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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ETA: Went into my account settings and looked at payment methods, Google somehow had my PayPal account marked as closed. Removed from payment methods, re-added, all set now.
Trading in an iPhone 8 for $280. Also have an iPhone 7 but it's only 32GB, same boat as others, not included in the list for trade-in. If anyone has success getting the full $300 for a smaller iPhone 7, please quote me as a heads up. Thanks OP, and thanks to everyone else who added value in this thread...lots of good stuff in here.
CNET review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51L4Oa1
9to5google review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q34-cf7eLAk
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Item number on Amazon is B099FFTVRN. Looks like the price is up to $9 now but I can confirm that it works with the Aux input in my old Jeep.
- "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,
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i normally use the the back cam with flash to get best possible pic instead of selfie cam
when using selfie cam i suggest using it will illumination.
since pixel2 no one has ever beaten my pics.
i am do tons of side by side pics with other phones maybe about 10k in total side by side comparisons.
i also make sure the other phones have similar settings to make a fair comparison. i can tell u most ofther phones like iphone and samsung have terrible cameras and nothing more then fake hype
samsung ultra has a very decent zoom but with the last gcam 8.5 update pixel has closed the zoom gap to less then 5% and with the next sept update pixel will overtake on zoom. but the ultra is just a one trick pony and last in other ascpects
iphone on the otherhand is a zero trick pony can only take good pics in perfect lighting but is horrible in most situations. ip13pro is miserably bad in zoom HDR low light and moving pics.
4a and 4a5g can probably hold out an extra year for the 7a next summer, but it's a gamble
When the 5a came out, only iPhones had boosted trade in values, so the only time the 3 had a boosted trade in value was for the 4a5g
https://9to5google.com/2022/07/21...-trade-in/
https://9to5google.com/2021/12/09...in-iphone/
https://9to5google.com/2020/11/27...-trade-in/
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you are basically giving your phone away and buying a new priced one.
its a obvious bait and switch.
does anyone have first hand experiences with googles trade value?
looks like a scam at checkout
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