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I ordered a Galaxy Note 3 last Tuesday and received it on Thursday. Saturday I saw an XDA post that said that a discount code Verizon30 was giving members 30% off their Note 3 purchase. Some even said that they called in after ordering to have a price reduction done and the rep mistakenly gave them a $250 credit and only charging them 30% of the price instead of taking 30% off the price. I called in simply to ask for the 30% discount but was instead credited $250 for my phone purchase without even asking. So my phone cost me $50. Since I just saved $250 I figured I planned on spending it anyway so why not get the Galaxy Gear watch to go with it. So I went to my local VZW store and picked one up. Today I was looking here in the Galaxy Gear forum and saw members talking about T-Mobile discounting the watch to the price of $209 online with a promo code. Not believing it I tried myself and the code worked. Not wanting to have to go through the process of returning mine to VZW and buying one from T-Mobile I called the VZW store I purchased the Gear from and emailed the screenshot of my cart on T-Mobile showing the watch at $209. The rep. Said she would credit the difference of $90 from my purchase. The point of my story is without the XDA members sharing their knowledge I would have paid $600 for the 2 items. Instead I paid approximately $250 instead with your help. So thank you! You made my week.
Well I've pre-ordered My Note 4 From Clove UK & Now Just gotta sit back & wait till 13th October - Ahh well.
Anyone else joined the waiting game?
Ta
This is the third time a buy a Note from Clove, they require the payment a month in advance which is very weird they are very good in handeling customers but the note 3 was delivered a couple of days later last year vs other suppliers.
M_M_F said:
This is the third time a buy a Note from Clove, they require the payment a month in advance which is very weird they are very good in handling customers but the note 3 was delivered a couple of days later last year vs other suppliers.
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Presume this is so you are locked in, and don't get a chance to see what deals are about on release day, But at least you wont have all the problems of getting the phone on release day.
[/QUOTE] .....weird....
It's not weird at all, they are simply using YOUR money to buy the phone from their supplier which means they can do the entire transaction without any of their money involved. Cashflow is a real killer for phone sellers because they may have to find the money to buy over 2000 Note4's in just a few days which is a million pounds
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.....weird....
It's not weird at all, they are simply using YOUR money to buy the phone from their supplier which means they can do the entire transaction without any of their money involved. Cashflow is a real killer for phone sellers because they may have to find the money to buy over 2000 Note4's in just a few days which is a million pounds
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Did I say it was weird?
I don't think I did?
REALLY ANNOYING APP ...
Yes in the Android app you quote someone or reply & it applies it to the next post along, it's been like it for ages but I forget. I had to go to desktop site & edit it as no edit option in the app...
Pat. said:
REALLY ANNOYING APP ...
Yes in the Android app you quote someone or reply & it applies it to the next post along, it's been like it for ages but I forget. I had to go to desktop site & edit it as no edit option in the app...
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No Problem :good:
UK release date is 10-Oct
w w w.telegraph.co.uk/technology/samsung/11105074/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-4-gets-UK-launch-date.html
Finally! Now I just need to decide to buy offline or sign a contract with Vodafone as currently with Lycamobile with a uk15 plan
I thought that it was October 17th for the US?
ronaldheld said:
I thought that it was October 17th for the US?
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10th in the UK, 17th in the US.
Samsung Experience Store in Stratford are taking pre-orders from today, with stock not due until the 12th of October.
And their price is £629....with a £30 deposit required for pre-orders. Looks like Clove is a much better price.
Is the Instruction manual anywhere to be found yet?
Upgrades Pre-orders from the 26th
Samsung Electronics today announced that the Galaxy Note 4 will be available to pre-order from Samsung Experience Stores across the country, including the Samsung Store at Westfield Stratford City, from Friday 19th September, followed by other selected online and high street retailers including Three and CPW from Friday 26th September, before it goes on general sale on Friday 10th October.
Well, looks like I'll have to wait a little longer for my O2 upgrade.
OdieS said:
Samsung Experience Store in Stratford are taking pre-orders from today, with stock not due until the 12th of October.
And their price is £629....with a £30 deposit required for pre-orders. Looks like Clove is a much better price.
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I rang them at 11.45 am and they said £629 & £50 deposit. I am going to clove.
It's possible that I misheard them, or they've changed their minds about the deposit amount, I called before 11am.
Either way, their price is not competitive at all and no pre-order 'freebies' either. Last year for the Note 3 launch they were a bit more competitive if you traded in a cheap phone for the £50 discount offer on launch day.
Looks like the 19th pre order for us in the UK is a bit of a farce, if we can only order from a small number of Samsung Experience Stores, or a company who wants your money well before the release date. ( prefer not to deal with that kind of company )
Is there no online preorder from samsung ? seem like in the US you are able to preorder from Amazon.
