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Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 1:26 AM

Xfinity Trade in special scam! Be Aware

I received a lot of emails saying get an upgrade to unlimited premium and get an iphone 17 pro on us. However, After I upgraded to unlimited premium, I have to pay full price for that! No credit at all! Another thing is on the website, they state the same thing. Get $1100 when you trade in. However, every time when It goes to checkout. I have to pay full $54.16 again! Total scam!

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5 months ago

Thanks for posting on our Community Forums, user_c72f00. I'm sorry to hear the promotion is not working on your end. We'd like to help! Could you please send our team a Direct Message with your name and service address? Our team can take a further look at this issue.

 

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@XfinityDilary​ I tried it with the chat agent. The chat agent cannot help. I have talked to two different agents. They cannot understand my question. and always try to sell me the stuff which I don't need. They kept saying oh you don't get the discount but you can get a watch, but you get international calls to Canada and Mexico. I have to keep telling them No, I don't need a watch, I don't need international calls. It is just frustrating. 

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@XfinityDilary

I used the Direct Messaging chat and finally connected with an agent who explained things more clearly. She was confused at first as well because her system showed two different numbers, but after checking with her supervisor, we think we figured it out. Here’s the breakdown:

It seems the confusion started with the pre-order process. The $1100 trade-in credit only applies once the trade-in is completed. Since I couldn’t submit the trade-in until after I received my new phone, the credit didn’t show up during the pre-order. For now, I’m being charged the regular device price of $54.16 per month, plus a one-time tax and fee of $133.25, making my initial payment $187.41.

Once I receive my new phone and trade in the old one, the $1100 credit will begin applying along with the online promotion that lowers the monthly price to $50.37. At that point, I should also see retroactive credits: two months of trade-in credits plus the $3.79 per month difference between the regular price of $54.16 and the discounted price of $50.37.

After I received my new phone and traded in my old one, the $1100 credit and the discount I saw online, which brings the regular price down to $50.37 starts coming in. At that time, I should expect two months of $45.83 trade-in credits plus the credits of two $3.79 difference between the sale price of $50.37 and the regular price of $54.16.

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5 months ago

Complete agree, two live agents I have chatted:
1. One does not know completely about the offer "Add a line or upgrade an existing device and save up to $1100 when you choose Premium Unlimited and trade in your phone." and keeps trying to sell me something else which I completely do not need;

2. The second agent keeps saying "I would like to share with you that you are now in the fourth generation plan, and we need to change the generation to the fifth generation. You will get this offer in the upgrade plan."

In the offer terms and conditions there is no mentioning of "generation plan" limitation, because I am already on Premium Unlimited line.

I would love the real Xfinity agent to get in touch

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@fallever​ exactly. I had a similar issue with Xfinity Internet. I talked to 7 agents regarding the same issue. 3 phone agents and 4 chat agents. all of them said it is fixed but it is not. I had to file an FCC complaint, and then they called me the next day and actually solve my problem.

So each time I contact them or see all this false offers, I make a lot of screen shots, saved all my chat transcript and record my phone calls. It really helps when making the FCC complaint.

Very frustrating. Too bad they are the only internet choice I had in my area

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@user_c72f00​ I have had a similar experience with Xfinity mobile.  First, their call service people and chat people are just incompetent fools.  They have lied to me so many times, I lost count.  In Nov. 2025 they lured me into switching from ATT to Xfin for all of our 3 lines.  We traded in an iphone14 pro and iphone 15 pro.  They gave me $240 for the 14 pro which was much less than the phone's worth.  Then, the nightmare started.  I got an email that said they would give us $830 for the 15 and that I had to click a link to accept the offer otherwise it would expire in 10 days.  Except that the link did not work and I did not get the trade in money. I had already paid in cash the difference between the old phone and the 2 new 17 pros plus activation fees plus some other unknown charges totaling $92 for each phone (excluding the money for the phone prices).

I started chatting with agents online and calling the call center to get the $830 trade in money and every time they told me a new story.  I spent hours and hours with them to no avail.  One Indian woman actually told me that I had lost my money, they would not return the old phones and there was not anything I can do.  At some point, I decided to visit a local store in Naples Fl.  The store manage (a young African American woman) was extremely rude and treated me as if I was trying to rob them or something.  She did create a "ticket" and said that the "operations manager" will be calling me in the next 2 days.  No calls.  Went back to the store, same sob story and no help.  Then, I decided to use their web site and file an "arbitration complaint."  Now, we are in Late December.  Nothing happened until Dec. 24th and a guy calls me and says he is from the arbitration department and that the money is going to show up in my account the next day.  It was a lie.   Now, we are in mid-January.  I decided to file another "arbitration complaint" and also filed a complaint with the BBB of Florida.  10 days later I get a call from the same guy who had called before and said, they gave me $700 credit.  I said. no I am supposed to get $830.  So, he agreed and added another $130 credit to my account.  If I had known that Xfinity mobile is so horrible, I would have never switched from ATT.  Our major challenge is where we live, there are no ATT towers and our cell service used to be weak to none.  So, yes, Xfin uses bait and switch.  I was also told at the beginning that the new phones would be free.  One other scam, every time I called they wanted to give me "free" apple watches and the push was relentless.  The scam is that the watches are not operational until you activate them and pay a monthly charge of $10.  Of course I refused every time.

Visitor

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4 months ago

Also if your phone gets lost or stolen Xfinity will not honor the promotion. They will send give you your money back. 

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user_br3hfl Thank you for the update, and I'm glad to hear you got your money back. I'd like to help you get a new phone, and look into your promotion. Since I will need account details, we ask that you send us a Direct Message to look into this further. I look forward to working with you today! 
 
Click "Sign In" if necessary
Click the "Direct Message" icon or  https://forums.xfinity.com/direct-messaging
Click the "New message" (pen and paper) icon
The "To:" line prompts you to "Type the name of a person". Instead, type "Xfinity Support" there.
As you are typing a drop-down list appears. Select "Xfinity Support" from that list.
A "Xfinity Support" graphic replaces the "To:" line.
Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window 
Press Enter to send it

 

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