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iPhone 16 Pro Max Best Buy iPhone Preorder Thread

gower2352

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Doesn’t look like they’ve announced any special offers yet. Also no information yet on trade ins - in fact on their trade in calculator the iPhone 15 isn’t even listed. Just the pre-order details for now.

Have always ordered through them because they make it pretty easy and usually have a deal where you get like an extra $100 on trade in but so far no announcements.
 
So this will be my first time ordering through them because I happen to have Totaltech right now, is it simple if I want to keep my old verizon plan? What is the process like?
 
clutchm3 said:
So this will be my first time ordering through them because I happen to have Totaltech right now, is it simple if I want to keep my old verizon plan? What is the process like?
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Yeah it’s pretty simple. Preorder, select carrier and you should be good to go in picking it up in the store. You’ll do the switchover in the store.

Good also for people who pay in full for their phones as BestBuy doesn’t require the full payment at preorder until you come in to pickup the new iPhone and you’ll just pay the difference between the trade in value of your current iPhone and remainder balance owed on the new iPhone.

Just hoping they offer the extra $100 for trade in value this year. That would bring it to $850 for my iPhone 15 Pro Max 256gb.
 
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gower2352 said:
Yeah it’s pretty simple. Preorder, select carrier and you should be good to go in picking it up in the store. You’ll do the switchover in the store.

Good also for people who pay in full for their phones as BestBuy doesn’t require the full payment at preorder until you come in to pickup the new iPhone and you’ll just pay the difference between the trade in value of your current iPhone and remainder balance owed on the new iPhone.

Just hoping they offer the extra $100 for trade in value this year. That would bring it to $850 for my iPhone 15 Pro Max 256gb.
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Are you Verizon? Looking to upgrade more than pay in full.
 
gower2352 said:
I’m on Visible which is owned by Verizon. They only offer phone financing through Affirm.
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Visible is offering a special conversion aimed at T Mobile customers.

$15/month unlimited for 5 years!

As soon as I get the 16 Pro activated on TMO, I am switching over from TMO to Visible (VZW) for better signal quality where I live.

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4sallypat said:
Visible is offering a special conversion aimed at T Mobile customers.

$15/month unlimited for 5 years!

As soon as I get the 16 Pro activated on TMO, I am switching over from TMO to Visible (VZW) for better signal quality where I live.

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Visible is great but this is for their base $25 plan which doesn’t include Ultra Wideband (among other things). You can still get $10 off the premium plan so it would be $35 a month. I paid $395 for the year for the premium plan which comes out to $33 per month.

You would be “locked” in with a $10 monthly discount though.
 
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Visible is great but this is for their base $25 plan which doesn’t include Ultra Wideband (among other things). You can still get $10 off the premium plan so it would be $35 a month. I paid $395 for the year for the premium plan which comes out to $33 per month.

You would be “locked” in with a $10 monthly discount though.
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Yes, I saw the 2 plans.

Since I don't live/work near any UW VZW towers, my VZW towers are all mid band (6GHz) so I only get 5G and 4G LTE.
 
kupkakez said:
Visible is great but this is for their base $25 plan which doesn’t include Ultra Wideband (among other things). You can still get $10 off the premium plan so it would be $35 a month. I paid $395 for the year for the premium plan which comes out to $33 per month.

You would be “locked” in with a $10 monthly discount though.
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How is Visible? Same as Verizon? Like on their premium plan that they include AW cell activation too. Also - a really good plan if you travel to Canada and Mexico a lot, since you get 2gb of data a day.

Only drawback for us is that we have two family members on T-Mobile home broadband, which have speeds much higher than Verizon offers and also only costs $25 a month. If not for that Visible would be an easy switch.

Wonder if that code for T-Mobile customers works on the annual plan too?
 
GDF said:
How is Visible? Same as Verizon? Like on their premium plan that they include AW cell activation too. Also - a really good plan if you travel to Canada and Mexico a lot, since you get 2gb of data a day.

Only drawback for us is that we have two family members on T-Mobile home broadband, which have speeds much higher than Verizon offers and also only costs $25 a month. If not for that Visible would be an easy switch.

Wonder if that code for T-Mobile customers works on the annual plan too?
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I’m in Austin, TX and it’s comparable. I’ve also travelled coast to coast with it and it’s been more than fine!
 
gower2352 said:

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www.bestbuy.com

Doesn’t look like they’ve announced any special offers yet. Also no information yet on trade ins - in fact on their trade in calculator the iPhone 15 isn’t even listed. Just the pre-order details for now.

Have always ordered through them because they make it pretty easy and usually have a deal where you get like an extra $100 on trade in but so far no announcements.
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You have to manually type it in. $625 for my Iphone 15 pro 256 gb.
 
Anyone else pre ordering on Best Buy tomorrow? Going for verizon, hoping it is a smooth process.
 
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