Google to refund some pre-price drop Nexus 7 buyers
Two-week window opened
Google, like Asus, will compensate folk who purchased a Nexus 7 just before it reduced the tablet's price, on 29 October.
Unfortunately, the price protection promise only applies to owners who splashed out on or after 14 October, as Google's offer only covers the 15 days before a price cut.
Only the 16GB version is covered, so anyone (unrealistically) hoping to get an 8GB Nexus upgraded will be out of luck too.
Still, it offers some reparation for Google Play shoppers envious of the £25 consolation voucher offered by Asus to its own Nexus 7 customers last week.
Tablet fans who acquired a Nexus 7 from Google Play during the said 15-day timeframe, can follow the link on Google's Price Protection support page for details of how to request refunds. ®
COMMENTS
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No but they could give us all an extra 32gb of cloud storage to make up. Seems a cheap and easy way to appease the early adopters. Better than nowt.
That said, I'm well chuffed with my nexus 7 and 16gb. Well worth the 199 I paid.
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Are you suggesting they send you some ram sticks, a soldering kit, and some torx screw drivers in the post?
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Citation needed.
I bought my 16gb version on release day and knew what I was getting into. Pay n for x. It seemed good enough at the time that I plunked down the money and I got what I asked for.
I'm an adult and I (try to) make informed decisions, not some whiny entitled baby, though.
As things stand I got the £15 Play store credit AND I get the £25 Asus voucher.
If someone didn't want a 16gb Nexus 7 they shouldn't have bought one and should have waited for something better to get with their money.
Both the play credit, the Asus voucher and the Google 15 day reimbursement are more than generous for a device that's already great value at the price it was offered for sale at originally.
Why don't people instead?
Because three months of usage, £15's worth of free apps to use on a number of devices then a bonus £25 refund and [b]then[/b] buy a new 3G 32GB version when it comes out and [i]then[/i] offload the old one on to her indoors for an inexpensive Yuletide gift.
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I seem to remember buying an upgrade kit for my spectrum in 83 (16-48k) which was pretty much that...
