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“If you already had $5,000, why didn’t you just keep it instead of going through all this?”
“…”
They probably bought it for $2000 and thought they were making a profit.
The thing about scamming the stupid is your story doesn't even have to make sense. It's fish in a barrel.
This is the most likely one “we’ll give you a discount and Trump will be good for backing the rest of it. A thank you for supporting him”
“We need $2,000 and in return we’ll give you something worth even more money” but also it’s not even a trade of currency and service but literally money for money.
They probably hoped it would turn into a collectible? I would buy it for $1 for the laughs, but that's about it. It would make a great troll note for monopoly.
I have a roll of toilet paper with his face on each ticket, that roll is worth more (both financially and practically) than that bill is