Donald Trump loses 359k on counterfeit MAGA hats on eBay. 51,000 fake hats sold
Donald Trump holds a trademark on many products for the text “Make America Great Again“. The most famous being the red hats.
A search on eBay for the trademark for hats brings up thousands of results. Here we take a look at the first 200 results returned for the keyword “Make America Great Again Hats“.
According to the data, Mr. Trump has lost $359,000 on 51,000 counterfeit hats sold on that platform.
The great thing about eBay is that they show sales data. See image below. With that we can calculate how much money Trump lost per listing:
The image above is the top seller of fake Donald trump hats on eBay. Even though it says shipped from the United States, the feedback of the seller shows the person is actually in China. Same thing for the seller linked below:
I went through all the first 200 listings and only calculated the ones that sold above 50 hats. There were a lot that sold below, and after the first 200 results, you can find hundreds of listings with low amount of sales. To save time and to make a point on counterfeit goods, we are only going to focus on the big ones for this post.
We found 7 hats that sold more then 10k gross:
Link | Amount Sold | Price | Gross Sales |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Make-America-Great-Again-Hat-Donald-Trump-2016-Republican-Adjustable-Mesh-Cap-/191641907875 | 8989 | 6.95 | $62,474 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Make-America-Great-Again-Donald-Trump-Hat-Cap-Republican-2016-US-President-USA-/361554132373 | 3237 | 9.31 | $30,136 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Make-America-Great-Again-Donald-Trump-2016-Hat-Cap-Red-Republican-/122008873540 | 2520 | 8.99 | $22,655 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAKE-AMERICA-GREAT-AGAIN-RED-Foam-Front-Mesh-HAT-with-Rope-Trump-/201433267657 | 2537 | 8.29 | $21,032 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/USA-Cap-Donald-Trump-Make-America-Great-Again-Hat-Red-Republican-State-Embroider-/272152757103 | 2625 | 7.95 | $20,869 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Make-America-Great-Again-Hat-Donald-Trump-2016-Republican-Adjustable-Mesh-Cap-/201412986696 | 2052 | 9.99 | $20,499 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Make-America-Great-Again-Print-Hat-Donald-Trump-2016-Republican-Adjustable-Cap-/252128794993 | 1781 | 7.99 | $14,230 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TRUMP-2016-Make-America-Great-Again-Donald-Hat-Daddy-Cap-White-Republican-/131846972831 | 989 | 8.99 | $8,891 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TRUMP-2016-Make-America-Great-Again-Donald-Hat-Daddy-Cap-Republican-/131846930962 | 811 | 8.99 | $7,291 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Make-America-Great-Again-Donald-Trump-2016-Hat-Cap-Republican-/112020445652 | 769 | 8.99 | $6,913 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAKE-AMERICA-GREAT-AGAIN-White-Full-TWILL-HAT-Trump-/201396897394 | 833 | 7.69 | $6,406 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Make-America-Great-Again-Hat-Donald-Trump-2016-Republican-Hat-Cap-Red-/172224856257 | 2508 | 2.49 | $6,245 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Make-America-Great-Again-Hat-Donald-Trump-2016-Republican-Hat-Cap-Black-New-/182163909780 | 1516 | 3.99 | $6,049 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TRUMP-2016-Make-America-Great-Again-Donald-Hat-Cap-Black-Republican-/122021794876 | 644 | 8.99 | $5,790 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Donald-Trump-Make-America-Great-Again-Hat-2016-Republican-Adjustable-Mesh-Cap-/182188327830 | 891 | 6.49 | $5,783 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Republican-MAKE-AMERICA-GREAT-AGAIN-Black-CAP-HAT-Donald-Trump-2016-EMBROIDERED-/171983939425 | 394 | 13.48 | $5,311 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAKE-AMERICA-GREAT-AGAIN-HAT-Donald-Trump-for-President-2016-Campaign-Button-Cap-/191671412692 | 610 | 8.49 | $5,179 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAKE-AMERICA-GREAT-AGAIN-Donald-Trump-Hat-Republican-2016-Navy-White-Mesh-Cap-/191918657917 | 324 | 15.6 | $5,054 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TRUMP-2016-Make-America-Great-Again-Donald-Hat-Cap-Republican-/112020444306 | 496 | 8.99 | $4,459 |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TRUMP-PENCE-Hat-2016-MAKE-AMERICA-GREAT-AGAIN-Republican-President-Navy-Cap-/191924225979 | 282 | 14.98 | $4,224 |
What do you think? Leave a comment below.
BabyBoomer - October 24, 2016
Trump is not in this for the money. He, more than likely, is pleased to see so many people wanting these walking billboards which scream the wearers’ support for his candidacy.
Anonymous - June 16, 2017
What happened to the trademark? Status 790 – Cancellation Pending