Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 5G - $1,000 off at AT&T

lol a 3 year payment plan for a phone

I did a trade-in with samsung instead. My trades are S21+, s21, note 20 ultra and pixel 4. My total was $34.99 plus tax. these phones are all free. I'm going all out with foldable and flip 3.

I'm sorry where do I get the coupon code? Or is that just the promo of $1000 off with a qualified device?
Thank you for all your help!!

it would annoy me to fk and back to have to keep opening and closing this thing.

You don't trade-in with Bestbuy, $400 is bestbuy offer and they put it as down payment. Trade-in is with AT&T, we go to AT&T store with a qualified mobile phone (which is at least $95 worth) and then trade-in using our ph# and coupon code. $1000 is paid via monthly bill credits over 36 months.

I am so bummed. I lost my Note 20 Ultra on a fishing trip 2 weeks ago and replaced it. Wish I knew about this deal.

If you go directly to Samsung.com, you can get a better deal with a trade in! Also, you can click on "education discount", which they don't verify, and get more $$ off!!

Only T-Mobile does that I believe.


AT&T / Verizon require you to have the monthly phone payments for the full term to continue the bill credits.

This is more of a PSA.

TL;DR: DO NOT MAIL YOUR TRADE IN DEVICES. TRADE IN AT A COR LOCATION.

Folks need to understand that these trade in promos are designed to give AT&T almost 100% leverage to renege on the promo and you having 0% leverage to walk away if things go sour on you. These trade in promotions are designed to basically steal your current device (and reselling them on the secondary market for a tidy profit) and make you pay full sticker price for the new devices and if you don't pay up, getting your credit trashed. These are steal and extortion schemes.

Remember this, you are giving your currently working device to AT&T simply based simply on their promise that they will evaluate it honestly. If you disagree with their assessment, tough luck. You are SOL. Do you trust this handshake agreement with AT&T where they cannot lose and you have everything to lose?

Your trade in can be rejected or under valued based on the whims of AT&T / HYLA MOBILE. Here are the list of reasons:

-- AT&T will claim that your trade in devices never reached them.
-- AT&T will claim that your trade in was under valued because your screen is broke, you device's charging port is broke, the device still has activation lock on it, the device's storage does not match what you entered when you initiated the trade, their systems shows that it is reported as lost or stolen or have a not fully unpaid flag on it, etc etc etc
-- AT&T will not send you labels to send them your trade in devices or will delay it where you now are in serious danger of them not getting your trade ins within the 30 days stipulated window.
-- AT&T will send you a mailer for you to send the traded in devices which is flimsy and almost designed to damage the devices during transit. Do the math. Who benefits from devices damaged during transit?

It should not matter if the device you traded in has more or less storage than you indicated as long as the base model matches. If you forgot to take off the activation lock, give the customer a change to do so remotely. If the traded in device has damage, allow the customer to send in another device or allow for a new customer paid evaluation. If folks send the trade ins to wrong address, is it so difficult to automatically flag these IMEIs and reroute them to correct destination? AT&T could give customers 14 days AFTER EVALUATION of their trade ins to walk away if they are not going to get full bill credits. The current 14 day walk away period after new device activation is laughably rigged because AT&T ensures that no evaluation is done on time within that initial 14 day period. There are many ways AT&T can ensure that good faith compliance with their program results in customers getting their bill credits. But AT&T chooses to do nothing.

AT&T says that your traded in devices are send to recycling. But, if AT&T will not honor the promo by under valuing the trade ins (which completely negates the promo that you were depending on), they should put these devices in a separate queue, notify the customer of this deficiency, give the customer some options to correct these deficiencies or allow the customers to walk away from the contract and return your traded in devices.

If you still want to do these types of trade in deals, keep all emails/receipts. Read the fine print and make sure you tick all the check boxes. Never do trade ins via mail, ONLY at a corporate AT&T store. If one does not take them, go to another or another. If no corporate store takes them, return the new phones and walk away. Let AT&T find another sucker. That receipt you get from AT&T listing the condition of your trade in devices and the trade in value to be assigned is your ONLY PROOF to fight them. And be ready to file FCC complaint and/or hitting them with a dispute notice and in person arbitration. Don't bother calling customer service or HYLA.

Don't believe for a second that this switcheroo of your trade in values is solely HYLA's doing. They are probably encouraged and abetted by AT&T to engage in this unethical practice because ultimately it is AT&T that benefits from this. This is a zero sum game. Every dollar you loose on bill credits goes into AT&T's pocket.

Edit (Add): If you get your trade in dollars correctly after mailing them in, count your lucky stars. The ATT & Reddit forums are littered with complaints about trade ins.

How were they all free?

$3240 after the 36 month bill credit with the cheapest plan. You have to be the dumbest mfer to buy this.

Your math makes zero sense. You can't add the plan to the cost of the phone.