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Best Buy: Trade-In Eligible iPhone 11, Get 128GB Google Pixel 7 (Unlocked)

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Best Buy offers $525 Trade-In Credit for an eligible Apple iPhone 11 Smartphone towards the purchase of a Google Pixel 7 / 7 Pro Unlocked Smartphone on sale starting at $499 / $749 (respectively). Shipping is free (see note below).

Thanks to Slickdeals staff member actorps1 for finding this deal.
  • Note: If you choose to purchase a Pixel 7 device on sale priced lower than the $525 trade-in value (i.e. the Pixel 7 128GB model for $499), the trade-in process cannot be conducted online and must be carried out in-store. You will be issued the remaining amount that is left over from your trade-in credit (if any, after your device cost + tax is deducted from the $525 trade-in credit) in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card.
To see the current value, please select the 'Check your trade-in value' tab and apply the Apple iPhone 11 Smartphone. Offer valid on other trade-in eligible devices (trade-in values may vary; see complete list here).

Available options:
  • Google Pixel 7 (Unlocked)
    • 128GB (various colors) $499 - $525 iPhone 11 trade-in value = Free + receive Best Buy Gift Card w/ remaining trade-in value amount (if any, after device cost + tax)
    • 256GB (various colors) $599 - $525 iPhone 11 trade-in value = $74
  • Google Pixel 7 Pro (Unlocked)
    • 128GB (various colors) $749 - $525 iPhone 11 trade-in value = $225
    • 256GB (various colors) $849 - $525 iPhone 11 trade-in value = $324
    • 512GB (various colors) $949 - $525 iPhone 11 trade-in value = $424

Editor's Notes

Written by RevOne | Staff
  • This deal will require you to trade in an eligible Apple iPhone 11 Smartphone device.
  • Trade-in device must be in good condition (signs of normal use, light wear and tear) and not have any damage, cracks or LCD bruising to receive full trade in amount/value
  • You may drop off your trade-in device when your product is ready for pickup at your local store. Condition of product will be evaluated at that time.
  • Offer valid while promotional price/trade-in value last.
Additional Notes
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details/trade-in offers.

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Best Buy offers $525 Trade-In Credit for an eligible Apple iPhone 11 Smartphone towards the purchase of a Google Pixel 7 / 7 Pro Unlocked Smartphone on sale starting at $499 / $749 (respectively). Shipping is free (see note below).

Thanks to Slickdeals staff member actorps1 for finding this deal.
  • Note: If you choose to purchase a Pixel 7 device on sale priced lower than the $525 trade-in value (i.e. the Pixel 7 128GB model for $499), the trade-in process cannot be conducted online and must be carried out in-store. You will be issued the remaining amount that is left over from your trade-in credit (if any, after your device cost + tax is deducted from the $525 trade-in credit) in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card.
To see the current value, please select the 'Check your trade-in value' tab and apply the Apple iPhone 11 Smartphone. Offer valid on other trade-in eligible devices (trade-in values may vary; see complete list here).

Available options:
  • Google Pixel 7 (Unlocked)
    • 128GB (various colors) $499 - $525 iPhone 11 trade-in value = Free + receive Best Buy Gift Card w/ remaining trade-in value amount (if any, after device cost + tax)
    • 256GB (various colors) $599 - $525 iPhone 11 trade-in value = $74
  • Google Pixel 7 Pro (Unlocked)
    • 128GB (various colors) $749 - $525 iPhone 11 trade-in value = $225
    • 256GB (various colors) $849 - $525 iPhone 11 trade-in value = $324
    • 512GB (various colors) $949 - $525 iPhone 11 trade-in value = $424

Editor's Notes

Written by RevOne | Staff
  • This deal will require you to trade in an eligible Apple iPhone 11 Smartphone device.
  • Trade-in device must be in good condition (signs of normal use, light wear and tear) and not have any damage, cracks or LCD bruising to receive full trade in amount/value
  • You may drop off your trade-in device when your product is ready for pickup at your local store. Condition of product will be evaluated at that time.
  • Offer valid while promotional price/trade-in value last.
Additional Notes
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details/trade-in offers.

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That's why OP mentioned doing it at the store since they can process the trade in and give the left over as GC.
Straight talk is a verizon prepaid and the phones are the Verizon model. I used that without issue.
I can't believe how smoothly this deal went. I drove 18 minutes to a Walmart in my city, bought the straight talk iphone 11 for $220 post-tax, drove another 10 mins to best buy, and they handed me a pixel 7 and a gift card.

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Quote from BenedictDonald :
Best Buy has these Google Pixel 7 phones open box starting at $398, that's how bad these new Pixels are.

Resale on a Pixel 7 is only $375 at the moment, and only going down.
For a fair condition open box, have you seen the fair condition items? They're all scratched up and gross. And they're only $600 new, yeesh, how much do you think they should sell for?
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Quote from WhyAlwaysMe_ :
Hi OP, how did you buy the iphone 11 at walmart? Did you order online then pickup, or go to the store directly and ask someone to activate it for you? Is there a mobile counter at Walmart?
Go to the Walmart ask for a straight talk iPhone 11. Pay $199 walk out of the store. Open your iphone do not activate drive to Best Buy and exchange it. When you do the exchange they just want the phone to be factory reset. Out of the box it's the way they want it.