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Well I've pre-ordered My Note 4 From Clove UK & Now Just gotta sit back & wait till 13th October - Ahh well.
Anyone else joined the waiting game?
Ta
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I pre ordered from the Samsung Experience store at Stratford
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After my N3 experience there's no way Samsung is getting £650 from me. Gona wait til after Xmas. 40-50% price drop and build quality issues resolved.
Lucky stars out today, wangled..
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 for £9.99 with 10GB double speed 4G data and all the trimmings for £39.59 a month 8)
Was very tempted by the z3 Compact as it's a great phone and cheap on contract but thought I'd phone up and see what they could offer me on the Note 4, came up with £120 off the asking price and more data than I can eat for less than a tenner so I was easily swayed back to the device I've been eyeing up for months.
Tis a thing of beauty and power :good:
I'll be keeping an eye on this area of XDA for developments.
oursoul said:
Lucky stars out today, wangled..
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 for £9.99 with 10GB double speed 4G data and all the trimmings for £39.59 a month 8)
Was very tempted by the z3 Compact as it's a great phone and cheap on contract but thought I'd phone up and see what they could offer me on the Note 4, came up with £120 off the asking price and more data than I can eat for less than a tenner so I was easily swayed back to the device I've been eyeing up for months.
Tis a thing of beauty and power :good:
I'll be keeping an eye on this area of XDA for developments.
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£9.99? Wow!
I was on the phone to them at the weekend to enquire about early upgrade on a £39/month deal, they wanted £250 or thereabouts to cancel my existing contract then start a new contract at the same value for 2 years and pay £220 for the phone.
I told them to stuff it where the sun doesnt shine as I may as well buy the phone outright then when my contract expires next year I am free to move if I want.
That's ridiculous. I just ordered my upgrade with Three UK. No upgrade charge, £43pm all you can eat mins and data 4G as standard with Three.
I don't know how it is in UK but wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy Note 4 off contract and use some cheap pre-paid? Such contracts are usually long and you pay for the phone more than it costs during the years...
I pay about 3 pounds per month for my pre-paid (with about 1.5GB of free LTE transfer each month, cumulating when you don't use it, there are other options, this one is the cheapest) - although it's in Poland where prices are lower.
I worked out it was a bit cheaper to get the phone sim free, go onto a sim only 12 month contract on a new network using topcashback to get money back as well. I've moved onto Vodafone who I can also get a discount with. All the networks over here seemed to stop doing rollovers for unused contract stuff years ago so we don't have anything like that here that I'm aware of.
The problem comes with people having the capital to buy the phones outright. Not everyone can pay the ~£600-650 for a flagship phone in one hit so they spread it out over the 18-24 month contract. I personally don't like the idea of that so I buy outright and the way you can sell phones for a decent enough amount these days plus changing contracts/haggling for discounts on renewals if you play it properly you can upgrade your phone every year with a minimal cost to yourself once you do the initial purchase.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/note-4-uk-599-03-10-2014-t2871938
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So like many others I was excited to hear id be getting a free VR with the purchase of my S7 edge, it actually sold me on the phone as i had the Note 5 and was very pleased with it. Anyways I heard on the commercials "while supplies last" but i never imagined how limited said supplies are...300,000 to be exact. So I did some digging and couldnt find the number of s7 sales, but i did find an article that said pre-orders for the sales were much higher than the S6/E and the preorders for that was 15 million. So over 15mil preordered and only 300k VR's available????..... thats less than 2% of buyers that actually get a VR. I dont know about anyone else but this puts a very bad taste in my mouth for Samsung. Almost every advertisement ive seen was promoting a free VR with purchase. I think it borders on the line of false advertising.
What are your guys thoughts?
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So like many others I was excited to hear id be getting a free VR with the purchase of my S7 edge, it actually sold me on the phone as i had the Note 5 and was very pleased with it. Anyways I heard on the commercials "while supplies last" but i never imagined how limited said supplies are...300,000 to be exact. So I did some digging and couldnt find the number of s7 sales, but i did find an article that said pre-orders for the sales were much higher than the S6/E and the preorders for that was 15 million. So over 15mil preordered and only 300k VR's available????..... thats less than 2% of buyers that actually get a VR. I dont know about anyone else but this puts a very bad taste in my mouth for Samsung. Almost every advertisement ive seen was promoting a free VR with purchase. I think it borders on the line of false advertising.
What are your guys thoughts?
