Does anyone know if Best buy or Verizon corporate stores will have the Pixel XL on display before lunch day. I preorder mine but hate not having the chance to have a feel for it before it arrive. Im most worry about the size it been bigger than my Note 7 ( wich im going to return ASAP ONCE Pixel XL arrive!!??)Thanks!!
Best Buy might have it on release day. Any Verizon store will surely have it on display
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Do you think the the timing is off for the holiday season? Black Friday is the formal kick of to the shipping season and the average consumer will be wobbling into store then. I think most people like to touch and feel a phone before buying it. When do you think the pixel phones will be in Best Buy and Verizon? Do you see this as an issue, given the move from Nexus to Pixel and the fact that their direct competition is already on the shelf.
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It may be in AT&T by then.
I'm looking into buying the pixel Xl not through Verizon butvit looks like its sold out in the play store where else can I buy?.
I think the only other places are best buy and the project fi site. I'm betting they are sold out as well.
Amazon or eBay for 1500$ ?
okay so Bestbuy has pixel XL black 32gb in stock, can pickup same day whatever. get them to hopefully price match google or verizon as it makes sense?... anywho, what i want to know is can i unlock my verizon bestbuy pixel and adb flash it to googles standard stock rom their pixel comes with and will it receive updates, unlocked, and adb flashed to 100% stock? and will there be any difference between my phone and googles minus the fact I picked it up at BestBuy, and also for any form of warranty support, would I contact google? I know back in the 6P days if you bought it at bestbuy youd have to contact hauwei as google didnt support it at that point.. it had to be bought from them...
or should i suck it up, wait for the XL on googles website......
Similar situation here. Both Bestbuy and Verizon store has the Pixel XL in-stock, but Google Play currently shows XL out of stock. I saw other forums that try and persuade people to not buy from Verizon because their boot loader is encrypted and can't be unlocked. I don't think this is true, but I would like to verify. It's just a pain to have to do all of this work to get Android stock installed. I just want an unlocked Pixel and go on my way.
PS: It's weird that the XL version is out of stock, all colors (silver, black, blue) and memory (32gb and 128gb) are all sold out on Google Play. I see people upcharging these devices on Ebay and Amazon for twice as much as what you would pay on Google Play. Ridiculous. I can wait.
I walked into best buy and walked out with a 32 gig two weeks ago. The guy selling it to me was pissed because he was still waiting on his. Fair warning though, best buy doesn't carry the 128 gig
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As of today you can still unlock the best buy and Verizon bootloader's with depixel8
Hey,
I would like to get some advices before I purchase a Pixel XL
what would be a better choice if I am not willing to buy a brand new Pixel XL
a used one from swappa (mint condition)
a refurbished phone from ebay (it was refurbished by a company approved by the manufacturer), with only 30-days seller warranty..
the price is almost the same for both phones.
the only thing that would worry me with the refurbished is if the screen was the reason for the refurb, then maybe they did not install an Original replacement ? could this happen?
what would you advice me to do?
Not sure if there are panels by other manufacturers, I think they are all literally the same. So if a screen was replaced, it was replaced by the same quality part that was in to begin with.
Personally, I'd go swappa, I use swappa constantly and I think there is a 60 day return thing with them (can't remember)
I bought mine from Swappa and it was such an easy buying experience.
I would just go through eBay either way you're going to be good.
There was a sale previously from Google Store.
https://slickdeals.net/f/10436708-g...-to-200-off?src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1
I think before or after Pixel 2 released, there would be another round of sale, if you are not in hurry to purchase.
zaher.bahouth said:
Hey,
I would like to get some advices before I purchase a Pixel XL
what would be a better choice if I am not willing to buy a brand new Pixel XL
a used one from swappa (mint condition)
a refurbished phone from ebay (it was refurbished by a company approved by the manufacturer), with only 30-days seller warranty..
the price is almost the same for both phones.
the only thing that would worry me with the refurbished is if the screen was the reason for the refurb, then maybe they did not install an Original replacement ? could this happen?
what would you advice me to do?
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Get Swappa you could find a good deal a lot of times the sellers throw in accessories. but I would tell you if you could wait for a few months you should for Pixel 2.
I have sold on SWAPPA and have not had any issues. I have not bought anything as of yet. I do like EBay as well and have sold and bought from there.
Just look at the persons feedback. I would try SWAPPA before Ebay.
Get one on swappa that's mint and not a refurbished one
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I'm in the market for a phone for under $600. Obviously (and hopefully) the pixel's price should drop once the pixel 2 hits the market. Any idea when this will happen and how much of a reduction we're looking at? Any idea if we'll have an idea after the press conference on Wednesday? I saw a s8 today for $599 with no strings attached from my carrier (T-Mobile) so I'm considering that but also want to see what the price will be for the old pixel.
mozahsuf said:
I'm in the market for a phone for under $600. Obviously (and hopefully) the pixel's price should drop once the pixel 2 hits the market. Any idea when this will happen and how much of a reduction we're looking at? Any idea if we'll have an idea after the press conference on Wednesday? I saw a s8 today for $599 with no strings attached from my carrier (T-Mobile) so I'm considering that but also want to see what the price will be for the old pixel.
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Once released you should see about a 50% drop in the price.
zelendel said:
Once released you should see about a 50% drop in the price.
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That's a little high. I would say 35-40% except you go for the refurbished which could be about 50% lower. Don't forget production for the old pixel ceased, all you have left is the inventory and refurbished units.
Now a new resale of XL 128G would be around 500, comparing to USD 869 for a brand new from Google Store.
jerryhou85 said:
Now a new resale of XL 128G would be around 500, comparing to USD 869 for a brand new from Google Store.
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djide said:
That's a little high. I would say 35-40% except you go for the refurbished which could be about 50% lower. Don't forget production for the old pixel ceased, all you have left is the inventory and refurbished units.
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I'd love if this were to happen. Any idea on when we'd see these reductions based on recent trends? (e.g. the Nexus 6p dropping when the Pixel came out, the S7 dropping when the S8 came out, and so on. When does this usually happen?)
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Now a new resale of XL 128G would be around 500, comparing to USD 869 for a brand new from Google Store.
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New or refurbished for $500?
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New or refurbished for $500?
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Oooops, saw it wrongly. That was a blue 32G Pixel for 500.
But it seems $500 can buy a mint/good condition Pixel XL 128G.
https://swappa.com/buy/google-pixel-xl-unlocked
I scored a brand new never opened 128gb XL from an eBay auction for $605 a few days ago...it even came with the $89 LifeProof case sold on the Google store