Friday, January 28, 2011

Brand new Samsung Galaxy S at 18K ???

You read it !!

You liked your friends' Samsung Galaxy S aka SGS, wow-ed at it's screen and Android features, but couldn't buy it because of it's high cost ? [Yeah, even I agree it's costly] Right now it sells at around 27K INR. Now read this up and get yourself one :)



As you know, in US, contract phones are pretty cheap. This is what we gonna do, buying a contract phone.

Samsung Captivate

Samsung Captivate

Brand new Samsung Galaxy S which is also known as Samsung Captivate in US, can be bought at 21K right shipped to your door 

Specs are same as Galaxy S, only difference is camera and build.
-It doesn't have front camera.
-Design and Build are different, than that of SGS. The design is really good compared to SGS and doesn't look cheap and plastic build.
-More can be read from here - Galaxy S vs Captivate

How to buy :

here is the ebaylink

you can find many deals from top sellers at 400USD.

Shipping :

Use aramex shipping method [explained at the end of post]

Here are few deals :

new ones :
1. 400USD [with some free $60 stuff] - LINK
2. 410USD - LINK
3. 365USD[almost new] - LINK
4. 350USD - LINK
5. 370USD [almost new, with some free goodies] - LINK

used ones :
1. 315USD [it is refurbished piece] - LINK
2. 325USD - LINK
3 . 340USD - LINK
4. 272USD [has small two marks] - LINK
5. 340USD [mint condition, seems good] - LINK
6. 335USD - LINK
7. 330USD - LINK

PS : Knew this from past one month, but I thought you might all be knowing this, so didn't post it. Sorry guys. BTW my friend bought same, it's mint condition and almost new, with damages 16K, isn't that sweet ?

Samsung Vibrant

It is Galaxy S T-Mobile variant. It exactly looks like SGS. So those who 'like' the design of SGS can buy it.



Difference between Captivate and Vibrant is in Design and it's Proccy. More about it.

Please Google about it for more. It has some lag issues [not sure].

Brand new costs around $350.

ebay link : New Ones

old ones : LINK

Don't worry about unlocking and all  unlock available from XDA Dev 

LINK 1
LINK 2

You can always contact sellers for bargain and give your best offer. Price can be reduced $50 :)

Note : Don't forget to ask your seller to mark it as Gift not used. Otherwise it might attract penalty as Aramex won't ship used items from Ebay.com

Aramex Explained

Aramex is just another shipping service, which provides services to ship things from UK and US at lower prices. When you register at Aramex, they will give you an Virtual US or UK address. Remember, some sites won't ship internationally, in such cases Aramex's Virtual Address come into handy.

Steps :

1. Create an account at Aramex [it's free] then create a Shop&Ship account. It costs only $5 after coupon code SNS10VSCH

2. Now they will you provide you virtual address.

3. Update the given address in ebay.com and start shopping !

4. The item first will be reached to Aramex and then they will ship it to you.

5. Customs and Shipping costs : 1.03% and $10 for the first 0.5kg and $8 for each additional 0.5kg. Sometimes they don't even collect custom duties.

Rough estimation : Say Phone - $400, Customs - $4.5, Shipping - $10, Aramex Account - $5. Grand total $420 !!! 


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