This post is NOT directed at people who took advantage yesterday’s travel gift card deal or who tried to do so. This post is directed at people who bought a phone from Google Fi earlier, e.g. on a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal.
A few readers commented about the bad feeling when buying a Pixel from Google on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, only to see the incredible travel gift card promotion which Google Fi put out yesterday, and seeing as they lost by buying the Black Friday deal.
- [Today Only] Google Fi: Get a Full Gift Card Rebate on Phone Purchase (up to $999), or get a $200 Fi Credit for Signing up with your Own Phone
- Google Fi Scrambles to Change Offer Terms on Free $999 Phone Deal
Reader Austin tells us that Google Fi chat was willing to ‘match’ yesterday’s deal with a Google Fi credit.
If you bought a Fi phone on Black Friday/Cyber Monday, Fi is doing a “price protection” fix to basically match this promo. It’s actually slightly better than the (now expired) GC promo as it’s bill credit instead of gift cards. I was able to do this today, 11/29, after finally getting through to support on chat. YMMV of course.
I had bought the Pixel 3 for $599 w/ $200 bill credit. They (supposedly) manually added a $399 bill credit to my account, making the net cost $0 (~$50 of tax). Bill credits are more valuable to me than gift cards, so I’m pretty happy with this! Assuming it all actually works, of course.
And reader Gurav was able to get the same match as well. It might be rep dependent, not sure that there’s a real official policy of price protection, but certainly can’t hurt to reach out and ask for a Fi credit as a match. The reps probably have a lot of leeway in giving out Fi credit, and may be able to do that match for you.
