Credit to @farque
Starting 17/10 - 31/10
$69 plan (same terms as flip 4)
= Pixel 7 Pro 128GB
+ $150 HN Gift Card
Better than the JB deal if you have a $0 valued/no device to trade in or don’t want the additional Google accessories
If terminating the plan immediately, your Pixel 7 Pro essentially costs (($69 x 24)/2) + $69 (prorated) = $828-$897 and on top of that you get a bonus $150 HN gift card
And then find Scu*tree and Fastcashbook Marketplace flooded with alikes…
So you neg the deal because you can't resell it for a high price? This deal is too well known and everyone else is doing it? lmao
Good luck re-selling it. I guess we all love this new gig economy!
What is the process for terminating the plan immediately?
Optus has your details then
Why not
Cancelled plan should be liable for the whole lot
Lol amount of family and friends getting scammed from Optus leaks. If when they try to leave optus for telstra its taking hours if not days to even get any traction. Optus can get faaaaaakd
But what about some already getting scammed calls before the Optus leaks? I think if you have a phone number registered to your name, it's bound to happen
Mate, have to replace passport, drivers license, medicare. OPTUS CAN GET FAKkKKKKD mate. They won't even do me the courtesy of writing me an email saying yes you are this person, your details were indeed leaked, these are grounds for replacements. They told me to go to the police (a report/case is required for the replacement of the above identity numbers) with the bloody text message they sent over the weekend.
The silence from Optus is deadening. I can't get a straight answer from them either.
They must be getting ready for the fallout from the "professional hacking".
SOPHISTICATED CYBER ATTACK
aka accessing a public api
Yeah so when you tell them i want to cancel (after 2 hours on hold) you wait another 1 hour for Sales who try to give you credit or some excuse and then pass to a manager then back to sales then accounts. They are trying anything at the moment. Theres a reason you hardly see Optus vans on the road. They spent jack all upgrading their network, lets bankrupt these clowns for thats what they are
Just in case you need warranty, expect to be an Optus prime customer, they will thank you for screwing the.
@payless69: I think you are missing a few words from your previous comment.
Previous comment as in 3 lines up. Just in case you can't find it since you spammed 15 useless comments in the last 40 mins.
iinet staff member literally just asked me to send them a picture of myself holding up 100 points of ID.
They had both a rooster cackling and a dog barking in the background.
I'll stick with my current telco thanks very much.
So what , Vodafone have asked the same . And what's a person's whereabouts , got to do with job performance.
Pick on valid points , not a slur campaign
I should have mentioned that I was supposed to send it to their email address (the staff member).
I didn't trust a guy with a rooster in his office with my passport information.
Optus had much better security and look what happened there.
But hey, I'm kinda untrusting like that.
@[Deactivated]: The email address is the real kicker here. Work likes me to do that also, just not great to have all my ID sittting in someone's work inbox for the next 10 years
Rooster and Dogs aren't that uncommon a species of pet animals, are they? Except perhaps, Antarctica?
Then again, Gerry is a higher kind of "God"! Blessed are the believers.
Our Messiah Gerry
Optus getting more desperate, i think ill hold still
Let's wait for Family and Friends deal for 48 Month plans!
Does this plan include international calling?
No no no. This is Optus we're talking about. International will call you.
Hello this is ashkan from microsoft, your microsoft has virus
He's Iranian. Nice.
My favourite is the caller's from the department of windows. Your window are open for virus. I help close window virus.
Congratulations! You have won $1 million bitcoin dollars.
No, international talk and text is $10p/m extra
How the hell is 25x $69 only $897
/2
You missed the divide by 2 but
(($69 x 24)/2) + $69= $897
Can't confirm it's correct but that's what OP said
You only need to pay the ETC which is half of the total plan cost
But the street value is dropping even faster with every forum user doing it!
Sorry. My bad
Basically $750 including GC?
Can you cancel this straight away?
$750 I'm pretty keen!
