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Costco In-Store Offer: Samsung Galaxy A50 for Sprint + $500 Costco Card Rebate Expired

$350
w/ Purchase (New + Upgrade Lines Only)
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Membership Wireless via Costco Wholesale [Warehouse Locator] is offering their 64GB Samsung Galaxy A50 Smartphone for Sprint + $500 Costco Shop Card Rebate via Online Redemption w/ purchase of this device w/ an MSRP price of $349.99 valid for New/Upgrade Lines only at participating Costco Wholesale Locations for Costco Members only. Thanks tryCatchDealExcption

Note, smartphone devices may vary depending on location + pricing. Offer valid only for Costco In-Warehouse purchase only.

As a Costco Membership Benefit, your activation or upgrade fee will be waived via bill credit ($30 value)

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Offer valid through October 1, 2020 or while supplies last. Rebate submission must be submitted within 30 days of purchase receipt date and allow up to 14 weeks for rebate processing. Accounts that cancel lines within 30 days of activating on promo pricing, may void savings. Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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https://membershipwireless.com/sprint-samsung

Validity: 9/10/2020 - 10/1/2020

New Costco offers to start today-- only valid in-store.

Buy a Samsung Galaxy A50 $350+Taxes and get a $500 Costco gift card via rebate.

Costco takes up to 14 weeks to process the Rebate Card.

For Sprint Plans, please refer: https://www.sprint.com/en/shop/pl...mitedPlans

Sprint unlocking Policy: 40 days
https://www.sprint.com/en/legal/u...evice.html

T&C is at the bottom-- new and existing lines are eligible;

Pro-tip
  1. Buy at least 4 lines on the Unlimited Basic Plan.
    • For 4 Lines = $100/month + Taxes.
  2. You get 4 Devices
    • 350 * 4 lines = 1400+Taxes
  3. Keep the services for 3 Months (i.e. till you get Costco Gift cards)
    • $500 * 4 Lines = $2000
What you get after 3 Months is,
  1. 4 Lines of new services on the Unlimited Basic Plan for 3 Months.
  2. You make roughly $100-$150 (after paying 4 lines + device cost), Plus you get 4 new Samsung A50
    1. You Pay = [ (3 Month * 100 (for 4 lines)) + Taxes ] + [ (4 device * 350) + Taxes ] = $1700 + Taxes
    2. You get = $2000
    3. Profit = $2000 - ($1700+taxes) & you get 4 new device.
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Last Edited by desi_babu_2010 September 16, 2020 at 08:19 AM
deal dead.
was never alive.
no stock.
nothing to see.
move on.





This is Highly YMMV.

Salt Lake Costco said that you must be a current Sprint customer. There are no A50's availible.

Please Provide Location Where You Found in-Stock A50's or were able to Order Online:

You can't open a new Sprint account via Wireless Advocates Kiosk at Costco. You must be a current Sprint customer to take advantage of this offer.

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Same risk involved with any of these other deals. The OP made a very good post about it but just missed some details.

$350 (A50 Phone) * 4 = $1400
$140 (4 sprint phone lines) * 3 months = $420 --- maybe 1 more month depending on how long rebate takes
$1400+$420=$1820 * 7.75% (sales tax in orange county, CA) = ~$1961 throw in another $20 for "fees" on the phone plan.

You're breaking about even with the $2000 costco gift cards. Take note costco gift cards are pretty liquid (gas, food, supplies). If you're using executive membership then you get 2% back. Either way, read the fine print yourself. No stipulations on the number of lines/phones you can buy, no stipulations on which plan you get. Almost no stipulations whatsoever.

Lots of ways to benefit such as... using a discount plan (military, 55+). Buy more than 4 phone lines, the more phone lines the cheaper $/line. But also if you don't fill out the forms correctly, $2000 down the drain.
Thank you! I did the math too and thought..... this is basically just 4 free phones. You did the middle plan, not the basic (basic doesn't include taxes or fees, so the $100 of the original listing isn't correct. You'd want to do something like 105+30 per month roughly). I assumed you'd need 4 months because..... life. You basically just get 4 "free" phones, but when you factor in how much time it takes to do all of this and the waiting period and hoping you don't forget to cancel the service before the 5th month...... not to mention for the resellers, the time to post the phones, find a buyer that is actually reasonable, etc. After you factor in all of the time, the stress, etc, it just doesn't seem worth it to me.
Time is something you cannot buy more of and I'm not sure I want to spend that precious commodity on buying/ reselling. But I mean..... 4 free phones. I'm an Apple guy, but I dig it. My use case for an android outside of buy/ resell: car gps. slap an old phone in the car with a cheap phone plan and you end up paying literally LESS than what it costs to buy the car GPS trackers with the service. lol.
"What you get after 3 Months is...."

You Pay = $1700 + Taxes (let's just call it $125-$175) so now you've paid $1875
You get = $2000
Profit = $2000 - ($1875) & you get 4 new device that you have to unload.
you have to deal with sprint to not only unlock all the devices, you have to deal with them dragging their feet while still billing you.

In short, you pay up to $1875, plus $500+ in PITA time wasting hassles dealing with sprint, the paper work, managing the BS, having to sell phones you don't want or need, and the regret that you made an easily avoidable mistake.

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erictom
09-10-2020 at 09:17 PM.
09-10-2020 at 09:17 PM.
best deal
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uthorns1976
09-10-2020 at 09:21 PM.
09-10-2020 at 09:21 PM.
Locked to Sprint forever???
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09-10-2020 at 09:22 PM.
09-10-2020 at 09:22 PM.
Quote from uthorns1976 :
Locked to Sprint forever???
for 50 days.
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09-10-2020 at 09:26 PM.
09-10-2020 at 09:26 PM.
Quote from uthorns1976 :
How much per month??

Can take months to get the rebate and it's in store only. Costco during pandemic. Fun times and I would have to buy a membership.
I have updated plan details + some additional details. See the above calculations, it's worth taking the membership.
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quantecipher
09-10-2020 at 09:27 PM.
09-10-2020 at 09:27 PM.
Quote from tryCatchDealExcption :
Sprint unlocking Policy: 50 days
Quote from uthorns1976 :
Locked to Sprint forever???
Quote from tryCatchDealExcption :
for 50 days.
They have changed it to 40 days. Stick Out Tongue Good deal, not too shabby. hug

https://www.sprint.com/en/legal/u...evice.html
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09-10-2020 at 09:29 PM.
09-10-2020 at 09:29 PM.
Quote from quantecipher :
They have changed it to 40 days. Good deal, not too shabby.

https://www.sprint.com/en/legal/u...evice.html [sprint.com]
Thanks, updated the details.
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09-10-2020 at 09:30 PM.
09-10-2020 at 09:30 PM.
sprint is the best.
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09-10-2020 at 09:30 PM.
09-10-2020 at 09:30 PM.
Quote from quantecipher :
They have changed it to 40 days. Stick Out Tongue Good deal, not too shabby. hug

https://www.sprint.com/en/legal/u...evice.html
Better than unlocked S10e for $399 that was FP the other day??

Can cancel membership at any time for refund.
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09-10-2020 at 09:30 PM.
09-10-2020 at 09:30 PM.
Will the galaxy a50 work on other carriers?
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09-10-2020 at 09:33 PM.
09-10-2020 at 09:33 PM.
Quote from imlkrsfn2 :
Will the galaxy a50 work on other carriers?

Once you pay off.. Sprint will unlock the device.. 40 days after opening line..
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09-10-2020 at 09:36 PM.
09-10-2020 at 09:36 PM.
$350 plus tax and get $500 back?? Has to be a catch.
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