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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I got a S21 FE and it's okay, I never used a Pixel in my life, maybe I'm missing out?
I do what to try one but the issues always scared me off but Samsung phone IMO aren't as good as the old (Note 9) IMO.
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Have a 4a 5G.
Impulse bought this deal yesterday. ~180 for upgrade + Buds. Seems pretty good.
But w/ fingerprint on back + still unlimited decent quality storage, I rethought it and canceled.
With young kids its still been nice to just open Photos, and scroll back the last 7 years and pull up any photo I want
If I was still on 3a cycle, sure makes pretty good sense. (Especially w the current value)
I'll probably revisit the decision when the Pixel 7 cycle in a year from now.
P.S. Yes I also have a Synology where I backup all my photos (and my wife's Iphone) to, and been meaning to have that cloud backup to a OneDrive account)
- "If you return the phone you bought with your trade-in, you'll receive the trade-in value as a Google Store credit in your account."
So yes, this does indirectly mean that if you have a Pixel 3a you don't want and you value Google Store credit - which can be used to buy smartphones and other products - you can kind of game the system by buying the Pixel 6a with the trade-in kit, trade in the Pixel 3a, and then return the Pixel 6a to get a $300 Google Store credit.I hope this helps,
Tofu Vic
The 6a doesn't seem like a huge upgrade from the 4a 5G to be honest, you could trade in a Pixel 3a and still get $300 off from what I hear. Unless you hate your 4a 5G and just want to get rid of it.
Side note, I checked on fixing the Pixel 4 and due to the screen Google used for that model, the repair is about $295. Way more than I paid for the device. So that's why I'd risk a trade-in. Even if they reduced it to $50 that's better than sitting in my drawer.
When they note "All Carriers" will they allow phones locked to lets say Verizon?
When they note "All Carriers" will they allow phones locked to lets say Verizon?
The biggest selling point for me is that they're very easy to flash with CalyxOS or Graphene and obtain some privacy from all the market surveillance that comes with stock phones. But you still retain the full security of the locked bootloader and Titan security chip.
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I have an iPhone 6 with a badly cracked screen and poor battery. it still works and I just factory reset. It apparently has a $100 trade-in value.
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