So Samsung is “offering” Black Friday deals. Before you add a trade in the price is 1349 right? The website says 1349 before eligible trade in. Add a s23 ultra or z fold 4 and it brings it down to 599. They “value” those phones at 1000. How does 1349-1000= 599? The math ain’t mathing.
I don’t get it, in your pictures it doesn’t say that those phones are valued at $1000? It just states that the maximum trade in value they are offering is $1000 but never specifically mentioned the s23u or zfold 4.
Just checked. The app says has the price of the Fold 5 slashed to $1,349 as the pricing BEFORE trade in.
The drop-down for the trade in for a Fold 4 shows is $1k. Thens you select to trade it in for the $1k and the price of the phone only drops to $599.
Yeah that’s totally not correct. If that’s the case the price before trade in should show $1,599.
I don’t understand the confusion. 1349 is the promotional pricing before any trade-in. 1599 is the price with a trade-in.
With a trade-in, the promotional price ceases because it’s no longer “before any trade-in”. I’m sure it’s in the t&c somewhere. The phrasing “pricing before trade-in” makes me believe that the price would not be the same with a trade-in.
Is it potentially misleading? Yes.
Is it spelt out to you once you input the necessary information? Also yes.
It’s just another marketing thing.
The key word there is ✨up to✨ They keep playing games like this all the time garnishing $150 to $200 anyway from the overall discount. Whenever a company slaps the words up to, never trust the value after it unless you verify it yourself for the device you’re trading in.
If the 1349 was after discount, then Samsung is not calculating trade-in deduction from that price. They deduct trade-in from the MRP before discounts.
It’s straight up false click bait advertisement
No it really isn’t. Most people know how this works. Trade in value depends on the device you are trading in. It would be impossible to list every device and it’s trade in value in a succinct manner.
Out of interest how would you word it?
The phones are not valued at 1000, they are valued at up to 1000
Right but on the checkout cart, there’s an option where you can click and it shows the discounts being applied, it shows $1000 for trade in. On mine it showed $1000 trade in credit and the instant discount goes from $200 to $80.
It’s a 25% off discount from your total. Before you trade in — your paying full price. Thus 25% off as displayed. Full price minus trade then 25% off.
Samsung blocked my phone because it was from the gray market so I ordered a s23 plus a month ago and have not recieved anything. They want to block you if you don’t buy directly from them but they offer horrible service when you buy from them
I guess you have figured it out. I do hope you enjoy the black Friday deals. I will check if CryptMI as got any black Friday deals.
Samsung is offering a MINIMUM trade-in credit of $200, and a Maximum trade in credit of $1000. So they advertise the phones with that minimum $200 credit already applied. When you put in that you’re trading in a much more valuable phone, they replace the $200 credit with whatever credit you qualify for, in this case $1000. But you don’t get the minimum credit AND the maximum credit.