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Costco Warehouse: Purchase iPhone 11/XR/XS (TMO) + Trade-In + New Line & Get

via One Time Bill Credit/Prepaid Card

Up to $580 Back

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Membership Wireless via Costco Warehouse [Warehouse Locator] is offering Up to $580 Back via Rebate (One Time Bill Credit + Virtual Prepaid Card) when you purchase an Apple iPhone 11, XR or XS w/ New Line Activation for T-Mobile + Qualifying Apple iPhone Trade-In (listed below) valid at participating Costco Warehouse Wireless Center locations. Thanks ffly45

Note, offer valid only at Costco Warehouse. Device/carrier selection may vary by locations.

Qualifying/Eligible Trade-In Devices (Up to $580; depending on condition)
  • Apple iPhone XS/XS Max/XR or X
  • Apple iPhone 8/8 Plus
  • Apple iPhone 7/7 Plus
  • Apple iPhone 6s/6s Plus
Also, get 1-Year Apple TV+ for Free w/ your new iPhone purchase [Info]

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Offer valid through November 14, 2019 or while promotion last. Qualified activation at Wireless Center + New Line of service and qualifying trade-in phone is required at time of redemption. Allow 6-8 weeks for rebate processing; max 4/account. Please refer to the forum thread for all internal discussion/advice on offer. Ask a Wireless Sales Expect for complete offer details/qualifications - Discombobulated

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Membership Wireless via Costco Warehouse [Warehouse Locator] is offering Up to $580 Back via Rebate (One Time Bill Credit + Virtual Prepaid Card) when you purchase an Apple iPhone 11, XR or XS w/ New Line Activation for T-Mobile + Qualifying Apple iPhone Trade-In (listed below) valid at participating Costco Warehouse Wireless Center locations. Thanks ffly45

Note, offer valid only at Costco Warehouse. Device/carrier selection may vary by locations.

Qualifying/Eligible Trade-In Devices (Up to $580; depending on condition)
  • Apple iPhone XS/XS Max/XR or X
  • Apple iPhone 8/8 Plus
  • Apple iPhone 7/7 Plus
  • Apple iPhone 6s/6s Plus
Also, get 1-Year Apple TV+ for Free w/ your new iPhone purchase [Info]

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
Offer valid through November 14, 2019 or while promotion last. Qualified activation at Wireless Center + New Line of service and qualifying trade-in phone is required at time of redemption. Allow 6-8 weeks for rebate processing; max 4/account. Please refer to the forum thread for all internal discussion/advice on offer. Ask a Wireless Sales Expect for complete offer details/qualifications - Discombobulated

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Yes, after the Costco associate takes out the phone, grab it and run out the store with it. If you are fast enough, this will work...
READ FOLKS

READ

Most of the questions asked here are either in the promotion posting, or are just stupid. Read before posting.

The document tells you which items will be accepted for trade. You can NOT do a IP6, or SE, or Samsung, etc.

It really does not matter how much they give you for the trade. The total rebate you will get will total $580.

Yes, this promotion is for people adding T-Mobile new lines. Duh! Think!

Simple math tells you that trading in an XS or XR is probably not going to make sense in most cases. So, if then don't. Duh!

Nobody has asked yet, but yes the phone must be paid for. And yes it must work. And yes it must not be broken. Duh!

And yes, you must have a Costco card to pay for the phone.

How much does ___ cost at Costco? Easy - go to the website. Prices are listed.
iPhone 8 through Apple gets you $220
iPhone XS through Apple gets you $500

iPhone 8 through this Costco deal gets you $580
iPhone XS through this Costco deal gets you $580

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Nov 8, 2019
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yqjiang
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Quote from tlinus :
are you saying that I could only get it down to $120 by autopay? yesterday Costco already mentioned getting me 3rd line free. could you show me the math so I could understand.
I think your current $130=75(1st line)+55(2nd line) w/o Autopay discount. If you haven't set up autopay, do it now. If you have, then just wait for your first bill. It should clear things out and become $120.

BTW, lucky you get the 3rd line show up know, I still don't see "$25 of 19 Q4 Free Line On Magenta" thing in my plan even though I added 3rd line when the promotion was on.
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tlinus
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Quote from yqjiang :
Oh,oh, don't over-read.

Chaoss is referring some professional shipping company/person will put a battery inside warning sticker when they handle battery-contained shippment. It is a practice there, but, for this promotion, you do NOT have a sticker and do NOT need one as well.

What you have sound right: you only have a prepaid label. It is your responsibility to find proper packaging material, say a box or bubbled envelop to ship your phone. Costco will give you no shipping supply to ship your trade-in phone.
yqjiang, thanks for the clarification. I wonder if that is how it supposes to work? the shipping label only shows the IMEI of the trade in phone without any link to the new line phone number. my question is if all trade in phones are only bound to my account and has no link to any newline phone number i opened?
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Quote from tlinus :
yqjiang, thanks for the clarification. I wonder if that is how it supposes to work? the shipping label only shows the IMEI of the trade in phone without any link to the new line phone number. my question is if all trade in phones are only bound to my account and has no link to any newline phone number i opened?
Yes, what you have is right. Check the Wiki attachment. Everyone got the same kind of trade-in paper.

