No one would start intentionally shopping for a phone priced that high just by looking at this ad. It has to be a more literal clickbait.
UPDATE: I did not consider the currency. The number of responses mentioning currency tells me that’s what I overlooked. I am no longer even mildly infuriated and am therfore a liar 😅
If your kid can just buy something in two clicks on your phone, let alone a $13,000 thing, it’s your fault for not securing your payment method and not setting sane credit card limits.
13K pesos, or about 650 dollars.
Well…I didn’t consider that. I tried to find the ad again but couldn’t make the same one appear. I did get a different Amazon ad which I clicked through and confirmed its price was in USD. I did assume I’d only see ads with prices in local currency but that could be a bad assumption.
I don’t think us mere mortals can hope to understand the mysteries of Amazon marketing services.
Could be in some currency besides dollars. Colombian pesos are ~4000 pesos to the dollar and use the dollar symbol as the currency symbol. I’m sure there are other currencies that are similar.
I see Mexican pesos as $ inside the country as well and either MXN or MX$ when talking to the US branch. 1USD = about 20 MX$. I’m seeing it at $700 USD on sale which would track at about 14k MXN but not sure who else has a similar conversion rate
Thought these ads were offering a way to launder money.
Doubt that’s US Dollars.
It is a 1k USD phone. I would hope Amazon prevents one click buying on very large or very expensive orders. (You can buy a literal house on Amazon)
I just checked though and uhhh the 7,000 USD tiny house has the 1 click buy button on it…
So just outrage for the sake of outrage