I tried to do an online pickup for the iPhone and the first store ran out before they pulled it. Also make sure Best Buy has the phone in stock. These deals have been popular and the stock level at my local stores have dwindled a bit.
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Quote from actorps1 :
You would be better off getting the 256gb version or doing Google's trade in if you are going to just short yourself like that.
True, but you are spending $100 more (for something you may not need) to save an additional $44. To each their own, but changing from Good to Fair condition let's you bypass the trade in issue on a 128GB model.
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Quote from ashmizen :
iPhone 11 to pixel 7 is a side grade or downgrade in cpu speed, which will effect everything from gaming to apps to web browsing. Android also has terrible memory management that will cause problems once too many apps are open, and battery life will slowly drain. Sure the camera may be an upgrade, but everything else would be a downgrade.

Source - I just did data collection on performance data for my company's app and website on iPhone vs android and the iPhone XR performs as well as the most expensive and newest androids, and iphones newer than that runs circles around android. It's not even close. The 3rd gen iPhone SE at $400 is the best phone for performance, bar none; iPhone 11 users should upgrade into that, or not upgrade at all.
I can't comment on the memory management aspect as I'm not a professional but I will say I was using a TW iphone XR unexpectedly (my Pixel 4a broke) for the last 6-7 months and it was pretty enjoyable. Traded it for a Pixel 7 and while there are some obvious upgrades (screen is better, higher refresh rate, camera) the actual UX is more or less a like-for-like switch to me. The battery life is surprisingly similar too, probably a bit better with the XR.

I'm also not an apple person at all and am not in the ecosystem. Anyway, I can vouch for the XR, probably the best $100-150 phone out there if the battery isn't bad. But in reality the Pixel 7 is only like $250 after widely available trade-ins so I don't know, I'd probably still take the Pixel 7 in a vacuum unless you really want to get into the apple ecosystem.
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If best buy do not have stock can they still trade in iPhone 11 and place an order to ship the phone?
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Quote from WhyAlwaysMe_ :
Hi OP, how did you buy the iphone 11 at walmart? Did you order online then pickup, or go to the store directly and ask someone to activate it for you? Is there a mobile counter at Walmart?
I could have ordered online and select "store pickup", but it wasn't offering same day. Likely because not just any employee can sell the phone. In fact, my closest Walmart put some rule in place where those in black shirts are the only ones that could sell them and use a different register. Based on going to several stores, I don't think this is wide spread. I had no issues with stores in stock ringing one up using regular register where phones are kept. They have the Straight Talk sim attached, but didn't bother with it. Powered up the phone, went through all the prompts and only entered my home network password and nothing else personal. There might be an easier way, but I wanted to have the s/n, phone info screen ready to go. I got to BB 10 min before close because I had to go to a further store for stock. The advantage of doing it that way, you can see "activated" on the register screen. Any other way, there is that chance that they could mail or allow a pickup of a phone that wasn't activated. That would not work out well for you if that happens I am guessing because the BB system will not like the phone info.. i.e. stolen/not activated/whatever.
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Can I trade in an MDM bypassed device?
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Quote from downwithcville :
While the 7 has issues I think a bigger reason for returns is people moving from Apple to Android. Google has been pushing these hard and a lot of people can't pass up a good deal for what they consider a top of the line phone. But when it comes down to brass tacks Android is not as user friendly as iOS.
Maybe they got freaked out from being able to set the snooze on their alarm to something other than 9 minutes.
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Quote from sakislick :
If best buy do not have stock can they still trade in iPhone 11 and place an order to ship the phone?
Should be able.
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Quote from BenedictDonald :
Best Buy has these Google Pixel 7 phones open box starting at $398, that's how bad these new Pixels are.

Resale on a Pixel 7 is only $375 at the moment, and only going down.
Don't think these are bad phones at all. This is just Google's aggressive push vs iPhone. Shift in strategy. Pick up their recent management presentations from their IR site as well as research reports and you'll understand.

Resales are only down because of these deals. Once these deals end resale will creep back up. And by the way resale of new phone on Swappa is still 400+ besides all these deals.
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Quote from reddyme :
Since trade in value is 525, do they adjust the tax amount in pixel 7 and make it free? Or give a $25 gift card.
If done correctly, you are taxed on a value lower than the full price of the phone due to the trade, SO you actually shouldn't have to pay anything and you get BB GC with the overage. If they do it another way, you might have to pay and then it gets refunded to you quickly. I base that later info on what users have said in another thread. I didn't have to give BB anything but a phone number for BB account and my driver's license (fraud prevention).

I could have done more such as get a discounted Walmart GC and bought with that or if I had started the process a couple of days ago, could have done something maybe with CB, but I just kind of wanted the simple route after failing to get them from the Metro PCS deal. They wouldn't sell them for $50+plan costs because I was trying Google Voice numbers as my transfer numbers. Didn't really want to go that way or even enter their store, but it is a pretty large savings for those that get lucky on stock/number porting/activation waved/etc.
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If I open the box, will Walmart refund me incase if there is no stock and not able to trade in google pixels 7?
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The Google direct route being $16 might be better if you care about warranty. In the past, problem with a phone bought from best buy I learned google support considers direct from Google and anywhere else to be different in terms of support options.

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Great post OP! I guess I'm returning the 6a I just got from the Google store. Any idea when this deal ends?

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