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Here is detailed steps for 2 phone at promo trade- Its Possible as provided by BB employee. Thanks to him for sharing entire process step by step.
1. Get 2 phone for trade in ( has to be different - i.e one iPhone and other Android) reason being both trade in generates different sku based on different phone and that is key. If u trade same platform phone twice sku are same and it will not work as only one coupon of same sku works.
2. First get both trade ins done ( 2 times you need to sign) make sure each trade in gives you bb gift card and single use coupon -total of coupon and gift card should ne equal to trade in value u see online.
3. When entering tradein if they say u will get just 200 or 300 ask them to apply promo code google that's the trick
4. Only select unlocked phone colour black ( e.g for blue their is restriction that u need verizon and if u take verizon thank watch promo not apply)
5. Make sure to get watch added in same order ( as unlike online watch doesn't get added automatically?- dont be fooled by bb employee tell
specifically to add watch)
6. Watch color only black make sure also its wifi else it will mess up entire order.
7. After seeing all good then only pay for remaining.
8. Coupon values - of both phones reduces price before tax so effectively u pay tax on net amount apart from gift cards.
In my example I traded p7 and ip11 and got 200 × 2 gift cards and 250 coupon for p7 and 300 coupons for ip11..so net transaction 999- 250-300 = 449+ tax on 449 is net amount - 200-200 gift card = so 49+tax on 449 is the payment amount.
Watch should show 349- 349 = 0.
Attached are snips of receipts which are important to check
https://imgur.com/a/yNxkSGB
FYI - BBs have already received all stock items in store but they will only sell and provide pickup after 12.
Please try tomorrow and day after as it will be last days of preorder.
Make most of deal - any questions welcome...
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But that doesn't mean the phone isn't compatible with T-Mobile, it probably means they don't stock T-Mobile SIMs and service. Do you have a source that says this unlocked phone from Best Buy will not take a T-Mobile SIM?
Also, trade-in note at checkout if you're selecting store pickup is "Bring your trade-in device to the store when you pick up your new item."
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It took 3 trips to the store, over 3 days, the first two times rejected, once being told that the bonus was only for Pixels traded for Pixels. Spent more than an hour on those two trips between waiting and debating with them. One called a "supervisor" on the mic to verify the rejection.
Today I went in with more info and screen images of the Best Buy website Pixel 8 online transaction, with a SE3 trade-in. After arriving at the cell phone sales desk, an employee apologized (it was about 11:15am) saying they were short staff today, and it would be a while until anyone could help me. 10 minutes later, she saw I was still waiting and called again for someone to help me.
I showed the rep the screen images to prove to them that this deal was real, and said that I wanted to do this in store so I could pick it up in person. (The real reason was my concern that the Straight Talk carrier locked phone would be rejected after mailing it in from an online purchase, as Straight Talk is not listed on the website cell provider pull down for the SE3, unlike other phones in the list).
First guy today assumed, without telling me, that I was just selling them my SE3 and then wanted to apply that to a phone purchase with activation, which would give me $160 for. That wasted 20 minutes. I explained that there was a $300 bonus added to that and several people had done it in store and gotten the same deal as on the website. I was then told by a 3rd employee that these kind of deals many times are website only. I repeated that others had done it in store and that wasn't true here. (Can you sense the frustration so far?).
The 2nd rep said "maybe that bonus only comes up when processing the purchase of the Pixel 8 and doing a trade-in! Yes, I told him, that's exactly it. Then they all disappeared for 10 minutes. Two returned and started the transaction. I told them "Verizon" was the carrier, not mentioning Straight Talk. They took the phone, reset things (I had no data on it of course, but had done the setup without ever putting in the SIM, so that they could verify things on the phone). That took another 15 minutes.
I encouraged them to look for a code like Pixel, or Google, which I read was the code the brought up the promo. Doing that finally resulted in them seeing how this works. A $160 gift card, followed by a $300 coupon code. Finally, and now it was about an hour after this started, I was making progress. Their printers were down of course, so they had to print the coupon in a back office and return with it.
