Damn. My 2014 13" Macbook Pro increased in value. Was originally only supposed to get $300 for it, now getting $510. Just called Apple to get the adjustment. THAT's a solid price change. Makes this Macbook Air M1 even sweeter.
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Apple Adjusts Trade-In Prices for Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac
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I’ll give you one good guess WHY the Mac Pro has a significant increase!
Aluminum - and lots of it! This helps Apple’s closed loop of supply chain materials, and its highly recyclable.
Personally, I’m just waiting till my iPhone 4S shows up with a financial reward for exchanging it
Aluminum - and lots of it! This helps Apple’s closed loop of supply chain materials, and its highly recyclable.
Personally, I’m just waiting till my iPhone 4S shows up with a financial reward for exchanging it
Well, it is not the best deal. The second-hand market is paying at least 20-30% more, and sometimes even 50% more than what Apple is paying. Honestly, I feel that selling the product to someone else and give it a second life is still better than early recycling. I believe that my iPhone 5s is still somewhere serving someone for calls, listening to music and casual apps. Most electronic products have very large useful life. I just sold a 10 years old laptop for 100 EUR to a second-hand store. Great for old people to skype their family and check email/weather/news on the internet.
My understanding, though I'm unable to find the link where I'd read it, is that Phobio and other trade-in companies refurbish and resell serviceable devices rather than simply recycling. Often into secondary markets such as developing nations. So that 5s might get a new battery and a polish, then land in someone's hands overseas who can make good use of it.
Depends on how you define "best deal". Sure (and I said just that), I might have gotten more somewhere else, but I would also have had to put much more effort in. eBay and the like are a PITA for quite a few years already, whereas trading it in with Apple and using the credit towards a Series 6 for my mom for Christmas was an absolutely smooth experience.
I'm also not sure that my Series 3 got scrapped, as it's actually not Apple themselves who get the returned devices, but some partner. And if they would recycle them all regardless of age and condition, why even bother to offer different credit levels based upon condition?
I wanted to take advantage of this but sadly, due to COVID, I can't. My son and I both have Ipad 7s and my son doesn't use his so he wanted to trade in and get a set of noise cancelling headsets. He is Autistic and drowning out the sounds make both our days much better.
So we went to our local Apple store. They had 3 security guards standing out front. They told us you could only go to the door if you were visiting the Apple Bar or picking up an online order. I explained what we were trying to do and I got the same NPC response I would have from an automated telephone system " Go online and order, come back and pick up in an hour or 3".
I would have loved to be able to do that, but Apple's website will not let you trade one model product in for a different one (ie no iPad for Headphones - well no trade in for headphones either way). Only option? Order the shipping container, wait a bit for it to arrive, send it back, wait for a bit more to get your credit than wait for it to be sent to you.
Now before anyone starts screaming about how I just need to suck it up because of COVID - I am a butcher in my local supermarket chain. I deal with people everyday , all day long. I work on their food. I also happen to be in the most at risk group except age (but close) and if its safe for me to work, so can a computer store...
So we went to our local Apple store. They had 3 security guards standing out front. They told us you could only go to the door if you were visiting the Apple Bar or picking up an online order. I explained what we were trying to do and I got the same NPC response I would have from an automated telephone system " Go online and order, come back and pick up in an hour or 3".
I would have loved to be able to do that, but Apple's website will not let you trade one model product in for a different one (ie no iPad for Headphones - well no trade in for headphones either way). Only option? Order the shipping container, wait a bit for it to arrive, send it back, wait for a bit more to get your credit than wait for it to be sent to you.
Now before anyone starts screaming about how I just need to suck it up because of COVID - I am a butcher in my local supermarket chain. I deal with people everyday , all day long. I work on their food. I also happen to be in the most at risk group except age (but close) and if its safe for me to work, so can a computer store...
Not trying to offend you - but I'd say the difference between your job and a computer store is, that food is essential - whether there's a pandemic or not. Also, it's not necessarily that it's safe for you to work, sadly. Minimizing the risk where possible is the only way to go, and that includes not opening stores to the public that aren't strictly essential.
I view it a bit differently. There are the elites who require people like me so they can continue to exists and the serf class like me that has to work or society breaks down.
If I were an Apple store employee (I had been in tech my whole life until last year) I would have been layed off, full unemployment (about $2000 in my state) plus an extra $2400 on top of that with a nice 6 month "vacation".
If it really is about safety, all of the personal shoppers that I see everyday would be shut down as well, except that benefits the elites who are too lazy to walk through a supermarket and buy their own food. If it were really about safety, there would be no Genius Bar and no product pickup. All they did is stop actual shopping, but still left their employees open to getting COVID.
I’m sure none of my devices have any value to Apple. I’m way past the point where they want me to buy the same product from them again, replacing a device that only has any problems because their software quality is spiraling downward... and that won’t get any better with a newer device, so why bother?
As little as my 2016 Macbook Pro is worth, I'm tempted to go the trade-in route just for the ease of use. Dunno if I want to deal with selling it secondhand myself.