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Anyone got a better deal on buying an iPhone that BA eStore to very.co.uk using BAPP?
Apple Store is £1199 and Very currently have an offer for £1129. The BA eStore is 7:1 so assuming I can pay with BAPP, I make that just shy of 9,600 Avios and at 1p per Avios puts the cost at £1,033.
I can’t see any offers in the app that I could use.
Anyone got a better deal on buying an iPhone that BA eStore to very.co.uk using BAPP?
Apple Store is £1199 and Very currently have an offer for £1129. The BA eStore is 7:1 so assuming I can pay with BAPP, I make that just shy of 9,600 Avios and at 1p per Avios puts the cost at £1,033.
I can’t see any offers in the app that I could use.
I bought a 16 Pro Max 256gb from Very last week and used Quidco for cashback. The purchase tracked on Quidco but excluded VAT so I assume it would be the same on BA eStore too. Also just a heads up, Very seem to do Apple offers every so often – they were running a “10% credit back” offer on Apple products last week if using BNPL so the price will end up at £1016 once I get the credit back (and then 6% cashback on the price excl.VAT on top so should come to £960). I did also see them doing a similar offer in January too.
Very don’t accept amex or payaal so I’ll use my barclaycard avios to pay it off towards the end of the interest free period. Never used “BNPL” before & only used it as I had to for the offer (and it’s interest free if paid off on time).
BA eStore only give 2 Avios for electricals on very but other cashback sites don’t discriminate between product category.
Definitely would not buy from Apple as most retailers are cheaper – Argos sell it for £1149, which then drops to £1110 if you stack a cashback site with Airtime rewards and Nectar. John Lewis and Amazon are at £1129. I think Very is the cheapest at the moment when accounting for the cashback.
A word of caution using BA estore – there have been cases where Avios have been clawed back.
Also I wouldn’t dismiss buying from Apple directly. There have been many instances where the customer service has been far better when bought directly, even if applecare wasn’t purchased. You can search this forum, there are a few threads.
You can also look at buying Apple gift cards at discounted rates, load them as credit on your account and buy the iPhone using the account credit. Again I don’t remember the website for discounted gift cards, but if you search the forums on here, you might find it.
I buy my Apple products from Costco online – for a nominal web membership fee they’re (in my experience) always the cheapest place to buy everything from iPhones to AirPods.
IPhone 12 for £299 from Argos last week was cool
Thanks folks. Looks like some good target prices there. Will buy tomorrow. Prolly not an iPhone 12 though @HampshireHog
Not that I would want to buy from Very as they have dire after sales service, but they do usually do a 10% off Apple products if it is your first order. I think you may have to sign up to their buy now pay later but you can immediately cancel it.
Another negative for BA Shopping is that for things like insurance policies you have to wait 6 months before the avios is paid out but you cannot make a claim for missing avios when they don’t pay out as it has timed-out on the claiming period.
As suggested on here several times, I now check Quidco & TCB first as they are much easier to deal with and cannot claw back payouts on a whim.
Not that I would want to buy from Very as they have dire after sales service, but they do usually do a 10% off Apple products if it is your first order. I think you may have to sign up to their buy now pay later but you can immediately cancel it.
For an iPhone I’d just take it into an Apple Store. I could get 2 years warranty from John Lewis but it’s a phone. It either works or it doesn’t.
I’m in need of an upgrade (the 80mph winds in the Cairngorms are going to cost me!)
As mentioned above, Costco most likely option. Take Amex and much cheaper.
Also worth a look at John Lewis who appear to be price matching Argos at the moment (JL also offering trade in I think)
Also worth a look at John Lewis who appear to be price matching Argos at the moment (JL also offering trade in I think)
JL’s trade in offer looks pretty interesting £75 + value of phone, which in the case of my iPhone SE 2 is £26
I don’t have any at the moment, but Very are a regular on the rebates at LBG, Barclaycard (Visa only) and Virgin Money.
Also worth a look at John Lewis who appear to be price matching Argos at the moment (JL also offering trade in I think)
JL’s trade in offer looks pretty interesting £75 + value of phone, which in the case of my iPhone SE 2 is £26
Certainly in that case as a 2nd gen SE is only worth about 50 quid on eBay less fees and shipping. I’ve found trade in values historically very poor though for newer phones. It never ceases to amaze me what someone will pay a stranger on the Internet for an old phone.
I’ve used Very.co.uk with BA eStore to buy iPhones before when there have been Apple offers – I got the Avios and the discount and paid on Barclaycard Avios+. I applied for a Very account and they only offered me the option to pay in instalments and not BNPL (which they class as different things). They offered my wife BNPL straight away and that was the only way to get the offer that was running at the time.
Also be aware that the postage and packaging charge is not interest free so you’ll be charged interest on that if you don’t pay it off straight away!
I’ve used Very.co.uk with BA eStore to buy iPhones before when there have been Apple offers – I got the Avios and the discount and paid on Barclaycard Avios+. I applied for a Very account and they only offered me the option to pay in instalments and not BNPL (which they class as different things). They offered my wife BNPL straight away and that was the only way to get the offer that was running at the time.
Also be aware that the postage and packaging charge is not interest free so you’ll be charged interest on that if you don’t pay it off straight away!
you can have the parcel delivered to a parcel shop to avoid the delivery fee
I ended up getting a Grade A refurb from EE. Worked out over £100 cheaper, + TCB + closer to BAPP spend target now 🙃
11 Months AppleCare on the device (and think EE cover for 12 months anyways), and the battery had 100% max capacity so worth it for the saving.
A refurb via. EBay was a few quid cheaper when using a voucher but EE would’ve hopefully been easier if any issues discovered on delivery.
Note – EE website has two different routes for finding a refurb. The cheaper refurb was if you looked in Smartphones in the Computing section. If you looked at it under the Mobile Phone section, you only save about £50… weird
Sometimes the deals on a contract can be better value than buying the phone outright. Worth checking on https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cheap-mobile-finder/contracts/apple/
I hate d store. Avios collection reversed 5 and 6 month later, with no detail to identify original transaction.
I would suggest John Lewis for Apple. Price is the same, and the are on e store plus JL provide a 3 year warranty
I hate d store. Avios collection reversed 5 and 6 month later, with no detail to identify original transaction.
I would suggest John Lewis for Apple. Price is the same, and the are on e store plus JL provide a 3 year warranty
In the end, because the Very offer was actually 2:1 on electronics and JL pricematched, that’s what I did. Via the BA eStore of course.
I hate d store. Avios collection reversed 5 and 6 month later, with no detail to identify original transaction.
You’ll be accused of blasphemy towards the estore as some swear the estore never engages in such tactics.
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