Current the s23+ is listed at $750 on the Samsung Shop mobile app. Various trade ins are listed at $200, but if applied yield a total of $600 for the phone… the way they justify this is that because the phone is originally $1000, and it’s being discounted by 25%, they take $200 off of the original price of the phone before applying the discount. I.e. ($1000-$200)*0.75=$600. So your trade in is really only valued at $150 by Samsung.
In my opinion it’s shady to advertise the $750 price (after the discount) but NOT advertise the trade in value after the discount.
Also - it’s irking that the “25%” is not listed anywhere on the s23 product page, or checkout. They never show the calculation. They should not be allowed to advertise the total price value after the discount and then list all discounts with under the inflated, PRE discounted, prices.