Sales Tax:
For some states, Samsung will charge sales tax on the amount before taking $300 off.
California state is one of those. Pay tax on the list price.
Return Window for the Trade-in:
"Please note that you have 15 days from the date you receive your new device to ship your old device to Samsung or your original payment method will be charged for the trade-in credit amount."
https://www.samsung.com/us/trade-...questions/
Packing Instructions:: Courtesy @_A2:
Ins to document and ship the trade-in:
1. Go to a USPS location with an automated kiosk
2. Place phone on top of kiosk, with scale in view
3. Start recording
4. Turn phone on, show serial #, do whatever you want in order to show that it's working
5. Turn it OFF. Place in box. Seal it up.
6. Affix postage. NOW... while keeping the box in view of the phone camera --> take it over and drop it in the package/parcel drum.
Note: Samsung will provide shipping label
7. Pull the handle to send the package inside --> make sure to continue recording while you RE-OPEN the drum and show it empty.
At this point, the package is literally out of your hands. You can't get it back. If anyone (buyer, Samsung, 3rd party trade-in clowns) tries to claim that your device wasn't in the condition you stated: send them a link to your video so that they can kindly go f*ck themselves.
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it's a paperweight in my nightstand.
it won't open and that damaged the screen and so it powers up but screen is broke and still stuck halfway shut.
was hoping to be able to trade it in one day. but haven't seen anywhere like this where i could with a damaged one.
Am I better off going for a "free" phone from T mobile (which would probably be S24 or even S25, but not free after the bill credits), or maybe even a mint condition phone from swappa?
Not saying it's guaranteed, but I'm glad I took others' advice of producing photo/video evidence of the IMEI, model number, factory reset, boxing up, etc.
I had to engage their customer support and correct them on the model name of the device I had sent, after they incorrectly identified it as a noneligible model. They were about to charge me the full $300 credit for someone's incompetence.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2RWKLYV
I ordered another one from Amazon from a different vendor. I bought one listed as the T-mobile version as I figured at least we'd know right away if it was also locked. What showed up was not the T-mobile version as far as I can tell (no T-mob splash screen on start-up), but it was in better condition than the first phone and was actually the 1 Tb (!) version. Perhaps they didn't have the one I ordered so they sent a slightly different 1 Tb one instead figuring I'd be happy, which I am. So my Amazon Refurbished story has happy ending, but Amazon seems like a bit of a dice roll and crossed fingers approach when compared to Samsung, especially since Sammy's have a new battery.
Ebay you get whatever a seller thinks they can get away with selling you. I just had the pleasure of returning an "eBay Refurbished" Microsoft Surface tablet that was sold as "New-Open Box." When I ran Crystal Disk Mark, the SSD had SEVENTEEN THOUSAND HOURS of use on it and like 60 terabytes of writes. It was at 60% health. It was also kinda dirty, and had a gouge where some company's property label had been scraped off it. (Also, it was illegally shipped without a warning label for the lithium battery, but I digress.) When I contacted the seller requesting a refund, he tried to offer my a 7% discount to keep it. I declined and I did get my refund. Some of these eBay sellers are just hoping to find a buyer that isn't tech savvy enough to know what they bought.
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