$400 more than going direct
Costco adds $400 to the T-Mobile iPhone 18 Pro deal
The iPhone 18 Pro "on us" offer is T-Mobile's, and it is the same wherever you take it. Costco adds a $150 Shop Card and a $250 prepaid Visa on top, and waives the $35 connection charge.
- Terms read at costco.com, not copied from a coupon site
- No end date is published, so none is invented here
- Who
- Anyone with a Costco membership, new to T-Mobile or already with them. Costco states no membership tier for this — any membership reaches it
- Where
- United States only, at Costco warehouses and costco.com
- ID needed
- A Costco membership. T-Mobile runs a credit check for the financing agreement and calls it "qualifying credit", so a thin or absent US credit file can mean a deposit
- To qualify
- Two different things, and they are not the same test. The phone: "trade in an eligible device in any condition on Experience Beyond" — a broken phone counts. The $400: a port-in, which Costco limits to "AT&T, Verizon, or another eligible carrier"
- Trade-in
- Any condition, for the iPhone. Costco's Samsung offer beside it asks for "a working phone" instead, so a cracked or dead handset is worth trading here and not there
- Paid
- $150 Costco Digital Shop Card and a $250 virtual prepaid Visa. Costco prices the pair at "Get $400 in value". The $35 device connection charge T-Mobile bills direct is waived here
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Before you sign up
- The phone is not discounted. T-Mobile pays for it with up to 36 monthly bill credits, so it is free only across three years on the plan. Their terms: cancel the account before the credits finish and "balance on required finance agreement is due", and "bill credits end if you pay off device early".
- Already with T-Mobile? You can still get the phone by trading one in, but not the $400 — Costco's money needs a port-in from another carrier. Nobody in the thread this came from got an answer to that question.
- Neither payment is quick and neither is cash. Costco says "allow 16 weeks" for the Shop Card and "14 weeks after rebate submission" for the Visa — and that Visa is "for use at T-Mobile or Costco", not anywhere that takes a card.
- Sam's Club sells the same T-Mobile offer with a $150 eGift card and $60 a year after. The annual payment needs a Plus membership, which costs $120 a year against $60 for the ordinary one — so the $60 covers the upgrade and little else.
- The phone is a pre-order. Costco's button says "Pre-order now", so the trade-in and the bill credits begin when it ships, not when you place the order.