Dead: Trade in any working smartphone at BB for $100 credit towards iPhone

[CrackRabbit]

Did this yesterday with an OG Droid.
As long as the phone turns on, doesn't have a cracked screen or severely damaged body and no water damage you can trade it in for the credit.
There are some caveats;

• YMMV on if the phone is accepted for trade. It all kinda depends on the people working at that time. I had no problems with my Droid and some people next to me were trading in an Galaxy S II with no issue. I do not know if Blackberry phones qualify.

• You have to use the gift card towards the purchase of an iPhone 5s or 5c.

• You must be a new customer or have an upgrade on your contract available to use.

Basically if you want a new iPhone and have a working, but otherwise useless old phone you can trade it in and get more than it is worth out of it. If you don't like the iPhone you can always sell it and move whatever phone you were using back on to your contract.

Update: For the few of you wanting a 5c Best Buy has sweetened the deal by adding a $50 gift card (towards a future purchase) with any 5c purchase.
Meaning you now make $50 instead of just getting the phone for free.

Update 2: Looks like the promotion ended last Friday and they replaced with a not as sweet offer on an LG G2.

 

[Spelvin]

I am going to try this with a BlackBerry 8830 and an HTC Touch Pro2. Fingers crossed.

 

[MustISO]

I'm going to trade in my phone this weekend.

 

[hdeck]

Not a single Best Buy in Houston has any 5s model in stock Such a tease.

 

[thegimp03]

I wonder if we could do this with some old iPhone 3's we have...the back casing of my iPhone 4 looks like what happens when a big rock hits a car's windshield on the freeway.

 

[jalaram]

Can we use this on a full price/no contract phone?

 

[xBiffx]

Can we use this on a full price/no contract phone?

You must be a new customer or have an upgrade on your contract available to use.

Pretty much says it in the OP. BB is doing this because they are getting a kickback for signing you up or extending your contract.

 

[CrackRabbit]

I wonder if we could do this with some old iPhone 3's we have...the back casing of my iPhone 4 looks like what happens when a big rock hits a car's windshield on the freeway.

As long as they boot and the touch screen works I don't see why you couldn't trade them in.

Pretty much says it in the OP. BB is doing this because they are getting a kickback for signing you up or extending your contract.

Quite probable. They also do a rather hard sell on the accessories, that is where they make their real money at.

 

[exar333]

Rather get more money and sell mine.

 

[Spelvin]

So the phones I traded in had a $0.00 value on their site, but were eligiable for the $100 gift cards.

They also did not have any Verizon 5s units in Gray or whatever it is called, so I ended up with the gold...Oh well, still worth it for the price.

 

[RossMAN]

Which T-Mobile MVNO's work on the iPhone 5s?

Yeah I'd probably have to payoff the phone ($650 or whatever - 100 upgrade).

 

[HopJokey]

So the phones I traded in had a $0.00 value on their site, but were eligiable for the $100 gift cards.

They also did not have any Verizon 5s units in Gray or whatever it is called, so I ended up with the gold...Oh well, still worth it for the price.

You can probably flip that gold one on eBay and buy a gray one and still make $$$.

 

[karbyn]

bingo! thx

 

[NutBucket]

If I had any interest at all I would see if my Palm Pre qualifies

 

[texasfury]

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