever price they pay, these MAGA morons will likely never get delivery. It’s just another con, folks."

"The Never Surrender sneakers just surrendered 75% of their price," reads a tweet by Bob Clendenin. GOP pollster Frank Luntz joked: "The ‘Never Surrender’ Trump sneakers have surrendered to the Deep Discount State."

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-con-shoe-price-drop/

[Chipper Chat]

1. I saw a pair on ebay for forty seven thousand dollars

[Beaverhausen]

51. Was anyone bidding? N/T

[Chipper Chat]

54. I don't see that one anymore

But there is one that has fifty two bids and is up 24 thousand fifty dollar. Oh and it does have free shipping woohoo

[getagrip_already]

2. I have to wonder how many scammers are just selling thin air....

Having never bothered to even buy one of the first thousand pairs.

They just photoshop a receipt. Put up a picture of the shoes. And run off with the money.

By July, they will be untouchable, even if the shoes do ship.

[TwilightZone]

8. Yep. The shoes in the screenshot aren't even the same shoes.

There's no T logo.

There are dozens of stores that suddenly popped up online selling them. From a quick Google search, several of them have already been shut down, but there are a lot still up and running.

I hope that the Jon Cooper quote was made up for the story, because a "Democratic campaign finance executive" shouldn't be falling for such an obvious fake.

[live love laugh]

49. He stole the Loubutin red-bottom design so it's fitting that he got copied.

[Celerity]

3. brutal slamdown of a MAGAt

Link to tweet

[orleans]

24. that's funny nt

[TwilightZone]

4. The stores supposedly selling them for $99 are fake.

Don't believe everything you read online. Fake stores pop up any time that there's an item like this in the news. They even manipulate Google ratings so that they show up in searches.

Look at the screenshot. They're not even the same shoes. No T logo.

[TheBlackAdder]

19. Probably made in the same facility, using the same materials. Just not the T logo.

It's sort of like how the factory that made Izod Polos during the day also made JC Penny Fox Polos at night.

[TwilightZone]

36. Or don't exist.

That's just as likely, if not more so.

[TwilightZone]

5. Not the same shoes.

No T logo. These are clearly knockoffs.

[limbicnuminousity]

6. I hope Musk offers to buy the brand

and the price plummets to $20 but still doesn't sell.

[FakeNoose]

16. That would fit nicely into his "lose-it-all" marketing scheme

But if Musk buys the brand, he'd be giving Chump the chance to call it a "win."

[Lunabell]

7. Lol

[Pinback]

21. SURRENDER DONOTHY

“Who killed my grifter?”

[Lunabell]

22. Good one!

Surrender donothy!! 🤣 🤣 🤣

[Backseat Driver]

30. Perfect...

As an aside, my car's name is Dorothy - I tap my heels together 3 times and she takes me home where there's no place like home. Bodywise, she's still a beautiful vehicle that's been undriveable in the garage for 2-1/2 years of her last 22 years. I got a quote for about $4000 to fix her, lol, the water pump's dead, et al, other mechanical odds and ends to get it going again. I've joked about hiring a skywriter to spell NEVER SURRENDER DOROTHY in the sky over my garage with a donation pot beneath awaiting a sign moran that thinks I misspelled it!

[bluesbassman]

9. Those a clearly knockoffs. Probably Ivanka, she's into that sort of thing.

[samsingh]

10. like all his businesses

and either the fools buy, or foreign interests launder the money his way

[flying_wahini]

11. You mean it was a scam all along???? Oh say it isn't so.

I mean, it’s the Orange Grifter. Fools and their money.

[maxrandb]

12. Can anyone say "money laundering"?

Seems like this would be a good way for Putin to spend some money the dipshits way, and then try to recoup some by selling them for $19.99.

Or, it's like the Rightwing screed making the NYTs bestseller list, and finding copies a week later at the Dollar Tree discount bin.

