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Is this negotiable? Can I offer half my personal data for half off?

Oh wait, joke's on me. Google already has 100% of my info and I still paid full price for a Pixel.

I bought a Pixel 6a earlier this year, and traded in my Pixel 3a for $150 USD off the $300 sale price. Other than the fingerprint reader being kind of terrible, it was worth it to get a new battery and OS updates for the next few years for $150 (plus tax and shipping).

If you don't want to spend a lot on a phone, you can do that.

It's true, and my partner got a free phone by switching to Fi. My switch was just ill-timed... I tried out an iPhone on a new carrier for the first time, and hated both so much I paid to get out of the contract and start a new service with another carrier and Android again.

Now I'm much happier. Just much poorer.

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