That's a pretty sweet deal. On 11/25/18, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Well, my main employee/store manager who has the same plan from the same > carrier, Koodo Mobil, here in Canada just told me he was about to upgrade > his iPhone 6 because they were offering a really good deal on the iPhone 8 > 64 Gb. > I had a look and my wife and I decided this was too good of an opportunity > to pass up so we have also ordered our iPhone 8, Gold for y wife and Space > Grey as usual for me. > > For others here in Canada, here is the deal, this is from our perspective as > already existing Koodo customers: > We pay $150 (Canadian of course) up front > Koodo then bills us an extra $15 per month on top of what we pay for our > plan for a period of 2 years, i.e. $15 for 24 months = $360. > After the 2 years our monthly charge goes back to what we pay now which is > $49 for 6Gb of data and unlimited Canada wide calling and texting + regular > voice mail, visual voice mail would be $2/month extra. > Total cost for the iPhone 8 64Gb after 2 years is $510 Canadian. > > I just looked in the Apple Store app and if I were to buy an iPhone 8 64Gb > directly from Apple it would cost $820 Canadian which means we get it for > $310 less. > Of course we can sell my wife's 6S 64Gb and my 6S Plus 64Gb, both had new > batteries installed by Apple 6 months ago and are cosmetically virtually > pristine with glass screen protectors and always in a slim but good > protective case. > I had a look on eBay and I have seen mostly prices of around $300 Canadian > for the 6S and $400 for the 6S Plus, even if we sell for a total of $500 for > both phones that means it covers the $300 initial up front payment for the > new phones and it leaves at least enough for 6 months of payments out of the > 2 years for both of us. > This means ultimately the new iPhone 8 will have cost me maybe $250 give or > take $10 or $20. One factor why we decided to go for this deal is also that > I though while in a year there might be a similarly good deal the value of > our 6S and 6S Plus phones would be quite a bit less after another year. > > I also scored some good deals on some wireless charging pads since apart > from the better water proofness of the iPhone 8 the wireless charging is > probably the feature I like the most. > I could have gotten an iPhone XR for $550 + the $15 a month, a total of $910 > after two years, but that isn't as much less as if I had bought one outright > and we just didn't feel like spending that much. The iPhone 8 should do us > for at least 3 to 4 years now just as our 6S phones did and by then OLED > screens, Face Id will be old and established features and who knows, the > phones in 3 years may even have Face Id in addition to Touch Id which works > wherever you touch the screen. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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