Current the s23+ is listed at $750 on the Samsung Shop mobile app. Various trade ins are listed at $200, but if applied yield a total of $600 for the phone… the way they justify this is that because the phone is originally $1000, and it’s being discounted by 25%, they take $200 off of the original price of the phone before applying the discount. I.e. ($1000-$200)*0.75=$600. So your trade in is really only valued at $150 by Samsung.
In my opinion it’s shady to advertise the $750 price (after the discount) but NOT advertise the trade in value after the discount.
How many times did you try? I got the S23 Ultra 256GB for $249.99 with fold 4 trade in and the student discount.
The savings were $800 trade in credit and $150 student discount which should be the normal way of calculating it. They were also offering a bundle for the tab S9U for free if you traded in a tab S8U which I did.
But the cart was all over the place, given me different numbers every time I refreshed, first 449 then 399 then finally 249.
But I do everything through the website, once the app locks a price it doesn’t change.
That’s interesting. I didn’t try a lot from the app. I’ll try again but thanks for telling me