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Apple has teamed up with China’s Ant Financial Services Group, which owns the AliPay mobile payments network, and several local banks to offer an interest free loan to customers who are looking to purchase a new iPhone through the company’s local online store. The goal is to sharply lower the monthly samsung galaxy j3 coque dragon ball super sums Chinese customers have coque iphone 4 captain america pas cher to pay for brand new iPhones.
The Alipay service has coque samsung j4 plus minion more than 700 million active users in China.
These latest financing deals are great for cash strapped buyers who can now borrow money coque iphone 5 s cdiscount at no cost to purchase Apple products online and pay for the devices in monthly installments over 3, 6, 12 or 24 months. Holders of credit coque https://www.simonjara.fr/collections/coque-personnalisees-samsung iphone 4 azteque cards issued by three state owned Chinese banks can also obtain 24 month interest free financing to purchase Apple gadgets.
Stella Yifan Xie, writing for The Wall Street Journal:
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The minimum purchase to qualify for the 0 percent loan is 4,000 yuan, or about $595. iPhone 8 costs starts at 5,099 yuan on Apple’s China website, which works out to about $758. The new iPhone XR has a starting price of 6,499 yuan, or about $967 coque iphone 5 rct vs. its US starting price of $750.
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The new financing offers are available through Ant’s Huabei service (Huabei https://www.sushicube.fr/collections/coque-iphone-7-8-pas-cher means ‘just spend’ in Chinese). Huabei has informed customers that it could temporarily increase their credit limits to enable them to purchase Apple products. coque samsung j5 2016 kenzo As many as coque samsung j5 2017 papillon one out of four Chinese aged 30 or younger are using the service, which operates like a virtual credit card.
Apple has a store on Alibaba’s Tmall online marketplace, where Huabei users have been able to get interest https://www.lastage.fr/collections/coque-huawei-pro free financing for one year to purchase iPhones and other Apple products. The current 24 month financing offer ends on March 25, Apple told users of Alipay.
It should be noted that the supposed limited time iPhone XS/XR trade in offer in China was already extended. Originally, it was scheduled coque samsung j5 2016 biere to expire on February coque iphone 4s message 17, but Apple on Valentine’s Day update the website with the new expiration date of March 25. This could coque samsung j5 2016 michael jackson indicate that the iPhone XR/XS trade in deals in other countries coque iphone 4 bretagne might get an extendsion, too.
This is a major initiative on Apple’s part and clearly one of the recent countermeasures that the Cupertino company has employed in order to revive sagging iPhone sales.
The iPhone maker also has similar deals in place elsewhere around the world, including a trade up promo in the United States enticing customers to upgrade to an iPhone XR from $449 or an iPhone XS from $699 if they trade in their iPhone 8 or iPhone 7 Plus…