Samsung S26 Series

Have you made a claim on a grey market phone? I know they'll happily take your money to insure your phone.

As long as the company selling it to you is VAT registered, you should be ok, but I know that would be an exclusion if they're not.

The link to the Revenue website might clear up the VAT issue

https://www.revenue.ie/en/vat/vat-records-invoices-credit-notes/invoices/who-must-issue-vat-invoice.aspx

The shop is VAT registered. Your insurance policy can't demand that you have a VAT receipt. All they can demand is that the shop is VAT registered

If you read the law on VAT on Revenues website then you will see that a VAT registered business doesn't have to issue you with a VAT receipt unless you are an accountable person.

I deal with VAT all day every day. I don't expect you to be as knowledgeable about it as me if you don't deal with it but Revenue make the requirements very clear on their website. I'm not asking you to take my word for it but I would expect you take Revenue website as factual 🤷

You aren't listening to me. These ARE VAT registered shops. They will give you a VAT receipt for these phones BUT they will have to change you an extra 23% VAT for you to get a VAT receipt.

Your insurance company can demand a VAT registered shop & these shops are all VAT registered. This meets the requirements of your insurance policy. Your insurance company can't demand a VAT receipt because the store doesn't have to give you a VAT receipt unless you are an accountable person.

Using these stores does not effect your insurance policy in any way

I've explained it to you several times. I honestly don't think it's that difficult to understand

These sellers online are shops. They aren't allowed to advertise their shops because the ads costs much more for businesses than private sellers. They put up photos of several phones and have their business card visible on the photo. You can literally walk into the store and & buy the phone.

There is a hint in the ad. "Comes with store receipt". This means it's a store.

I suggest you look at Adverts & DoneDeal and read the ads before you continue commenting. These are all stores that you can walk into and buy the phone. Kilbarrack shopping center has 2 of these stores. Raheny Shopping center has one Donnamede shopping has 3 of these stores. I'm sure Clare Hall has a few too. These are all bricks and mortar VAT registered that advises online

You are the only poster that is talking about a private seller. Every one else is posting about Grey market phones with shop receipt. Go back and have a read at all the other posts.

Buying from a private seller without a store receipt is a terrible idea. No warranty without the store receipt. Phone might not be new, could be refurbished or even stolen.

I was onto three chat and he couldn't confirm if they are locked and I don't have it yet as it's out of stock. Chat said it can be unlocked 14 days after purchase. My delivery date is 23rd march and I am going outside of Europe on 30th but he said that's okay it can be unlocked because I bought it on 9th March assuming that it is locked.

Worse case scenario, your local phone repair shop can unlock it in minutes for €15 or €20 euro. Available free is better but it's an option in case you are stuck

Finally got rid of my S25 Ultra, so cost of upgrade this year worked out to about €180, albeit going from 512GB to 256GB. Initially expected it to be up around €400-500, so happy enough with the deal in the end.

€750. A bit more hassle than trade in, but probably still worth it.

Trade in process was very smooth this year. Sent my phone trade in last Thursday 12th March. Got the email on Monday 16th to say it was received, and another today to say the trade in was completed.

Three are shocking my pre-order has been delayed again until 17th of April!!!!

Edit: Went into store and got the black version straight away. Cancelled the online order.

Can confirm that my vodafone bill pay S22 didn't need unlocking when I switched to 3 and the S26 ultra (phone and sim arrived before the otterbox so new sim went in the old phone initially).

I've traded in multiple phones to Samsung over the years and have never had any issue with them but i always take a video of the phone working before i post it back to them. I've read a lot of stuff online about people allegedly sending perfect phones and the centre stating they are have broken screens etc when they arrive even when boxed.

Actually for the S26U order i sent back my S23U and Buds 3 pro in the one package with both barcodes and docs and i received an email saying the received the buds but not the phone yet i've emailed them saying both were in the one package which was delivered last week.

Well if I had noticed it I would have , I just think its the over the cost price to pay for them to fix it that's hard to take .

Anybody have an inkling as to when we might see some deals popping up? 512gb version seems to be around 1200 for the grey market option, but historically how long after release before a bargain can be snagged?