Following up on yesterday’s Xbox Music/Nokia Lumia deal, Microsoft is also offering another deal through its retail stores whereby any lightly used smartphone or tablet with all accessories and no damage is eligible for a trade-in credit of up to $250 to use towards anything in the store, with the focus on upselling the Surface 2 tablet or a Windows Phone 8 smartphone. The offer is only valid at Microsoft retail locations in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico and is not valid online. The offer runs until March 2nd.
Microsoft Retail Stores Offering Up To $250 Trade-In Credit For Smartphones or Tablets
Humberto Saabedra
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Very disappointed — I went down to my local MS store and the program was not as good as I hoped. The full discount only applies to the newest, best phones (i.e. the newest iPhone). My Lumia 900 in perfect condition they offered me a cool $20 for, and the other, older working smartphone I offered to give them they offered me $0 for.
Plus, they didn’t even have the Lumia 920 I wanted — only available at the online MS store they said….
You would be better off selling your phone on Craigslist or at a pawn shop.
MS should have done the right thing and had a real promotion, whereby any working smartphone or tablet would net the $250 coupon. Alas this was nothing more than “gazelle.com” in disguise, with an additional middleman to boot.
Wow, thanks for saving me the trip, I’d probably owe them money trading in my Optimus L9, and I want the 920 also.
It’s a joke same thing happened to me I took my bb playbook brand new. They just offered me $25 hahaha wasted my time they need to be real