I think you have to be running the phone on a Tmo plan for 60 days before you can unlock it.
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iPhone 13 Pro Max Crazy Best Buy iPhone Deal ($975 off up front)
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so wait, you only paid $147, which includes the trade in of your 12 Pro Max. are you bound by a contract?
If that's the only downside then this is a no brainer. As I understand it, once unlocked, it's the exact same phone as one you'd buy unlocked from Apple.
My iPhone 12 PM 128GB was paid off, Verizon unlocked but switched to T-Mobile few months after I bought it at Verizon. No contract here. No bill credits to deal with. It’ll be fully paid off. That’s what makes this BestBuy deal awesome. If your phone isn’t paid off/locked it may not work out too great.
I have my 128gb Pro max arriving friday from apple but ill be returning it to do this deal instead. It will be somewhat sad to not have my phone on launch (don't want to open it since I'll be returning it). I've ordered the 256gb Pro Max from best buy.
So with Best Buy I'll be getting a 256gb for $170 cheaper than the 128gb from Apple! Excellent deal.
So with Best Buy I'll be getting a 256gb for $170 cheaper than the 128gb from Apple! Excellent deal.
mines paid off, but i always thought best buy only did deals locked, where you have to committ to phone carrier??
Thanks OP, I used this method to purchase a 13PM 256 in blue for the Mrs. Total was around $224 plus taxes. She doesn't care that it's locked to TMobile. Apparently it'll be ready on the 28th Sept lol.
She can request it be unlocked after 40 days of use on the T-Mobile network, making it the exact same phone as an unlocked model you'd buy from Apple.
On paper perhaps We'll see if I have the stomach to go through this for educational purposes, Apple retail flex locked iPhones can be a biatch to unlock from TMobile even after 4o days.
Thanks to this thread, I got $560 for going with Best Buy and trading in my 2-year old, no frills, base-model, Plain Jane, boring black iPhone 11 64GB. That is insane! $460 trade-in, plus $100 Best Buy instant discount.
A deal so good it not only convinced me to upgrade, but to splurge on the 13 Pro. That‘s how they getcha!
A deal so good it not only convinced me to upgrade, but to splurge on the 13 Pro. That‘s how they getcha!
Thank you OP and everyone else! Just put my order in at my local store. 128gb 12P trading to 128gb 13P for $99. Much better than the 36 months of credits from ATT
In the terms and conditions it says "unactivated unlocked phones will receive value in the form of a Best Buy gift card". What do they mean by unactivated? I purchased my phone unlocked from Apple, but have been using it with TMobile. So would I get the gift card, or the monies applied to a new phone?
I think as long as you currently have a provider/service on the current phone it should be applied directly to the purchase. When you go to the trade-in screen there are only options for the 4 providers, not an unlocked phone. I'm guessing this was something that was implemented to avoid people buying phones for cheaper than the trade-in value, not activating them and "profiting" the difference or as a protection from accepting blacklisted phones that were stolen
I just did this deal. Traded in my iphone 11 pro max 256gb green. I got $615 for it. Went for a 13 pro max 128gb.
AFter tax and fees, came out to be around $445. Not bad for the latest top of the line iphone model.
I thought about going iphone 13 but I no longer upgrade yearly. I think I'll keep the 13 pro max and upgrade at 15.
It seems like the 'S' iphones (since some consider the 13 just the 12s line) to be minor but a solid improvement to new features.
AFter tax and fees, came out to be around $445. Not bad for the latest top of the line iphone model.
I thought about going iphone 13 but I no longer upgrade yearly. I think I'll keep the 13 pro max and upgrade at 15.
It seems like the 'S' iphones (since some consider the 13 just the 12s line) to be minor but a solid improvement to new features.
How much did you sell your phone for if you don’t mine me asking. I have a 12 pro max 128
So this flex policy thing, does this mean there’s a chance it will be permanently locked to T-Mobile with no chance of unlocking through T-Mobile?
So, I was not planning on buying the iPhone 13 pro Max, but this post convinced me 😂. I sell my phone every year for about $800 and then use the funds to upgrade and pay in full. This year I didn’t feel like going through the hassle to sell my phone for a minor upgrade (IMO), but Best Buy offering $775 for my phone is a pretty good deal. So preorder has been submitted. I’ll probably get my phone in November, but oh well 😂
With Verizon you only have to keep the line, not the phone. So you can buy the iPhone 14 next year and just swap out the SIM card. At least that’s what I’ve done in the past.
Does anyone know when the promotion ends? In the fine print it says 9/17-9/23 but that’s before the phones are even released so it seems kind of odd. I wanted to grab a 128g silver pro max which they currently don’t have either. So not sure what my options are at this point. I wasn’t originally going to upgrade which is why I’m late to the game.