In a surprise happening, a leaked screenshot of the OnePlus Nord Amazon listing has been doing the rounds on social media. The screenshot of Amazon India’s search page shows the OnePlus Nord priced Rs.19,999 ($270). After a flurry of tweets from certain verified accounts, tipsters and OnePlus’s CEO Carl Pei took to Twitter to respond to the claims quashing them as fake and targeted campaign against the company.
Things didn’t stop there as “Nord at 19,999” strangely started trending on Twitter. This obviously led to people getting excited about the price. The listing, as shown on Slashleaks, shows an Amazon search page with Nord listed on it. The image of the device, however, is replaced with the Invite card that OnePlus sold via the e-commerce site.
Who started this?
The listing shows that OnePlus Nord has 5G enabled and comes in 6GB RAM/64GB storage with a price tag of Rs.19,999. People started believing the trend on Twitter as certain Verified accounts dubbed as trackers posted the screenshot at the same time leading to suspicion. However, tipsters like Ishan Agarwal were quick to quash the claims who said the listing to be fake and said that 6GB/64GB variant never existed in the first place.
He added that it was a pre-planned trend by someone from the opposite tent to create a fake hype on Twitter using the bot accounts. This was later clarified officially by one of the OnePlus founder, Carl Pei, who himself said that this could be a targeted campaign against the company.