If you or a fellow Verizon Wireless customer are go through some post - holiday mobile earphone buyer ’s remorse , the iPhone ’s new carrier will offer a gift batting order if you trade in your headphone and buy an iPhone 4 for full price . as luck would have it , though , you might not have to drop all that money if you bring back your sound under Verizon ’s existing return insurance .
AsElectronistanotes , Verizon has restfully harbinger that if you bought a unexampled speech sound during the holiday shopping season , you could receive up to a $ 200 Visa debit poster when you fetch the telephone back to Verizon and purchase a newfangled iPhone 4 at the full Leontyne Price of either $ 599 for the 16 GB model or $ 699 for the 32 GB good example . ( The phones be $ 200 and $ 300 , respectively , with a two - year committedness . ) This goes for smartphones like a BlackBerry or Android phone , feature earphone , or even pre - have phones .
To be eligible for the Visa debit wag , you must have purchase your existing phone between November 26 , 2010 and January 10 , 2011 . You also involve to jump on this deal by the final stage of February and must be a consumer with five or few lines on your account . However , it ’s deserving pointing out a few key points about this batch that will probably make it less sympathetic for the majority of potential customers .
First , the Visa debit entry calling card that Verizon Wireless is offer can not be applied to your new iPhone 4 . It is essentially an instant rebate in the form of a endowment card that you’re able to habituate on speech sound accessories or taking your significant other out to dinner .
More important is the fact that Verizon Wireless ’s worldwide counter insurance policy for phones ( and contract bridge ) purchased over the vacation seas is 30 days . So many of you may still have some time to just return the headphone , get your money back for it , and get out of the declaration that you signed ( less the cost of any minutes , message , and data that you used during your first calendar month ) . This elbow room , you may hold open a few hundred dollar by just hold back for Verizon to start offering the iPhone and going through the signup birdcall and trip the light fantastic toe one more clock time .
I called Verizon Wireless ’s customer financial backing to verify this information and got another interesting tidbit . While the carrier ’s return policy has been 30 days for quite some time , it change this policy on January 16 , 2011 to only 14 days . Holiday shoppers still get the 30 - day insurance policy , I confirmed , but you now only get to pass half of that time with any phone ( and accompanying contract bridge ) purchased after the centre of this month .
Updated at 12:36pm PT to mull over Verizon ’s right counter policies .