I understand your concern that the trade in somehow feel decoupled from your new line/phone. But I think Coscto/T-Mobile may internally have a link with them. So one of the qualification condition is to check if your trade-in phone is indeed traded in before they issue you the credit for new phone purchase.
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tlinus
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Quote from yqjiang :
Oh,oh, don't over-read.

Chaoss is referring some professional shipping company/person will put a battery inside warning sticker when they handle battery-contained shippment. It is a practice there, but, for this promotion, you do NOT have a sticker and do NOT need one as well.

What you have sound right: you only have a prepaid label. It is your responsibility to find proper packaging material, say a box or bubbled envelop to ship your phone. Costco will give you no shipping supply to ship your trade-in phone.
Quote from yqjiang :
Yes, what you have is right. Check the Wiki attachment. Everyone got the same kind of trade-in paper.

I understand your concern that the trade in somehow feel decoupled from your new line/phone. But I think Coscto/T-Mobile may internally have a link with them. So one of the qualification condition is to check if your trade-in phone is indeed traded in before they issue you the credit for new phone purchase.
yqjiang, Thanks. I will ship my trade in phones today. I already fully charge them and wipe out everything. I don't think i need to ship anything else except the phone, right? i mean no charger and cable
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PasonTrillium
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Quote from jwong :
So I still haven't seen where it says the offer has been extended to the 14th. Is that in writing anywhere?
https://membershipwireless.com/offer8
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Quote from Ganga1985 :
Trade in Phones valued at = 59+69+109+109 = 346. Not sure if I can get more than those values anywhere for them
Simple in Apple, they valued my iPhone 6s for $100 Apple GC ( vs miserably $36 at Costco, https://www.apple.com/shop/trade-in). Your iPhone 7/7 Plus should be $150/$200. You don't have to claim them in perfect condition to get that evaluation. Besides, I know people can see at even better price at Craiglist. So, just use Apple price, unless you say they are very poorly maintained,

"Iphone 6s plus, Iphone 7, Iphone 7 plus(2)"=100+150+200*2=$650

Feed back this number to your calculation, each iPhone 11 net cost change from 279 (=$1116.5/4) to $441(=($1116.5+650)/4). Nobody call it a bad deal, considering you get alose to half price and there is one Pro Max, but just make the math correct and not get false joy.
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Quote from tlinus :
yqjiang, Thanks. I will ship my trade in phones today. I already fully charge them and wipe out everything. I don't think i need to ship anything else except the phone, right? i mean no charger and cable
Right. They only need the phone itself. Do remember to cut out the "Receipt" and put it into the box and secure the phone well so it won't be phyically damaged in its way.
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coldworld
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This may sound silly, but wouldn't the phone be unlocked the minute you buy the phone since you paid full for the phone upfront?

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chaoss
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Quote from coldworld :
This may sound silly, but wouldn't the phone be unlocked the minute you buy the phone since you paid full for the phone upfront?
no, it will not be unlocked.
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spinsan
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Quote from hasan61 :
In my case, I did not say anything about the cancellation. I just tried to buy 4 lines by myself, and I do not know what triggered him.

I also had a mismatch of what rep and chat rep said about inventory. They had 5 in stock about which the kiosk rep was not updated. So, I request him to check with management, and then after checking, he told me his list had it wrong.
you might have asked 4 iphone with a brand new account and not porting any number...that's clear RED FLAG for sure unless you're immigrant just landed a week back
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sdsjk1
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I bought 3 phones & the Costco rep did not fill out the 2 page promo. There is a different control number on each set of pages. Is that control number tied to one of the new phones? Or can I just fill in any of the 3 IMEI numbers? Do I mail in these 2 pages with the trade in? Big thank you for the help!!
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hasan61
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Quote from spinsan :
you might have asked 4 iphone with a brand new account and not porting any number...that's clear RED FLAG for sure unless you're immigrant just landed a week back
I think that's kind of what happened. Although I was going to port 1 number and open 3 new lines with a new account, I did not get the chance to tell the details.
And, about the immigrant part- its also true for me. Just put "year" in place of "week".

Anyway, a lot of people here doing so, right? Opening a new account and adding 4 new lines.
Last edited by hasan61 November 8, 2019 at 11:00 AM.
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Quote from sdsjk1 :
I bought 3 phones & the Costco rep did not fill out the 2 page promo. There is a different control number on each set of pages. Is that control number tied to one of the new phones? Or can I just fill in any of the 3 IMEI numbers? Do I mail in these 2 pages with the trade in? Big thank you for the help!!
Control number is the key for Tmobile/assurant/costco to process the rebate, it's unique for each transaction so make sure you have them right, normally costco rep will hand write/key in the phone no and IMEI on each of these rebate submission pages.

mail in trade in device separately and each mail in receipt has the IMEI of correspnding trade in device so dont mix match these mail in receipt to avoid the rebate processing delay

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I used this deal to trade in an iPhone 7 for an iPhone 11 Pro Max 64GB. Process was super easy. I am just not thrilled about paying $70 a month for Magenta. Will I be able to switch this to the $25 T-Mobile Connect plan once it's available? Or am I better off cancelling with T-Mobile once I've spent the $580 and switching back to Mint?

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