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People will never learn. You don't preorder Pixels, there are always better deals on Black Friday (literally in few weeks, just a week after Pixel start shippin

by krzyk 5y ago

People will never learn. You don't preorder Pixels, there are always better deals on Black Friday (literally in few weeks, just a week after Pixel start shipping). Never take preorders, especially with Pixels. (learned that hard with Pixel 3).

fomine3 5y ago
Also consider that now everything is in shortage.
wpietri 5y ago
And personally, I won't buy anything directly from Google ever again. Their customer service for me has been terrible. I'll happily buy another Pixel, but from pretty much anybody else.
- krzyk 5y ago
  Yeah. But I was lucky during Pixel 3 preorders, after 3 weeks the phone was off 100 Euro, I wrote to customer service and magically they gave me back 100 Euro price difference. For Pixel 4 I waited till January when it was finally available in German Amazon, after a year NFC stopped working, and Amazon returned me the whole amount after I returned the phone (they didn't have Pixel 4 in store for replacement).
ac29 5y ago
Pre-orders come with free Pixel Buds ($99), which if you care, is a nice bonus. With all the supply chain issues this past year, you might not even be able to buy one come Black Friday, much less at a discount or with a better freebie.
- heffer 5y ago
  In Germany (and some other EU countries) pre-orders come with Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 (A ~270 EUR value). Here in Canada not only is the phone more expensive, it also "only" comes with Pixel Buds which are a ~CAD 160 value after tax. The Bose headphones are also more expensive in Canada (as pretty much anything except gas and electricity) so they'd be an even better value here. So I'll investigate if there are significant (to me) differences between the EU and Canada models and may just order it in Germany then.
  - gpm 5y ago
    > Here in Canada not only is the phone more expensive, it also "only" comes with Pixel Buds which are a ~CAD 160 value after tax Wait... what? I thought it was describing them as half off not free and didn't add them :( Seem to be out of stock now, so I can't go back and fix it. Damn.
hocuspocus 5y ago
Not true with last year's Pixels in several European countries. We got $200 Bose headphones during preorders. There was never a better time to buy them after that. Probably the same thing with the Pixel 6/6P this year.
- krzyk 5y ago
  > Probably the same thing with the Pixel 6/6P this year. This is a big bet, but based on history Pixel 2, 3 and 4. It was better to wait for either Black Friday or Xmas sales. I didn't look at Pixel 5 (wasn't interested in it). (This ignores US based promos from service providers)
- krzyk 5y ago
  And do you need $200 Bose headphones? Do you think it will be easy to sell them? Better get $200 off of the phone price then get freebies.
  - hocuspocus 5y ago
    It's super easy to resell them, it took me a couple days last year even though they were the QC35 II (which were heavily discounted right and left around Black Friday). It'll be only easier this year with the 700. Sure, it'd be much easier for everyone to get a $200 discount but that just hasn't happened at all after preorders.
    - krzyk 5y ago
      > Sure, it'd be much easier for everyone to get a $200 discount but that just hasn't happened at all after preorders. Yes it did: https://www.engadget.com/2018-11-15-google-pixel-3-black-friday-deals.html https://www.engadget.com/2018-11-15-google-pixel-3-black-fri... That's the reason I prefer to wait.
      - hocuspocus 5y ago
        That's completely irrelevant to last year's models. And there were no preorders for the Pixel 3.

by krzyk 5y ago

fomine3 5y ago

Also consider that now everything is in shortage.

wpietri 5y ago

And personally, I won't buy anything directly from Google ever again. Their customer service for me has been terrible. I'll happily buy another Pixel, but from pretty much anybody else.

krzyk 5y ago
Yeah. But I was lucky during Pixel 3 preorders, after 3 weeks the phone was off 100 Euro, I wrote to customer service and magically they gave me back 100 Euro price difference. For Pixel 4 I waited till January when it was finally available in German Amazon, after a year NFC stopped working, and Amazon returned me the whole amount after I returned the phone (they didn't have Pixel 4 in store for replacement).

ac29 5y ago

Pre-orders come with free Pixel Buds ($99), which if you care, is a nice bonus. With all the supply chain issues this past year, you might not even be able to buy one come Black Friday, much less at a discount or with a better freebie.

heffer 5y ago
In Germany (and some other EU countries) pre-orders come with Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 (A ~270 EUR value). Here in Canada not only is the phone more expensive, it also "only" comes with Pixel Buds which are a ~CAD 160 value after tax. The Bose headphones are also more expensive in Canada (as pretty much anything except gas and electricity) so they'd be an even better value here. So I'll investigate if there are significant (to me) differences between the EU and Canada models and may just order it in Germany then.
- gpm 5y ago
  > Here in Canada not only is the phone more expensive, it also "only" comes with Pixel Buds which are a ~CAD 160 value after tax Wait... what? I thought it was describing them as half off not free and didn't add them :( Seem to be out of stock now, so I can't go back and fix it. Damn.

hocuspocus 5y ago

Not true with last year's Pixels in several European countries. We got $200 Bose headphones during preorders. There was never a better time to buy them after that. Probably the same thing with the Pixel 6/6P this year.

krzyk 5y ago
> Probably the same thing with the Pixel 6/6P this year. This is a big bet, but based on history Pixel 2, 3 and 4. It was better to wait for either Black Friday or Xmas sales. I didn't look at Pixel 5 (wasn't interested in it). (This ignores US based promos from service providers)
krzyk 5y ago
And do you need $200 Bose headphones? Do you think it will be easy to sell them? Better get $200 off of the phone price then get freebies.
- hocuspocus 5y ago
  It's super easy to resell them, it took me a couple days last year even though they were the QC35 II (which were heavily discounted right and left around Black Friday). It'll be only easier this year with the 700. Sure, it'd be much easier for everyone to get a $200 discount but that just hasn't happened at all after preorders.
  - krzyk 5y ago
    > Sure, it'd be much easier for everyone to get a $200 discount but that just hasn't happened at all after preorders. Yes it did: https://www.engadget.com/2018-11-15-google-pixel-3-black-friday-deals.html https://www.engadget.com/2018-11-15-google-pixel-3-black-fri... That's the reason I prefer to wait.
    - hocuspocus 5y ago
      That's completely irrelevant to last year's models. And there were no preorders for the Pixel 3.