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Best buy, sprint, and a few others had their own stock that was in excess of the 300k. It's not as bad as it sounds.
aexp08 said:
So like many others I was excited to hear id be getting a free VR with the purchase of my S7 edge, it actually sold me on the phone as i had the Note 5 and was very pleased with it. Anyways I heard on the commercials "while supplies last" but i never imagined how limited said supplies are...300,000 to be exact. So I did some digging and couldnt find the number of s7 sales, but i did find an article that said pre-orders for the sales were much higher than the S6/E and the preorders for that was 15 million. So over 15mil preordered and only 300k VR's available????..... thats less than 2% of buyers that actually get a VR. I dont know about anyone else but this puts a very bad taste in my mouth for Samsung. Almost every advertisement ive seen was promoting a free VR with purchase. I think it borders on the line of false advertising.
What are your guys thoughts?
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I agree with squallz. Your comparing the total overall sales world wide of the s6 edge when you only need to look at the total sales for t-mobile. Samsung is giving away the gear vr for two reasons. 1 to boost s7 sales and 2 they want to drive the vr market which is rapidly expanding.
Nah, don't worry about it too much, they don't want to deal with mass lawsuit, plus they're basically already calculating the VR as a promo tool for people to invest in VR games/apps.
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I agree with squallz. Your comparing the total overall sales world wide of the s6 edge when you only need to look at the total sales for t-mobile. Samsung is giving away the gear vr for two reasons. 1 to boost s7 sales and 2 they want to drive the vr market which is rapidly expanding.
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Okay so I see now that my math is way off. I thought this was a worldwide promotiom, but its limited to the US. 15mil s6 preordered worldwide. I cant find a number for just the US.
But Intub8 it wasn't just for tmoblie. Its every carrier in the US.
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Okay so I see now that my math is way off. I thought this was a worldwide promotiom, but its limited to the US. 15mil s6 preordered worldwide. I cant find a number for just the US.
But Intub8 it wasn't just for tmoblie. Its every carrier in the US.
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Yes but every carrier has their own supply and those who purchased at best buy got their vr with their phone. T-mobile has their own 300 thousand units.
Really?! Well that gives me hope. I didnt see that info anywhere!
Bought my phone in the UK from Samsung and received my phone with the VR seems like only us etc have to redeem via a code
I'm on Verizon and opted for the free gear s2 watch which I'll probably sell and get the moto 360 or hauwei watch. I have a Google cardboard and though neat, I can't see myself using the VR often.
Fingers crossed I submitted in time. I pre-ordered on launch day and received phone on the 7th.
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I have pre-ordered to get these VR, but my carrier didn't get enough home, so i gotta wait 3 weeks before they come
IBought phone at best buy, no preorder, walked out with free credit, free 64gb micro SD and I got a free $30 gift card for using Samsung pay and I've gotten a few other free perks.
They said I had to choose an upgrade or pay over time option. So I chose the pay for it over 2years since it's 0% apr.
^just like if you registered Sammy pay by 3/10 they would send you a free wireless charger. They ran out and I did mine on 3/8
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Bought my phone in the UK from Samsung and received my phone with the VR seems like only us etc have to redeem via a code
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That's how I thought it would be when on pre ordered my S7 Edge on February 23rd.
I ordered my VZW GS7E through BB because VZW is brain-dead and will not sell an unactivated phone, even at full price, but they allow BB to do it!!! I got a Gear VR headset and 64GB microSD card free with the phone, through Best Buy. I wanted to get the free Gear 2 Smartwatch form VZW but they wouldn't let me order the phone (even at full price) without messing up my plan.
Samsung received my note 5 on the 22nd of September. Do they send you an email saying all is Good? When do you find out that they give you full credit?
For those who don't know and are thinking about trading in their old phones to Verizon; you can do the trade in at a Verizon store. They will will process it immediately so that the bill credit will take effect on your next bill. The process takes less than five minutes to do.
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For those who don't know and are thinking about trading in their old phones to Verizon; you can do the trade in at a Verizon store. They will will process it immediately so that the bill credit will take effect on your next bill. The process takes less than five minutes to do.
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Wished they had this for tmobile. I had to send my trade in so I'll just have to wait it out.
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Received Note 8 on 9-8
Sent S7E on 9-13,
Received "trade in received" email from Verizon on 9-20
Received email today (9-27) stating: Final Trade-In value: $20 per month for 24 months
Verizon page to check status shows the same info so I get the full 480.00. I'm pleased.
Ok, thanks for the info. So about 7 to 10 days I should get something from Samsung. Last loose end to tie up with this purchase. I am prepared, made a video of the mint condition note 5 as proof so Samsung can't say it was in bad shape.
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I ordered my Note 8 from samsung and sent an iphone 5s. After a couple of days I just logged into my samsung account and all the info was there. Got $425 off the Note 8 as I used to have a Note 7. In fact, all of my Samsung phones are in my account going back to the S3. Even my old tablets.