Xiaomi Redmi 5A[1] was launched in India on Thursday, with a nice introductory pricing offer for the first five million units sold in the country[2]. The smartphone was launched at a price of Rs. 5,999 for the 2GB RAM/ 16GB storage variant, but at launch the price will be Rs. 4,999 for the first five million buyers[3]. The Redmi 5A will go on sale on Flipkart, Mi.com, and Mi Home offline stores in India on December 7 at 12 pm. There's another variant of the smartphone, with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage, which is priced at Rs. 5,999.
The price of the more expensive variant of the Xiaomi[4] Redmi 5A will remain the same for the foreseeable future as the company has not announced any discounts. While this discount offer is quite straightforward, there's also a convoluted mess of an offer around if you want one. In this case, it's Reliance Jio's[5] "additional Rs. 1,000 cashback" offer for the Xiaomi Redmi 5A. Think we're being harsh? Just wait until you try to decipher the fine print involved in this latest "effective price" gimmick[6].
To avail this additional cashback, Redmi 5A users will have to recharge their accounts with the Rs. 199 Jio pack for 12 months. After this, they'll get 10 vouchers of Rs. 100 each and these can only be redeemed one at a time on a recharge of Rs. 309 or above. See our point now? Sure, there's some kind of a discount involved here, but it arrives quite late and requires you to use 10 discount vouchers over 10 months, by which point you probably would've moved to a different smartphone and probably a different carrier too.
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