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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1. received on the same day as my order with Subject line: "Your Google Store trade in". Email contains trade in ID, what I'm trading in, and estimated value of my trade in
2 Second email recevied the day before my phone arrived with the Subject line: "You trade in kit is on the way" with USPS tracking link
1. received on the same day as my order with Subject line: "Your Google Store trade in". Email contains trade in ID, what I'm trading in, and estimated value of my trade in
2 Second email recevied the day before my phone arrived with the Subject line: "You trade in kit is on the way" with USPS tracking link
Anyway, just contacted Google and they said they are going to ship me a new kit within two days. Jesus so damn slow...my guess is that they never shipped it out or the original kit got lost along the way. Apparently there's a lot of fedex horror story with Google. It got me thinking, what happens if the trade-in phone gets lost during transit? Do Google still give you the credit or what?
1. received on the same day as my order with Subject line: "Your Google Store trade in". Email contains trade in ID, what I'm trading in, and estimated value of my trade in
2 Second email recevied the day before my phone arrived with the Subject line: "You trade in kit is on the way" with USPS tracking link
Been using the 6a for about 4 days now. I'd say it is about what I expected. Definitely has mor heft to it so it feels more premium. It's funny I went from the Essential PH-1 to the 3a and that felt like a cheap toy in comparison, and now the 6a is almost like going back to the PH-1.
Phone definitely gets hot when I push it. Sometimes I play Jurassic World and I think having GPS and the game running really taxes it. Noticed a bump up in performance but nothing insane. IMHO it's a steal if I end up only paying $150 for it, maybe less if I sell the ear buds, haven't decided on that. I have a set of SoundCore wireless ear buds that are still fine. It's just do I want to do away with the "bulk" of them. I don't think I'd go full $450 for this phone. Had I not got such a crazy trade-in offer I probably would've waited to see if they ran some killer sales on the 6 when the 7 drops or for sure a killer sale on the 6a.
Now I just need to box up the old hardware and find the closest USPS drop-off box.
Anyway, just contacted Google and they said they are going to ship me a new kit within two days. Jesus so damn slow...my guess is that they never shipped it out or the original kit got lost along the way. Apparently there's a lot of fedex horror story with Google. It got me thinking, what happens if the trade-in phone gets lost during transit? Do Google still give you the credit or what?
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I'm guessing they're purposely not sending the trade-in kits so that the higher value offers expire (they state the quote expires in 30 days), and people will need to trade in with the new lower values.
I think If you enter the IMEI2, it will work because it is compatible but only with physical sim not eSIM
Only 1 IMEI in settings
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Only 1 IMEI in settings
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Once done I started a chat with Visible to transfer my esim.
Lo and behold, Visible do not support esim on the Pixel 6a. I will have to move to a physical sim and once they order the physical sim, my line will stop working until I receive the new physical sim which uses 2 day shipping
What a mess!! They even have the phone for sale on their website. I guess you always get what you pay for.
So, a warning to any Visible customers out there that use esim
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