Current the s23+ is listed at $750 on the Samsung Shop mobile app. Various trade ins are listed at $200, but if applied yield a total of $600 for the phone… the way they justify this is that because the phone is originally $1000, and it’s being discounted by 25%, they take $200 off of the original price of the phone before applying the discount. I.e. ($1000-$200)*0.75=$600. So your trade in is really only valued at $150 by Samsung.
In my opinion it’s shady to advertise the $750 price (after the discount) but NOT advertise the trade in value after the discount.
Yep! I called them to discuss the false advertising and walked them through the math step by step. She put me on hold and said she talked to the manager in the promo dept. Said she agrees with me completely but that there is nothing she or her manager could do. I said this is the definition of false advertising and in the world we live in, don’t be surprised if there is a class action lawsuit. Shady ass shit!!
These tactics have been going on since the launch of the S23.