[cstanleytech]

13. Imagine how much of the US he would surrender if Russia would attack the US.

[keithbvadu2]

14. "No refunds" for the real ones. Poor quality? No refunds.

[Beachnutt]

15. Anybody know where I can get a pair of these ?

I'd like to wear them to my next family reunion..
magaloon family mostly.
For sarcasm.

[calimary]

53. Remove the soles and they'd make fantastic cat litter pan scoopers!

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Take your oldest dirty sneakers and spray them gold. List on eBay!

$2.95 starting price. Troll, troll, troll.

[nuxvomica]

18. It's because Biden's fighting inflation so damn hard

This is all Biden's fault. Thank you, Joe!

[Hugin]

20. "You really cry in shoe form"

There, I fixed the tag line for them. Hey, what’s AI got that I don’t have.

[3catwoman3]

23. As noted in the first reply, there was an eBay listing...

...for $47,000, as well as several others ranging from $5000+ to $10-15000+. None of those ridiculously over-priced listings are there now.

[TwilightZone]

38. Still a pair at $15k

Last edited Sat Mar 2, 2024, 06:05 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/126353771364

The shoes in the OP aren't the same shoes. They're knockoffs, if they even exist, and the stores selling them are fake. Of course, hardly anyone reads the responses so people still think the post is legit.

Edit: the ones on ebay are fake, too. Never mind!

[redqueen]

25. Funny but wish the twitter dunce would have used a pic of the actual shoes

and not knock offs.

It's not that hard.

Link to tweet

[TwilightZone]

39. That ad is for a fake store.

There are dozens of stores that have popped up in the past couple weeks claiming to sell them for $99. They're all fake and they're all scams.

I can't believe a guy who is apparently a top-level fundraiser for Dems fell for this shit. All he had to do was look into the company behind the ad and he would have realized it was fake -- or just had some common fricking sense. Now, it's everywhere.

This is why ransomware is still prevalent. People just assume that everything online is true, and can't tell the fake from the real thing. At least he's not in charge of cybersecurity.

[FalloutShelter]

26. You know... we do an awful lot of grave dancing on this vampire's grave.

At some point we have to move beyond ridicule.

This is a big platform. Why are we not organizing here?

Where is our flex?

Just asking.

[Bobstandard]

34. Here's the link to ActBlue. Donating $ helps

https://secure.actblue.com/]

[Traildogbob]

27. I can't wait to see

Jr on that commercial where those horrible actors tell you how cheap they bought something at their website.
“I got this mountain bike for $5.00”. “I got this table top Mixer for $2.00”. I got this new car for $2,000”.
“I got the Trump limited edition golden Sneakers, real gold, for .25”. Free Shipping. (No refunds expect deliver after November 2024)

[JohnnyRingo]

28. There is a lot of pirated Trump merch for sale. And I mean a LOT.

So there's a good chance someone painted a pair of high tops and put them online. There's no need to copy a Coach designer purse when these boobs are lined up to buy anything Trump related. Donald Trump has a brand problem and he doesn't want to do anything about it because it gets his name out there.

I see booths set up at events around the county hawking shirts, flags, poster, and anything else they can think of. I know damn well these are just opportunists cashing in on a fad. The good news here is not one dime of that money is making its way to Mar a Lago.

If those shoes are being copied, and they likely are, the only victims are those who spent money on the genuine version, and they deserve to be taken.

[BobTheSubgenius]

29. Those shoes look like a Must Have if you want to change your life to that of an incel.

[tanyev]

31. Fool's Gold.

[aggiesal]

32. Here's the link to the online store ...

Wonder how many people paid $399 to sell for a profit & now losing 75% of their investment?
When is the MAGA cult going to realize, everything Trump touches fails?
🤣😂🤣

https://sportyslipons.com/products/stars-and-stripes-great-america-shoes-limited-edition

[TwilightZone]

40. The store is a fake.

Website lookup goes to Canada, while the phone number is supposedly in Ohio.

Website is on various blacklists as a very high level threat.

