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Apple More Prominently Highlighting iPhone Trade-In Deals From Carriers

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Apple today introduced a new "iPhone Carrier Offers" website in the United States, with the site more prominently highlighting carrier deals offered by AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon.

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A banner on Apple's iPhone purchase pages also points out various carrier discounts that are available, with "Special Offers Available" wording also included when choosing a carrier during the purchase process.

Apple previously highlighted carrier deals on its Financing website, but the new page specific to carrier deals is more noticeable and the deals are more heavily advertised on the iPhone product pages.

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Carrier deals can be obtained when purchasing an iPhone from Apple, with the company highlighting up to $700 in savings from AT&T, up to $320 in savings from T-Mobile/Sprint, and up to $440 in savings from Verizon, with all of these deals related to trade-in bonuses.

Apple's carrier deal site breaks down the bonuses that are available from each carrier for each iPhone 12 model, and it provides links to the iPhone purchase pages and options to chat with an iPhone specialist for more info.

Apple relies on carrier deals and trade-in offers to make iPhone pricing more attractive for consumers, so it makes sense for the company to put more emphasis on the price drops that customers can get when using a carrier trade-in option. Apple also has its own trade-in deals that are available separately.

Tags: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon

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aesc80 Avatar
aesc80
71 months ago
Call me crazy - I hold on to my old devices, and always pay off the phones I purchase up front. Beats having to rely on cellphone providers and being handcuffed to them.
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
minik Avatar
minik
71 months ago
I rather keep my old phone than dealing with the trade-in partner.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
71 months ago
I would just pay it off and not deal with the refinancing... just my personal opinion.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
RedTheReader Avatar
RedTheReader
71 months ago
I don’t think the problem is that carrier deals aren’t prominent enough; I think the problem is that they’re plain awful. The savings you’d get from trading-in would be eaten up by needing to move to an unlimited plan.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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coachgq
71 months ago

I would just pay it off and not deal with the refinancing... just my personal opinion.
Refinancing? You mean free financing? They lend you money at 0%. If you don’t see the value in that, you’ve got a lot to learn.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
QCassidy352 Avatar
QCassidy352
71 months ago

Either way, you’re not getting rich on those 0% iPhone dollars and the habit is bad. People like to do finance 101 with this argument, but it generally doesn’t play out in reality.

The people chasing 0% on iPhones, TVs, and furnitures aren’t the rich people.

And most people underperform the market, so they certainly don’t know how to invest.
even rich people take advantage of favorable loans. It was widely reported a few years ago that mark zuckerberg, yes the mark zuckerberg with all the billions, had a mortgage.
https://themortgagereports.com/21788/why-mark-zuckerberg-has-a-mortgage

now, as you suggest, you have to do something with the money in the meantime for it to be worth anything, and too many people don‘t. But there’s nothing wrong with the *concept* of taking a favorable loan even when you could pay cash up front.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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