Carrier Anyone trade their phone into Verizon

[ohsnaphappy]

Sold my 6+ Gold 16Gb on Amazon for $495 in like one hour. I net $460 or something like that, after fees.

 

[Antr7]

Just went to another Verizon store and they gave me credit for both phones that I can use to pay my bill without having to mail them in

 

[gavroche]

Probably a debit card that you can use towards purchases or towards your bill. Start up a char with an online rep; they're less pushy and more knowledgeable in my experience than in-store reps.

I chatted with one of the reps online several days ago. It was quite a frustrating conversation. The replies were very slow, and never clearly answered my questions. I got the distinct impression that the person with whom i was chatting did not have the ability to actually type the answers his/her self, but was selecting from a list of generic replies to copy paste into the box. And while i was typing a follow up question, the person quickly said to have an nice day and left the conversation. Was not helpful at all. And as an aside, i had went to online chat in response to an article i saw saying there was a $400 credit. Now i only see $300 promotion... so not sure if the original article was an error. But i did mention $400 in my chat conversation and the person never corrected me.

 

[willmtaylor]

I chatted with one of the reps online several days ago. It was quite a frustrating conversation. The replies were very slow, and never clearly answered my questions. I got the distinct impression that the person with whom i was chatting did not have the ability to actually type the answers his/her self, but was selecting from a list of generic replies to copy paste into the box. And while i was typing a follow up question, the person quickly said to have an nice day and left the conversation. Was not helpful at all. And as an aside, i had went to online chat in response to an article i saw saying there was a $400 credit. Now i only see $300 promotion... so not sure if the original article was an error. But i did mention $400 in my chat conversation and the person never corrected me.

That's odd. I'd put money down that if you chatted with a rep again that you WOULDN'T have that experience. I know everyone can have different experiences, but I've had nothing but positive ones with Chat CSR's (now in-store CSR's are another story ENTIRELY).

 

[gavroche]

Yea, you are probably right. I'll probably pop back on and give it another go some time soon. I don't feel a big rush, since they don't have any stock of the phone i want right now anyhow...

 

[ekinnyc]

Yes, it can be used toward purchase. But I'm not sure how that would work with installments.

went to a vz store and asked, then actually swapped it for a 6S.

basically you can either apply it towards the "financed" amount, so your monthly drops by $12.50 (300/24), or use it towards the monthly payments, or another purchase. i actually wound up taking advantage of the $300 off any iPad offer, so wound up getting a 64GB iPad air 2 for $130 + tax ($730-300 for promo - 300 for phone exchange)

 

[iBighouse]

went to a vz store and asked, then actually swapped it for a 6S.

basically you can either apply it towards the "financed" amount, so your monthly drops by $12.50 (300/24), or use it towards the monthly payments, or another purchase. i actually wound up taking advantage of the $300 off any iPad offer, so wound up getting a 64GB iPad air 2 for $130 + tax ($730-300 for promo - 300 for phone exchange)

I was going to do that until I realized that you had to buy a monthly plan to get that discount on the iPad. I was instead looking forward to finally being able to use my iPhone as a personal hotspot on the few occasions when I can't connect to a trusted wifi hotspot.
I instead got the $300/5S trade in (2 of them) and $100 for each line that I ported over to Verizon.
I'm waiting for the full credits to appear on my account. They gave me a receipt at the store for about $370 and said the rest would appear on my account with a couple of weeks. they sure better be right or I'll be complaining loudly to my sales rep.