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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Source: I did this for 3 preorders, 2 of which have already been inspected & accepted.
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In this forum I read that phone needs to be factory reset. If factory reset is the requirement, getting the phone setup up to "Home screen" will it be an issue? Thanks.
Side note: I have seen that Straighttalk phone that I bought from Walmart has SIM card inserted within the device itself. Not sure if that's the reason for rejection. A thought to share.
On Thursday I went back and upgraded our 'home' phone (just a line a to keep the number we've had for 30+ years and give us an extra gig of shared date) from a Pixel 4a to an S24. I traded in my daughter's old S22 and it was an even swap.
My wife has an iPhone Mini she doesn't want to give up as she wants to stay Apple and wants a small phone. I have a Pixel 7 Pro that I still owe a balance on and plan to upgrade to the 9 Pro in the fall so I have no other lines to upgrade. I read somewhere in the thread that you could upgrade the same line multiple times. Is that correct? I was thinking I could trade in the Pixel 4a for another S24 by upgrading my home line again. I did go back to the store Friday and asked about that and they said I couldn't do that but they didn't actually try in the system and just seemed like they were making an assumption versus knowing if that was the actual case. Is this something I should be able to do?
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