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Google Fi: Buy/Activate Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4/Z Flip4, Trade-In S21/S20U 5G

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Up to $640 Credit

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Google Fi offers New Customers: Elevated Trade-In Values of Up to $640 for eligible Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G / S21 Devices valid toward the purchase / activation of a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4, Z Flip4 or S22 Series device with Port-In of an existing qualifying number to Google Fi (plans start at $20/month). Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member RyosukeFC for finding this deal.

Requirements:
  1. Must be a new Google Fi customer (someone who has never had Fi service or someone whose last day of Fi service took place more than 180 days before partaking in this promotion).
  2. Purchase / activate an eligible Samsung device on a new Google Fi line.
  3. Port-in a qualifying number to Google Fi within 30 days of the shipment confirmation email. Fi-to-Fi number transfers are not eligible.
  4. Activate your new device within 30 days of the shipment confirmation email and keep the qualifying phone active on Google Fi for 120 consecutive days. Plans start at $20/month (see details).
    • You must activate on the same Fi account used to purchase the phone or be a new member of the purchaser's group plan.
  5. Your trade-in credit will be issued as follows:
    • If you pay in full for your new device today: Trade-in value issued as a refund to your original payment method / credit card up to the pre-tax discounted price paid for your device; with the remainder issued as a Google Fi service credit to your account.
    • If you finance your new phone via monthly device payments: Complete trade-in value issued as Google Fi service credit applicable towards payment of your Google Fi service.
Elevated Trade-In Values:
  • Galaxy S20+: from $337.50 (cracked screen) to $445
  • Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G: from $485 (cracked screen) to $630
  • Galaxy S21: from $492.50 (cracked screen) to $640
  • Galaxy S21+: from $310 (cracked screen) to $475
Example:
  • Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra $599.99 (before tax)
  • - $599.99 (of $640 total) in trade-in value for Galaxy S21 (non-cracked screen) = $0 for device (tax not included)
  • + $40.01 in remain trade-in value (of $640 total) issued as Google Fi service credit to your active Fi account.
    • Price for service may vary depending on the Fi plan selection made by the customer. Plans start at $20/month (see details).

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Google Fi offers New Customers: Elevated Trade-In Values of Up to $640 for eligible Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G / S21 Devices valid toward the purchase / activation of a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4, Z Flip4 or S22 Series device with Port-In of an existing qualifying number to Google Fi (plans start at $20/month). Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member RyosukeFC for finding this deal.

Requirements:
  1. Must be a new Google Fi customer (someone who has never had Fi service or someone whose last day of Fi service took place more than 180 days before partaking in this promotion).
  2. Purchase / activate an eligible Samsung device on a new Google Fi line.
  3. Port-in a qualifying number to Google Fi within 30 days of the shipment confirmation email. Fi-to-Fi number transfers are not eligible.
  4. Activate your new device within 30 days of the shipment confirmation email and keep the qualifying phone active on Google Fi for 120 consecutive days. Plans start at $20/month (see details).
    • You must activate on the same Fi account used to purchase the phone or be a new member of the purchaser's group plan.
  5. Your trade-in credit will be issued as follows:
    • If you pay in full for your new device today: Trade-in value issued as a refund to your original payment method / credit card up to the pre-tax discounted price paid for your device; with the remainder issued as a Google Fi service credit to your account.
    • If you finance your new phone via monthly device payments: Complete trade-in value issued as Google Fi service credit applicable towards payment of your Google Fi service.
Elevated Trade-In Values:
  • Galaxy S20+: from $337.50 (cracked screen) to $445
  • Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G: from $485 (cracked screen) to $630
  • Galaxy S21: from $492.50 (cracked screen) to $640
  • Galaxy S21+: from $310 (cracked screen) to $475
Example:
  • Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra $599.99 (before tax)
  • - $599.99 (of $640 total) in trade-in value for Galaxy S21 (non-cracked screen) = $0 for device (tax not included)
  • + $40.01 in remain trade-in value (of $640 total) issued as Google Fi service credit to your active Fi account.
    • Price for service may vary depending on the Fi plan selection made by the customer. Plans start at $20/month (see details).

