[SOLVED] Want new cell phone - but no trade in - Am I screwed?

[Titanion]

Verizon. I still have my old Samsung S5, not qualifying for a trade in, and my son has an S7, cracked and we have replaced the battery twice, voiding any warranty, and when I look at all the deals for S21 phones or good upgrades, all the good deals are for trade ins.

My wife and daughter both have iPhones and current Verizon contracts; I am not wanting to leave Verizon, and they offer the best service in my area.

Any advice on getting a good deal replacing these S5 and S7 with no trade in?

Thanks

 

[punkncat]

Verizon is also a really good provider locally. The only deals they seemed to be offering were iPhone deals along with adding a line.
If you qualify they do offer interest free financing across a contract period.

 

[kanewolf]

Verizon. I still have my old Samsung S5, not qualifying for a trade in, and my son has an S7, cracked and we have replaced the battery twice, voiding any warranty, and when I look at all the deals for S21 phones or good upgrades, all the good deals are for trade ins.

My wife and daughter both have iPhones and current Verizon contracts; I am not wanting to leave Verizon, and they offer the best service in my area.

Any advice on getting a good deal replacing these S5 and S7 with no trade in?

Thanks

I had an S5. After looking at Samsung phones, I opted for an unlocked A51. The A51 is available in 4G and 5G models. Look at the midrange A51 and A71 before deciding that an S21 is the best answer.

 

[Titanion]

There are so many phones out there. I will look into the A51 and A71. If I hold onto this phone for the next five years, I want it to be a good one.

 

[kanewolf]

There are so many phones out there. I will look into the A51 and A71. If I hold onto this phone for the next five years, I want it to be a good one.

I have been pleased with the A51. It is similar size to the S5 but has 128GB storage (rather than 16GB my S5 had). I don't know about battery replacement, yet. It does have USB-C connector, so there is no "top/bottom" of the plug. Mine is also a dual SIM model.
Samsung has a migration assistant that makes swapping to a new Samsung phone trivial.

 

[Alabalcho]

If you have to pay full price (as it seems these S5, S7 are worth noting), S20 FE is a good compromise.

 

[hang-the-9]

Verizon. I still have my old Samsung S5, not qualifying for a trade in, and my son has an S7, cracked and we have replaced the battery twice, voiding any warranty, and when I look at all the deals for S21 phones or good upgrades, all the good deals are for trade ins.

My wife and daughter both have iPhones and current Verizon contracts; I am not wanting to leave Verizon, and they offer the best service in my area.

Any advice on getting a good deal replacing these S5 and S7 with no trade in?

Thanks

A lot of places offer pretty small monthly payments on new phones even on existing plans. I got one from BestBuy, Motorola Z4 with a value of about $500, for like $12 a month for two years. You don't need a new service signed up but I think they do extend the existing one for the two years for the cheaper payments.

The Samsung A51 you can get now for under $11 a month https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-galaxy-a51-prism-crush-black-verizon/6401461.p?skuId=6401461
It's $300 unlocked for GSM on Amazon, the 11 a month for 24 months gets it to you for about $250 and you probably won't miss paying the $11 extra per month on the bill.

You can probably look into swapping the S7 your son has also for one of those.

When I did the swap I was on a business trip with my phone having issues with the charging port, they swapped it out with the new one pretty quickly, the wait to see a tech was longer than the actual SIM card activation and getting it added to my Verizon account, so a good experience with them and there should be a store close enough to you for a drive to get things swapped out in person rather than mess with some online activation.

 

[Titanion]

Thanks everyone. I put it out of my mind some, but I still have these old phones and need to deal with it pretty soon.