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Best Buy Trade In vs Apple
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Were you talking about the Ultra 2? I was talking about the regular new titanium but I just re looked and they are now showing in various limited combinations color and band and no store pickup and no date available for delivery just states shortly after release date. Or with the ML but delivery after September 24th. I played with it and found that with trade of my stainless steel they were only giving $75, definitely doing better with the $105 from Apple.
I did a looooooong chat with a Best Buy employee on Sunday. They said the promo was still valid (though it took me asking like 50 times). It seemed like they were trying really hard not to say it was ongoing. They suggested going to the store and at the end of the convo they said the promo was still active (as of yesterday). But checking again on the Best Buy site, it's still $200. I just went ahead and listed mine on Swappa. $200 is too low.
Looks like they require the band to be included though? They are offering $325 for my Ultra but seems I have to include my band
Seriously? I got offered a lot more than that for my SS S8. I mean not enough IMO, but I can’t believe an Ultra 2 would be $50. That’s absurd.
They quoted me 165 for my 45mm series 8 gps. Have my s10 for in store pickup Friday and it said to bring my old watch in. Charged me full price but claims they’ll refund the original payment method when they get the trade in device a la Apple when buying it outright.
For a few days, BB did offer $300 trade-in for an S9 GPS. A few of us here did go into the store get the $300 trade-in applied to a Gift Card. A couple days later the Trade-in offer was reduced to $200. I think this is still what they offering.
Are you asking if anyone has gotten $300 trade-in AFTER BB reduced their trade-in offer to $200?
Only speaking for me, yes, this is what I was wondering. I have a chat transcript from Best Buy where they kinda/sorta indicate that maybe/possibly I could get the $300 offer.
Cool... Did they kinda/sorta tell you how to proceed to get the $300? If so, I would do it ASAP before the $300 trade-in is just a memory. 👍🏼
Yes - and while they were giving $300 for the midnight wifi aluminum model, BB's main page claimed up to $200 for S9 watches. I'd guess they've fixed that since then.
My post from last week:
i have a series 9 45mm, NR993LL/A, without the blood oxygen sensor and i dont even see it as an option on bestbuys trade in list, anyone else?
Dang, I was gonna take advantage of the $300 trade-in value.... but it's not gonna be worth it at $200. Knew it wouldn't last long. Oh well.
Don’t worry about the model. Mine didn’t match either but I was able to get $300 for it. As long as it’s the Midnight 45mm GPS you should be good.
It can't hurt to take the band with you - when I traded my S8 for a S9 last year, they wanted the band that came with the watch, which was not the band I was wearing at the time. This wasn't my local Best Buy (which has since closed), so it was a headache. I had scratched my S8 (not terribly, but it bugged me), and I wanted the couple extra features on the S9. Of course, I have since scratched the S9 about as bad as I scratched the S8. It's a good thing I didn't see that $300 deal - it was down to $200 the first time I checked - or I might have upgraded again.
I traded mine in in-store yesterday before my $150 quote expired. They asked for the band, thankfully I had it with me. I’m pretty sure the site also mentions the charger, but they didn’t ask for that.
It's odd how the different stores do things. When I traded mine in last week at the $300, I brought in the watch, band, box, and charge cable. All they wanted was the watch.
They put the watch in a small baggie, and they didn't even use the original little apple cover that I had. They told me I could keep everything but the watch itself.