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 3a seems like a no-brainer
the 5a seems close but for $150 why not. plus the 5a heats up like crazy when videoing 4k
or maybe I should hold on to my 5a in hopes of a similar deal when the 7a comes out?
Also, I'm typing this on my Pixel 6 (now the second Pixel I've owned). Other than the terrible fingerprint reader, I love it. I use pattern unlock as a workaround for the fingerprint reader.
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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.
I sold the 4a 5g after needing to send it in for a bad flash (my fault - bad custom rom flash.) I sold it after they kept sending me refurb units w/ major issues as replacements. After insisting that they send me a new one back I already had a new daily driver so sold that & bought a pixel 3a from ebay for $42(as a back up & the mess around w/ customs.) That transaction didn't seem so hot back then cause I wanted a fast & painless sale on that NIB 4a5g on swappa so had priced it about $100 less than then next new one. I think that thing sold after like 2 views.
This trade makes it a lot better. I don't care to do the math but it's definitely a net positive.
& oh yeah. I picked up my 2XL used on Amazon(from an SDD post) for ~$145 just to mess around with. LOL
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the 3a seems like a no-brainer
the 5a seems close but for $150 why not. plus the 5a heats up like crazy when videoing 4k
or maybe I should hold on to my 5a in hopes of a similar deal when the 7a comes out?
The 5a will most likely see high trade-in when the 8a comes out. Hard to predict perfectly though.
Though, boo, now he has a better phone than me (5a) again.
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