When will I get my trade-in mailer to return my phone? From the trade-in confirmation screen: "You should receive a prepaid Trade In kit within seven business days after your new phone ships. Use this kit to send us your old phone". You will get an email confirmation that the mailer is being shipped to you, and that email will contain tracking info.
How does payment work with this trade-in? You pay for the entire phone up-front. The trade-in value will be credited back to your method of payment after your trade has been mailed in and assessed for value.
Does the trade-in mailer come with the delivery of the Pixel 6a/buds? No, it is a separate mailing.
Get 10% back in Store credit on Google Store purchases
Sweeten the deal and get a 10% google store credit for future google store purchases, if you sign up for Google One 2TB storage plan for 1 month (cost is $9.99/mo)
https://one.google.com/
WARNING: This relates to the 10% discount for purchasing 2 TB of Google One Storage. If you are upgrading your current paid plan, such as 100 GB, to the 2 TB plan, you will not receive the 10% credit for your purchases until the current billing cycle ends. Only then will purchases provide you the 10% credit 30 days after your order ships. Your subscription will immediately update to 2 TB but your billing account is still your old plan until the next billing cycle. You need to either wait to buy the phone, risking it goes OOS, or use a different Google account.
WARNING: I just upgraded and it gave me 10% credit. To the extent the above warning implies that you must wait to buy phone with store credit, this appears to be incorrect. You do may need to wait 30-60 days to receive the credit, depending on when your billing period starts and when the credit issues, which means you may be hit with a $9.99 billing cycle or two before the credit shows up, but $50 - $9.99 (x2) = $30.02 net profit if this occurs. The real danger is forgetting to cancel, set a Google calendar entry to downgrade/cancel your Google One. YMMV.
Q: What's a good case?
A: I bought this one because I wanted more protection and to show off the beautiful sage green color... and because Amazon has next day delivery and I want it NOW: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&
I saw a $105 Refund Credited to PayPal / credit card. What is this?
Some are seeing a partial refund/credit, however this has typically been charged to the account again (i.e. you won't keep it as an extra discount). Speculation is this has something to do with the Pixel Buds portion of the offer. This is not believed to be related to the trade-in aspect of this offer.
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the reviews stating the slow finger print reader is concerning.
If i can go back in time, I would not buy the pixel 6 because the fingerprint reader is embarrassingly slow and misreads if you change lighting conditions. It's simply awful and makes checking the phone a chore. I hate it. No screen protector issue, not my phone (it was exchanged), and it's a common complaint. If you are coming from a phone that had even an average sensor, this will annoy you to no end.
The Google Tensor chips have such unreliable and poor mobile connections that a significant number of users have to reboot regularly or toggle airplane mode on/off just to get data working. It always happens when i drive. Check reddits pixel subs for more info. It doesn't look like any of those issues will be fixed because they simply aren't fixed in the flagships.
It seems to be an issue when you transition towers, so if you travel a lot or travel through dead zones, it'll happen more frequently. An unacceptable problem most in-studio reviews don't address, but real-world users struggle with, and have been since launch.
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The unlocked version, came out to $482 total
With trade in, and 5% back to Discover via Paypal = it's $178 total w/ ear buds.
Not bad
They even offer $100 for my iPhone 6 from 8 years ago.
Now they will sell me a new 6a plus throw in Pixel buds for $448, and they'll give me $300 for the old phone. This is an outstanding deal.
I would be all over this if I were not waiting for the Pixel 7 Pro.
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edit- I purchased unlocked without a Google Fi plan
Bought this deal because I was quoted $260 for a cracked screen 4a5G. Figured I'd rather trade-in for the extra $90
I'll test out both the 6 Pro and 6A to see which one to keep and which one to send back.
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There are 2 flavors of 5G cellular, millimeter wave (mmwave) and sub-6 (ghz), referring to the wavelengths/frequency bands the particular 5g channels exist on.
Mmwave is ridiculously fast, like 1gigabit/s, but is practically non-existent with a few exceptions.
Sub-6ghz 5g, includes c-band and mid-band frequencies that has actually good coverage/range, and can get up to 100's of megabits per second. But anywhere from 2x to 10x faster speeds than LTE (4G).
TMobile's 5g is mostly sub-6ghz and is widely available.
Verizon went with mmwave 5g first, but was limited to literally a few streets in downtown areas. Only in the last year or so did Verizon start their own sub-6ghz deployment and are playing catch up to T-Mobile.
If your discover is linked to paypal, you link google to paypal, and then select your discover card as payment - it does the 5% back automatically
I placed an order and figured I'll share how much I paid (without sales tax), just in case it helps other decide or helps others maximize their own purchase. If I'm missing anything, let me know!
$449 (Google Pixel 6a)
+ $99 (Google Pixel Buds A-Series)
- $99 (promotion of free Google Pixel Buds A-Series)
- $8.98 (2% cash back through third-party web portal)
- $13.47 (3% cash back for using third-party cash back credit card)
- $300 (Google Pixel 3a trade-in)
= $126.55
Note: Earns $44.90 Google Store credit (Google One Premium membership of 10% cash back for Google Store purchases). If I consider this credit as good as cash, then the phone + earbuds = $81.65.
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By the way, Discover credit card is offering 5% cash back as its current category if you check out via PayPal. (I already used up my $75 in cash back for this quarter.)
I hope this helps,
Tofu Vic
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