So are about 1000 spam callers to thank you!
How can they call you if the plan is cancelled?
India, Pakistan and former East Pakistan, where the bots try every number till they spoofed yours!
@CodeXD: Talking about Optus, I had been a customer on and off, used also MVN's so the fallout is on.
Btw I had around 20 small pc product warranties declined from our beloved god. Franchise owner lives near a OFT senior officer and cash is so easy folded!
Optus. Hah.
What a reliable and trustworthy combination, HN and Optus!
Two of Australia’s dodgiest coming together.
Harvey Norman got together with the used car salesman, Joe Hockey to introduce tax on imported small goods as when the aud was near parity with USD, they were outcompeted in a haleartbeat
Two of Australia’s biggest douchebags coming together to screw you!
Is anywhere going to do a trade in deal for the pixel 6 pro?
Telstra and JB Hifi would right?
I believe JB also has a $300 bonus on top of the trade in value of $450 a defect free Pixel 6pro from an email I saw earlier (plus the bundle).
Yep $750 trade for p6p 128gb. Then you get nest, Chromecast and $100 JB voucher as well.
Pixel 7 pro from google : 1299 - less 300 google credit = 999
This deal : 69*24 - 150 HN GC = 1506
So 507$ for 24 month or 21.124$ p/m for 80 gb
Slightly incorrect :)
People jump on these Optus HN deals because you only need to pay half of the total contract for the phone itself, so it’s only $828 plus your one month usage prorated
Similar to the Samsung Galaxy S22 that was recently posted on here
Yeah, id take this for 24 months if it was jbhifi/telstra deal. Need to upgrade my pixel 3xl really bad.
Can you explain how this work?
@BargainsGrabber: Can I simply initiate port-out to terminate, or do I have to talk with Optus people online to explicitly request termination? Sorry, haven't done this before.
Google credit worthless
69x24=1656/2=828
If its the same as the s22 that's what it will be.
Tensor G2: 2x Cortex-X1, 2x A76, 4x A55 & Samsung 4nm LPE.
Is it really from late 2022?
Same GPU as the Mediatek Dimensity 9000+, plus all the latest Google camera tech.
I do believe Google has better camera tech. But MTK is made by TSMC N4, better performance with much lower power consumption and heat than Samsung's fake 4nm LPE. Although they both have the same GPU specifications, there is no way Pixel can do better. The differences between 8G1 and 8G1+ have already proved how bad Samsung is.
Mediatek Dimensity 9000+ is about 2 gens ahead and equivalent to a Snapdragon 8+ Gen1. They are not comparable.
I said the GPU not the CPU cores.
What you're forgetting is they're priced accordingly. They're the lower end of the flagship space. Using them, you'd never know they're using slower hardware anyway.
It’s a slower CPU than my iPhone 12 mini which was $750-$800 the A14 Bionic. Google is putting money into the AI part. And not so much thought into raw power.
The phones raw power will be sufficient for 95% of users and the tasks they want to do on it.
@Trishool: Most likely yes. Just putting into perspective that for google pro device they’re not really putting much effort into their CPU design for pure maximum performance.
For that Apple is the leader. Google has focused on software and AI. But apparently the pixel 7 has bugs like the 6 did.
It’s last years Qualcomm in performance.
Here’s a good look at it. The A14-A16 chips are super good.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-tensor-g2-benchmark-…
Just putting into perspective that for google pro device they’re not really putting much effort into their CPU design for pure maximum performance.
Sure but you gotta remember it's their second crack at this and it's Google, they're always wobbly when it comes to hardware and it takes them a few solid attempts at something before they find their side with it and manage to optimise it. This is my first pixel, and although technical upgrades were minimal, I felt the overall package delivered was much stronger this year from Google than last year's devices. Plus that 10% off, and $300 credit back was a great incentive for me to bite at the 512GB model.
@Trishool: Google isn’t wobbly at hardware. They make hardware all the time. Like their own servers.
