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Vodafone offering cashback of Rs 1,500 on selected Samsung smartphones; you'll need to have an M-Pesa account

The Vodafone cashback will only be debited into the e-wallet M-Pesa and customers need to have an account on the online wallet to receive the money.

Tech2 News Staff|Jan 04, 2018, 15:26:43 IST

Vodafone is offering a cashback of Rs 1,500 on the purchase of selected Samsung mobile phones. The offer is valid for both prepaid and postpaid users.[caption id="attachment_4209517" align="alignleft" width="380"]

Representational image. Reuters.[/caption]To avail the offer, prepaid users need to recharge with Rs 198 data pack for 24 months. The Rs 198 data pack offers unlimited calls and 1 GB of data per day for one month. Vodafone postpaid users will have to recharge with any one of the Red Pack options to get the cashback under the offer.Vodafone will credit the cashback of Rs 600 after 12 months and rest Rs 900 after 24 months, which makes a total of Rs 1,500. The cashback will only be debited into the e-wallet M-Pesa and customers need to have an account on the online wallet to receive money.The smartphones under offer are the Samsung Galaxy J2 Pro, Galaxy J7 Nxt, and Galaxy J7 Max.Samsung Galaxy J2 Pro will be offered at Rs 6,990 instead of the market price of Rs 8,490.Similarly, Galaxy J7 Nxt and Galaxy J7 Max which are priced at Rs 10,490 and Rs 16,900 will be offered at Rs 8,990 and Rs 15,400 respectively.

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