There are dozens of stores just like it online. They're all fake.

[aggiesal]

41. Their website looks pretty legit, and is Powered.by Shopify ...

Their contact phone number is 845 area code which is in New York State.

[TwilightZone]

45. Sorry, had the wrong state.

I was looking at this and another site at the same time. Thanks for the correction.

My point is that the OP is false, and I don't know why we keep falling for this shit. The Trump sneakers are not being sold for $99. Either the shoes are fake or the websites are.

The Shopify link just goes to Shopify. That doesn't mean anything. Anyone can copy the link/logo and paste it on their website.

Do a Google search for "never surrender sneakers" and look for $99.99 and you'll find a bunch of different sites that look almost exactly the same, with only some tiny variations in layout, with different phone numbers and e-mail addresses. Some of them have already been shut down by their internet providers or hosting companies, and all that's left is a page saying the store is not available.

Like this one from said Google search: https://thelittlelemondropboutique.com/products/donald-trump-never-surrender-high-top-sneakers-6737

That's generally how the scam works. Multiple sites to increase the chances of showing up in Google searches and reduce the chances of them all being shut down. They're often set up with VOIP phone numbers, which can make it look like they're anywhere the "seller" wants, but they all end up at the same place.

The shoes at the site from the OP and the other near-identical online stores aren't the same as the Trump ones, so it's also possible that someone is selling knockoffs through multiple storefronts, but, as I noted, the site comes up on multiple blacklists, so it's just as likely that the whole thing is fake. It looks legit, because that's obviously the idea.

[aggiesal]

50. Did you buy a pair? 🤔

[ProudMNDemocrat]

43. What? NO T?

Definitely a KNOCKOFF!

[Bobstandard]

33. The finished shoes won't resemble the samples

I’m guessing that any shoes Trump actually delivers to those dum enough to order will barely resemble the sample run that he showed off at sneaker-con. I’d bet on it but I doubt there any takers here.

[Deuxcents]

35. Yes..I thought they weren't gonna be delivered right away and the wait was a couple of months

For “the real” shoes

[keithbvadu2]

44. The T will be in comic sans.

[SarahD]

37. Hurry! Supplies are limited!

Uh... OK, maybe not that limited.

[TwilightZone]

46. Whenever a commercial says supplies are limited...

my partner and I joke that they're limited to the number they can sell.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

42. Here is a KNOCKOFF pair for $15,000

https://www.ebay.com/itm/126353771364?itmmeta=01HR0BZJNW0HNSCG5FC1EAV5HR&hash=item1d6b458b64:g QgAAOSwy~ll3tPW&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0OLdJGZsx9KnxoWg7FPWYJ%2B65ymXgmnyOrDlXWCtz9F5GeUk%2Bk%2BsqwGnAtUSGBZFQuekQyoXrd3CLoaIGpmDaCWSOI8U4KvmZrxYJHCn3n0SXxyalxKLlyE5cgnajhJMpH0UtAxFhL47osJrvcVSDkd9ysLHSqcX7bCZ2EKoJKpvvGUYFRRhJbKffFDQwVIH6JyrZNEDhSUGCgnHuAmDIiKgY9sVxQlYWMCebvvNmngnjY5hzA0jIRw1AG7BZd18NSEji75hwKtxXQIu9BM02%2BM%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4Kr_ovAYw

Definitely cheapy looking and painted. Who would pay that much? AN IDIOT!!!

[CatWoman]

52. and this idiot paid 9K for an autographed pair

?si=L4oPZBguz6YGOnAC

[JI7]

47. I thought the shoes were not even made yet

[brooklynite]

55. How can there be a 75% drop for a product that hasn't shipped yet?

[brooklynite]

56. A very cautionary point...

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1313&_nkw=trump+sneakers&_sacat=0

Products that are supposedly Trump Sneakers are actually selling above market price. The discounted items are basically attempts to con MAGA people into buying knockoffs.