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Best option for you..

Get Get Google Voice numbers and port that to Google Fi.

Once you get the new phones activate them with the fi sims.

Then the fi sims can be removed and the tmobile sims put in. Keep fi sims in a drawer and cancel fi service after 4 months.

Fi phones come unlocked.
I understand you have chatted with the representative, but based on what people had reported in the past, I don't think the rep is correct. I have heard people having their promotions voided when they put the Google Fi sim into a different phone. It is up to you to decide who to trust, but I am just speaking based on what I have seen on the Google Fi deals during the past 2-3 years.

If you want to see what people had reported in the past, you can read through some of the replies on this thread: (I searched using the keyword void on that thread)

https://slickdeals.net/newsearch.php?showposts=1&threadid=14753963&q=void


You are missing the point here. Google Fi is offering lower trade in value, but their phone is also a few hundred bucks cheaper even if you added the cost for the service.

For BestBuy, S21 has a trade in value of $800 but the S22+/S22 Ultra is $800/$1000. Here, the S21 has a trade in value of $625 but the S22+/S22 Ultra is only $400/$600 + cost of service.

If you have a S21 (and not any other phone), it is still cheaper to do the Google Fi trade in vs the BestBuy trade in.

Edit: Fixed some sentences/wordings/grammars, etc.

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Oct 11, 2022
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frankel
Oct 11, 2022
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How come is everyone getting $580 trade in for S21? I'm choosing a trade in and seeing only $460 of value for no cracked screen S21 128gb
Oct 11, 2022
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Oct 11, 2022
YOU2HOU
Oct 11, 2022
48 Posts
Quote from frankel :
How come is everyone getting $580 trade in for S21? I'm choosing a trade in and seeing only $460 of value for no cracked screen S21 128gb
Too late, I traded s21 got 625
Oct 11, 2022
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Oct 11, 2022
gangan
Oct 11, 2022
384 Posts
What is the LATEST trade in value for s21 for getting s22 ultra? Cab someone please tell?
I do not see straight answer on Google Fi. I have to login and punch bunch of screens.
Why does the forum says expired? I see the 600 off is still there https://fi.google.com/about/promo...fIrQPs6QUA
Last edited by gangan October 11, 2022 at 01:48 PM.
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YOU2HOU
Oct 11, 2022
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Quote from gangan :
What is the LATEST trade in value for s21 for getting s22 ultra? Cab someone please tell?
I do not see straight answer on Google Fi. I have to login and punch bunch of screens.
Why does the forum says expired? I see the 600 off is still there https://fi.google.com/about/promo...fIrQPs6QUA
If you traded your s21 two weeks ago. You can get s22u for free + $25 fi credit, only need to pay tax and four months fee
Oct 11, 2022
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Oct 11, 2022
gangan
Oct 11, 2022
384 Posts
Quote from YOU2HOU :
If you traded your s21 two weeks ago. You can get s22u for free + $25 fi credit, only need to pay tax and four months fee
What is current offer?

Today even BB hiked s22 ultra pries. I guess they all want to lower next month.
Oct 11, 2022
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Oct 11, 2022
YOU2HOU
Oct 11, 2022
48 Posts
Quote from gangan :
What is current offer?

Today even BB hiked s22 ultra pries. I guess they all want to lower next month.
You can check by yourself, or just wait SD's notification about new deals
Oct 11, 2022
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gangan
Oct 11, 2022
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Quote from RyosukeFC :
You don't need to use the service if you don't want to, but just make sure you don't put the Google Fi sim in another phone because that will void the promotion.
Can I remove and put it aside and use another SIM instead?

Quote from femailbug :
If I travel internationally during the 4 months promo period with the phone. Does it void the promotion ?
Did you get any answer to this?