They just don’t care about the pixel being the fastest. Because it’s the slowest CPU design of the main competition. It’s also technically just Samsungs last years CPU work. It’s a two year old design.
The CPU isn’t their design. It’s Samsungs. And Samsung has not been able to beat Apple in raw performance year on year for a long time.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/youtube-is-now-build…
Google isn’t wobbly at hardware. They make hardware all the time. Like their own servers.
I meant mobile phones specifically. Their hardware has always been hit and miss, either with performance or quality or both. I know they make their own hardware, such as servers and other things, in fact the Tensor chip (or a version of it) has been running in their servers before it came to the Pixel line. But making a personal device perform is different to servers, as their scope and purpose are different. It doesnt help that they chose Samsungs underperforming and outdated Exynos CPU to use in their phones. I really wish they went their own way. Must be something about trying to keep Samsung happy as a key Android partner, or that Samsung had a lot of these aged CPU's left over and Google were able to purchase them for cheap.
And Samsung has not been able to beat Apple in raw performance year on year for a long time.
Ultimately I don't think this matters to most people. It looks great in a slide show, but its only one aspect of a phone. Some videos have shown the Fold4 has been able to match performance of the iPhone, but again, its not real world scenarios that are being demonstrated in those videos. I've been using a Nexus 6P up until March this year, still running Android 8.0 with 3GB RAM, and I could play a majority of games, take great pics and video, and do everything else I wanted to do. After the 6P I moved to the Samsung Galaxy S9+ and have been using that for the last 6 months. Again not one issue, app crash or anything else performance wise that made me hate it (especially after getting rid of all the bloatware and installing Nova Launcher on it). Now moving to the P7Pro, I think it will be more than sufficient for me and most others, with all its current features and future feature drops to keep buyers happy for the next 3-5 years. Given the price difference between the top tier iPhone and P7Pro, I think the current performance on the Pixel will be fine, and will probably be improved further over the next few software updates.
Kinda weird they would benchmark the latest from Qualcomm but not the A15 or A16. As the A16 from Apple is the most expensive chip they’ve made yet. It’s also the fastest and most efficient. Hmm
its Samsung 5nm LPE not 4nm.
my bad, I checked it is 5nm. Some old rumors said that it might use 4nm LPE. It makes G2 even worse.
Yeah google is just being lazy in the cpu choice. Choosing last years or even 2 year ago tech.
I got scammed by someone using my details today. F$&k Optus
How?
I can't see it being too difficult… If you have name, dob and address lots of doors open up, then take the name do a bit of social media stalking find some other details like mothers name or who their grandparent is and u got the maiden name… Call a bunch of banks (not like we have many in Aus) see if you can score a hit and change details and get control of the accounts… Unless banks are being more diligent this is likely to get worse..
Yeah but how?
How much did you lose?
Damn. What happened?
Optus haven't even released the pixel 7. Must be pretty preoccupied with something.
is there any deals on the 512 gb model?
Seems only Google and Telstra have the 512GB model. I bought directly from them with a 10% off discount code they gave me, plus a $300 credit, and 10% credit. Plus flying out next week so will claim on TRS for another 10% back.
Plus flying out next week so will claim on TRS for another 10% back.
Doesn't using the "Tourist" Refund Scheme make you feel dodgy? I thought about it but it didn't sit right.
Nah mate, if it's there as an option and I'm following the rules then it's all good, I'm not cheating the system in anyway.
@Trishool: You kind of are though, you're supposed to declare the value of items you're returning to the country with and the TRS is designed for visitors.
@Techie4066: He def cheating the system. He probably a guy that tests the grapes in the supermarket too.
@Techie4066: I'm kinda not though, because I'm legally obliged to bring it back and declare it so it's all good. It's a legit scheme so not sure why you think I'm doing a dodgy. I like saving money but don't rort the system for it.
Immediate Termination Vibe Check ;)