Should I buy with a 22% discount or wait until Black Friday?
Should I buy with a 22% discount or wait until Black Friday?
I want to get a Pixel 8. Here it costs 800€, and only today because it is 11/11 a popular provider offers a 22% off, being 623 the end price. Do you know if they get a bigger discount on Black Friday or is this a very good offer? Thanks.
Sounds like a very good offer, I doubt black friday prices will be better.
9I got the pixel 8. If you plan to keep your phone for 7 years, you might as well get the one that is overpowered now, because in a few years it will perform better than anything else you can buy now.
4Black Friday is a scam. 22% is already pretty nice.
4Thanks everyone for your comments and opinions. I ordered the Pixel 8.
3Also, likely not a very good idea but I'll put it out here if someone can confirm whether it's legit: there seems to be a Singles Day on Aliexpress right now and they're selling the Pixel 7a for €339 (after using their promo code). The major catch though is that those are US, Taiwanese or Japanese units, so probably there will be a difference in phone signal strength as the bands are likely not the same as in Europe. For those interested: https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005005762525795.html
1It's good, you get for as cheaper and reasonable timed. also, patience is not waiting for a certain moment of time but to accept your current status for the moment that when the good opportunities appear, then you are prepared to take advantage of the good times.
0Since you mentioned in another comment that you're sensitive to the price, another good option would be to look at the used market as sometimes you can find very good deals. For example, right now there's an auction on Ebay for a Pixel 7a that seems to be in very good condition and which ends tomorrow and right now they're at €299: https://www.ebay.de/itm/386256899286 . I haven't searched that much and you probably can find even better deals.
0Holy moly I would never spend that much on new phone. If you can, I'd say wait for the Pixel 8a to come out. If you can't wait that long, the 7 series will surely be discounted by now.
I personally got a Pixel 7a for $375 USD a few months ago and honestly I feel I should have went for the 6a which went on sale for $200 right after.
If you're serious that you definitely need the 8, then maybe you're not very sensitive to price; in which case you could just get it today
-4I'm indeed very sensitive to the price. However, here in the EU the prices are much higher and a Pixel 7a costs 509€ in Google store and the 6a 349€.
I've been using my phone for almost 6 years now and now that I started uni I need a phone that doesn't crash when opening Gmail or takes too long to do any thing. I'm sure the 7, 7a or 6a can do this fine but I'm trying to get the 8 because of the 7 years support so I can flash graphene and forget, while the others have less than 5 years if I buy them now.
And yes it is a huge amount of cash for me, I never had a phone that expensive, but I feel like I need a phone like this one and its original price is almost 200€ more expensive so that's why I'm asking here. Can't even consider iPhone as they're literally unaffordable for me.
8I too flashed it with GrapheneOS and it is pretty great (though some features work differently than the default OS). The long support life is one of the biggest selling points. GrapheneOS has hinted that they will likely support the 7 series even longer than the 5 year window if possible.
In my opinion, flagship phones are quite overpowered for reasonable use cases, so you're better off with a cheaper option. IMO such an expensive phone only makes sense if you need the extra power for gaming or if you really need the higher quality camera.
Maybe you can buy a used 7 series? I'm not sure how the market works in the EU, but in the States people often trade in their old phones when the next model comes out, which is great for the second-hand market. I bought mine on Amazon from a third-party seller.
If after all that you're sure you still want the 8 then you may as well get it now.
Note since you mentioned GrapheneOS: never buy a phone that was previously from Verizon. They're a scummy carrier in the US that locks the bootloader so you can never install another OS. Pixel devices have a 5 digit code that specifies the model variant. Always check that a used phone is not a Verizon variant and therefore ruined by this awful practice
5If cost is an issue, I, too, would go for a 6 (pro). The pixels are phones that will be valid for a long time.
If you want it to live 5 yrs, you might consider what few consider: which pixel can get the best case (and screen That adds a good few bucks too. Don't go cheap or "cool" here. UAG has some seriously good ones, sadly not for the 6pro e.g.
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