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Oct 11, 2022
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gangan
Oct 11, 2022
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I need help, Can someone please check prices and and maths, I want to pull the trigger today...

Bestbuy deal today
$1200 s22 ultra (active today is expired on BB)
$800 s21 trade in
$400 total + taxes with confirmed trade price

GoogleFi today
$600 to keep service for 4 months or $400 for 1 month (I am not clear how though https://fi.google.com/about/promo...fIrQPs6QUA)
-460 trade in for s21
$140 total + taxes +$80 for 4 months service - unsure of refund and amount
Oct 11, 2022
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hacklovemaster
Oct 11, 2022
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Quote from gangan :
I need help, Can someone please check prices and and maths, I want to pull the trigger today...

Bestbuy deal today
$1200 s22 ultra (active today is expired on BB)
$800 s21 trade in
$400 total + taxes with confirmed trade price

GoogleFi today
$600 to keep service for 4 months or $400 for 1 month (I am not clear how though https://fi.google.com/about/promo...fIrQPs6QUA)
-460 trade in for s21
$140 total + taxes +$80 for 4 months service - unsure of refund and amount
I would go with FI. 4 months is $100 after tax.

Trade in value is 460

Phone price is 600.

Total 600 + 100 - 460= 240 + (Cost of S21)
Last edited by hacklovemaster October 11, 2022 at 03:40 PM.
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Oct 12, 2022
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RyosukeFC
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Oct 12, 2022
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Quote from gangan :
Can I remove and put it aside and use another SIM instead?



Did you get any answer to this?
The initial activation has to be done with the Google Fi sim first. After activation, you can put another sim into the phone and put the Google Fi sim aside. Then just keep on paying for the service for 120 days. Once the promotion progress tracker said you have satisfied the promotion requirements, you can cancel your service or port it out if you want.
Oct 12, 2022
442 Posts
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Oct 12, 2022
Beatz
Oct 12, 2022
442 Posts
anyone get this wonky email from FI on the trade-in deal?

Hi Beatz,
We've had a look at your phone, and its value doesn't match the original estimate.
As you previously requested, we'll send your phone back to you because its value $625.00 turned out to be less than the trade-in estimate $625.00.
You can expect to receive your phone in 10 or fewer business days.

I look at my account and see a refund credit coming back to me of $599 and fi credit of $25.

very strange
Oct 12, 2022
128 Posts
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Oct 12, 2022
YellowMoonLA
Oct 12, 2022
128 Posts
Quote from Beatz :
anyone get this wonky email from FI on the trade-in deal?

Hi Beatz,
We've had a look at your phone, and its value doesn't match the original estimate.
As you previously requested, we'll send your phone back to you because its value $625.00 turned out to be less than the trade-in estimate $625.00.
You can expect to receive your phone in 10 or fewer business days.

I look at my account and see a refund credit coming back to me of $599 and fi credit of $25.

very strange
Refunded to your credit card?
Oct 12, 2022
1,690 Posts
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Oct 12, 2022
travelnshot
Oct 12, 2022
1,690 Posts
Quote from Beatz :
anyone get this wonky email from FI on the trade-in deal?

Hi Beatz,
We've had a look at your phone, and its value doesn't match the original estimate.
As you previously requested, we'll send your phone back to you because its value $625.00 turned out to be less than the trade-in estimate $625.00.
You can expect to receive your phone in 10 or fewer business days.

I look at my account and see a refund credit coming back to me of $599 and fi credit of $25.

very strange
So you got both the credit and the phone back?
Oct 12, 2022
442 Posts
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Oct 12, 2022
Beatz
Oct 12, 2022
442 Posts
Quote from YellowMoonLA :
Refunded to your credit card?
Yes, when I look at the status of the trade in it says $599 refund should be posted in 3-4 business days

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Oct 12, 2022
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Beatz
Oct 12, 2022
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Quote from travelnshot :
So you got both the credit and the phone back?
I just got the email this AM. I reached out to a CSR and they were zero help. I will wait and see what happens now in the upcoming days.

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