It states: " How do I get my trade-in payment?
After your device is processed, you'll receive a credit for the assessed value. If you've paid for your new device in full, the trade-in credit will be refunded to your credit card within two billing cycles. Otherwise, a monthly credit will be applied to your Device Payment Plan in equal parts over the duration of the plan, starting within two billing cycles.
Additional details will be provided in your trade-in email from Assurant."
If your device is paid in full it is supposed to go back to your credit card. I have done 4 of these and on all 4 they credited my Spectrum account, however each time a very short phone call with CS resulted in the credit going to my CC.
If you need a $40 trade-in phone for this deal:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Straig...243529
If above phone not available, here is a $50 phone for trade-in deal:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Tracfo.../456429801
WARNING
Make sure to turn it on and see if your phone can activate. Walmart is not properly scanning these phones and trade ins are getting denied because of anti-theft. Buy these phones in store if you can! try to activate online and if error take the whole phone box package to store and have them rescan and reissue back to you or get replacement. check to make sure IMEI of "new" device can be activated online before you leave store
if above can't fix your problem then do the following:
1. Reach out to straight talk CS and ask them to escalate with issuing ticket
2. They will tell you to do the following: Email [email protected] with name, contact number, ticket number (this is created by chat agent) and attach receipt proof and picture of IMEI (I took a picture of the card that has the IMEI and sim card number on it).
3. You should get email about 24-48 hours later that it can now be activated
4. If they ask you to activate with phone plan then buy this $15 plan and give them the PIN and other relevant information they ask for
https://www.target.com/p/tracfone...A-87908383
Takes roughly 15 minutes to come in after purchase to hit email.
5. If they didn't ask to activate on tracfone then visit https://www.straighttal
6. Insert sim if not already in, turn off phone and turn back on. Make a test call. If call won't go through wait 5 minutes. You'll probably get some texts from Tracfone and calling should work. They suggest to turn off and on again if not, but I didn't need to.
$25 at Amazon: (slow shipping)
https://www.amazon.com/TracFone-M...B0C7LNLS9P
Store trade-in is YMMV
- Most stores will uphold the promotion - if not, go to a different store
- Device usually needs to be in stock - some stores will ship if not in stock
- Stock is usually low and sells out fast - may need to try more than once
- Higher storage options are usually not available in stores - only online
- Tax is dependent on state - some charge MSRP, some charge discounted price
- Doing too many trade in in short amount of time might get your account flagged - only online is available then
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Samsung, on their website, is offering credits up to $1K for trading-in ($750 credit for Galaxy S23 Ultra 5G or Galaxy Z Fold5 or iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max) AND getting a data plan with either T-mobile or Verizon or AT&T or USCellular.
Amazon is taking unlocked S24 pre-orders with promos gift cards for $200, $150 or $50.
S24 Ultra $1300 - $200 gift card (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMDWC436)
S24+ $1000 - $150 gift card (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMDX1134)
S24 $800 - $50 gift card (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMDKX76Q)
1) you will pay full price listed in check out on credit card
2) trade in will take up to 2-4 weeks to be completed, they are slow af
3) you will get the credit on your account normally by next billing cycle. Just call and ask them to credit your credit card back since you have a positive balance
To date i have done probably 10+ trades since last year. Once you do multiple trade ins you likely will get flagged and they wont let you do trade ins at store like me... lol.. can only do them all online going forward...
Some notables I saw which will likely do:
* Note 20 Ultra ($820 trade in) -> S24 (799.99 buy) will get you +$20 back on almost a 4 year old phone
* S23 ($927) -> S24 (799.99) will get you ~+127.01
* S23plus ($994) -> S24+(999.99) will cost only ~$5
some things to also consider after getting a s24 base model, last year they took a s23 trade in for s23+ for a gain of 0.01, which was nuts... so we will see if that appears after release date
1) you will pay full price listed in check out on credit card
2) trade in will take up to 2-4 weeks to be completed, they are slow af
3) you will get the credit on your account normally by next billing cycle. Just call and ask them to credit your credit card back since you have a positive balance
To date i have done probably 10+ trades since last year. Once you do multiple trade ins you likely will get flagged and they wont let you do trade ins at store like me... lol.. can only do them all online going forward...
Some notables I saw which will likely do:
* Note 20 Ultra ($820 trade in) -> S24 (799.99 buy) will get you +$20 back on almost a 4 year old phone
* S23 ($927) -> S24 (799.99) will get you ~+127.01
* S23plus ($994) -> S24+(999.99) will cost only ~$5
some things to also consider after getting a s24 base model, last year they took a s23 trade in for s23+ for a gain of 0.01, which was nuts... so we will see if that appears after release date
$20 spectrum mobile activation fee
$56.00 tax for s24, $70 tax for s24+, $91 tax for s24u
-$723 trade in s9+ and receive trade in value in credit, call spectrum to refund credit
$20 by the gig plan month 2
$20 by the gig plan month 3 (during this month I unlock the phone and cancel the plan)
$35 port number back into previous family t-mobile plan activation fee
$241.99 after tax for s24 256gb. $455.99 after tax for s24+ 512gb. $776.99 after tax for s24u 512GB. Some people are saying they will refund the tax along with the credit, others are saying they don't. Has anyone successfully received the tax back along with the credit in past spectrum deals?
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Is it confirm that you can do trade-in in the store and get the trade-in value + promo right at that very moment? and just pay the price difference of the new phone.
assuming the new phone is available.
Thanks for sharing the info/tip!
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