Endless tales...: Maxis Phones Trade In Program

My eyes twinkled at the sight of this very exciting news while I was lazily scrolling through the news feed of my Facebook a few days ago.

Guess what I saw....

Jeng, jeng, jeng...

Trade in Program by Maxis

I mean there's no Telco in Malaysia ever offered such kind of service to the smartphone users to trade in their phone in exchange of a new phone. It's unprecedented! Please kindly correct me if I am wrong.

Of course, I was thrilled to see my 2 year-old iPhone 4S is in the list of phones that can be traded in.
(Other phones in the list are: Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Samsung Galaxy S3 & iPhone4)

All phone plan is subject to 24 months binding contract.

As I am a current iValue1 user, I can trade in my old phone with an additional top up RM849 to get the new iPhone 5S. Isn't it a good bargain to get the latest phone with just RM849, and continuing my current phone plan for just two years?

Excitedly, I brought my old phone to The Garden Maxis center to be traded in. The friendly receptionist briefly checked through the condition of my phone before whisking me to the technician for another round of phone validation. During our conversation, I was also informed that the program is open to anyone with any telco service.

While the technician was helping me to validate my phone, he found out the faulty power button of my phone and did not allow me to trade in the phone. Although I felt let down, the technician helpfully suggest that I can try to get the part fixed and come back for the trade in program again.

From the beginning, I was already suspicious they would allow me to trade in the phone. But to be fair, I admit that my phone is not completely perfect and Maxis is doing their job to have a fair trade- in program.

As I am quite bothered to send my phone to get fix and left without a handy companion, I convinced myself that I should just skip this phone and wait for i6.

BUT may be, just may be, my heart was telling me that it is the phone that I bought because of the special someone whom I used to love....