Walmart, the giant US retailer, often negotiates exclusive price cuts on products that smaller retailers can’t match. Just like last year, it has set its sights on the all new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
According to a report published tonight by CNET, Walmart is set to trim $20 off both of Apple’s new super sized iPhones. That drops the iPhone 6 down to $179 and the iPhone 6 Plus down to $279. Both prices require a two-year commitment with AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint. Also, beginning on Friday, September 12th, Walmart will begin accepting preorders for the iPhone 6. Anyone who preorders through Walmart will also get a free $15 e-gift card. Sam’s Club members will be able to save an additional $2 on both models, which brings their total discount down to $22.
Based on all the information we’ve seen thus far, these price drops only apply to the 16GB iPhone 6 models and only the 4.7-inch variant will be available for preorder. As of right now, the only other noteworthy iPhone 6 deal that we’ve seen is from Radio Shack who is offering a free $50 iTunes gift card with purchases through September 27th.
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Walmart’s deal is going to be the best by far but you might not get your phone on launch day. The good: Walmart in CA (possibly all of US as well) only taxes you on their sale price of the phone, not the full retail price. We just got two of the 5s there last Sunday and the guy told us Walmart takes care of the tax. Not sure what he meant by that but it’s ok because we only paid $6 and change in tax! Sure it took an hour to upgrade two phones but it was so worth it! The bad: unless Walmart is getting a huge shipment of the 6 on launch day, the preorder won’t mean much. We did the preorder for the 5 two years ago and no stores near me had any inventory for the first two weeks. I was able to get my preorder deposits of $50 back and we ended up getting our phones at Apple stores in San Francisco.