I was shocked when they brought me the Pixel Pro Buds, without me asking, and started to give me the choice in colors. I told them I'd take the off-white unless the charcoal was the only color that was part of this promo. They tried the off-white but it did not ring up as free! So they cancelled that and scanned the charcoal ones.
Then time to scan in the gift card as part of the payment. Then a more typing, then scanning the $300 coupon. Then about 2-3 signatures and agreements that I'd pay $45 for an open box return, etc, declining insurance, etc.
Finally, again, minutes later, they took the SE3, wrapped it up, handed me the ear buds and receipt, and this marathon was finally over! Like I said, not sure it was worth all this frustration, and the idea that unless I found a rep that was willing to work at this and try, this would have never gotten done! But, I didn't want to face another fiasco trying to return the opened, now "used", SE3 to Walmart, even though I know their policy is that they should accept this return.
That's all!
It took 3 trips to the store, over 3 days, the first two times rejected, once being told that the bonus was only for Pixels traded for Pixels. Spent more than an hour on those two trips between waiting and debating with them. One called a "supervisor" on the mic to verify the rejection.
Today I went in with more info and screen images of the Best Buy website Pixel 8 online transaction, with a SE3 trade-in. After arriving at the cell phone sales desk, an employee apologized (it was about 11:15am) saying they were short staff today, and it would be a while until anyone could help me. 10 minutes later, she saw I was still waiting and called again for someone to help me.
I showed the rep the screen images to prove to them that this deal was real, and said that I wanted to do this in store so I could pick it up in person. (The real reason was my concern that the Straight Talk carrier locked phone would be rejected after mailing it in from an online purchase, as Straight Talk is not listed on the website cell provider pull down for the SE3, unlike other phones in the list).
First guy today assumed, without telling me, that I was just selling them my SE3 and then wanted to apply that to a phone purchase with activation, which would give me $160 for. That waisted 20 minutes. I explained that there was a $300 bonus added to that and several people had done it in store and gotten the same deal as on the website. I was then told by a 3rd employee that these kind of deals many times are website only. I repeated that others had done it in store and that wasn't true here. (Can you sense the frustration so far?).
The 2nd rep said "maybe that bonus only comes up when processing the purchase of the Pixel 8 and doing a trade-in! Yes, I told him, that's exactly it. Then they all disappeared for 10 minutes. Two returned and started the transaction. I told them "Verizon" was the carrier, not mentioning Straight Talk. They took the phone, reset things (I had no data on it of course, but had done the setup without ever putting in the SIM, so that they could verify things on the phone). That took another 15 minutes.
I encouraged them to look for a code like Pixel, or Google, which I read was the code the brought up the promo. Doing that finally resulted in them seeing how this works. A $160 gift card, followed by a $300 coupon code. Finally, and now it was about an hour after this started, I was making progress. Their printers were down of course, so they had to print the coupon in a back office and return with it.
I was shocked when they brought me the Pixel Pro Buds, without me asking, and started to give me the choice in colors. I told them I'd take the off-white unless the charcoal was the only color that was part of this promo. They tried the off-white but it did not ring up as free! So they cancelled that and scanned the charcoal ones.
Then time to scan in the gift card as part of the payment. Then a more typing, then scanning the $300 coupon. Then about 2-3 signatures and agreements that I'd pay $45 for an open box return, etc, declining insurance, etc.
Finally, again, minutes later, they took the SE3, wrapped it up, handed me the ear buds and receipt, and this marathon was finally over! Like I said, not sure it was worth all this frustration, and the idea that unless I found a rep that was willing to work at this and try, this would have never gotten done! But, I didn't want to face another fiasco trying to return the opened, now "used", SE3 to Walmart, even though I know their policy is that they should accept this return.
That's all!
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It took 3 trips to the store, over 3 days
Should have just order that shit online for pickup on the 12th it would have all been in the system
Scan your finger for what?
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