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loloquwowndueolast Saturday at 5:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you want to trade in an old phone without doing it at the time you purchase a new one, the only way to receive the trade in value is via an Apple gift card.

I was looking forward to getting $160 gift card for my old iPhone 11 but after reading all this I think I’ll just leave it in a drawer.


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dbtclast Saturday at 8:06 PM

If you sell it directly to another human, or even use something like ebay, you'll get more and they'll pay less.

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nullfieldlast Saturday at 6:00 PM

Not so. I just traded in/upgraded (on a Verizon contract, but AT the Apple Store; maybe that affects this… but still paying Apple directly) and they handed me the new phone and had FedEx send a trade-in mailer that I had a while to send back with my trade-in.

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