Apple Lowers Trade-In Values for Macs, iPads, and Apple Watches

[MacRumors]

Apple this week lowered its estimated trade-in values for select Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models in the United States.

Apple has reduced trade-in values for the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, MacBook, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro, Mac mini, iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad, iPad mini, Apple Watch Series 3 through Apple Watch Series 6, Apple Watch SE, and select Samsung and Google smartphones. Apple is also no longer accepting Apple Watch Series 2 trade-ins.

iPhone trade-in values are unchanged.

New trade-in values:

• MacBook Pro: Up to $1,000
• MacBook Air: Up to $400
• MacBook: Up to $220
• iMac Pro: Up to $1,500
• iMac: Up to $850
• Mac Pro: Up to $2,000
• Mac mini: Up to $450
• iPad Pro: Up to $655
• iPad Air: Up to $290
• iPad: Up to $190
• iPad mini: Up to $200
• Apple Watch Series 6: Up to $150
• Apple Watch SE: Up to $120
• Apple Watch Series 5: Up to $120
• Apple Watch Series 4: Up to $85
• Apple Watch Series 3: Up to $50

Previous trade-in values:

• MacBook Pro: Up to $1,350
• MacBook Air: Up to $490
• MacBook: Up to $315
• iMac Pro: Up to $2,135
• iMac: Up to $1,200
• Mac Pro: Up to $2,720
• Mac mini: Up to $600
• iPad Pro: Up to $680
• iPad Air: Up to $335
• iPad: Up to $200
• iPad mini: Up to $205
• Apple Watch Series 6: Up to $170
• Apple Watch SE: Up to $135
• Apple Watch Series 5: Up to $135
• Apple Watch Series 4: Up to $105
• Apple Watch Series 3: Up to $70
• Apple Watch Series 2: Up to $20

The full list of values can be found on Apple's trade-in website.

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[dantracht]

Don’t they do this every year? Still. Rolls eyes.

 

[turbineseaplane]

What a bummer.

The trade-ins were never the best way to get the most money out of older devices, but it was close enough for many folks to be worth it. That value calculation keeps getting worse as they keep dropping the trade-in numbers.

 

[thadoggfather]

Nice, been looking forward to this one.

 

[hovscorpion12]

Looking at the chart, the decrease in price is not as substantial. I figured it be way less

 

[citysnaps]

Life goes on.

 

[TallGuyGT]

I'd figure that they would want people to trade-in or sell back, so they could refurbish and make a profit off that. With the supply chain issues, some of the lead times for new items are months out. I've sold back items to Apple before and gotten a decent price for them. Trade-in works great when buying with Apple Card, if the trade-in value still makes sense.

 

[maxoakland]

Very not cool. This discourages recycling and is just typical latter day apple nickel-and-diming. It’s so annoying how they do that now. They’ll get rid of the stickers soon

 

[Random_Matt]

Apple never gave the best value, always used 3rd party stores.

 

[David1964]

I always sell to a third party anyway and get quite a bit more than what Apple offers.

 

[vipergts2207]

Up to $1000 for an MBP? That’s garbage considering you can configure one for $6k.

 

[fwmireault]

Bummer but trade in value was never even close to resell value anyway

 

[jz0309]

not surprising ...

 

[desslr]

utterlyy normal, they are older devices - value depreciates over time.

 

[contacos]

that’s why I have like 5 iPhones, 2 MBP and an iPad laying around because mentally I can’t get myself to sell them back to Apple considering how much I initially paid for it ?

 

[tothemoonsands]

It's not a surprise, but it's particularly disappointing now given that consumer electronics are holding value very well currently.

 

[efktd]

I mean, I keep all of my devices anyway; inducing boxes and plastic wrap. Collector's items, if you will.

 

[anakin44011]

I looked into trading in my MacBook Pro earlier this year, but I was more disappointed in the process than the trade-in values.

When I trade in a car, I only pay sales tax on the difference. So if I trade in a $20,000 car while buying a $40,000 car, I only pay sales tax on the 20,000.

Apple trade-ins don't work that way. If I trade in a $2000 laptop when buying a $4000 laptop, I'm still paying 7% on the full $4000.

So putting it up on eBay still makes financial sense, even though it is such an awful selling experience -- which begs the question...what the heck happened to eBay? When did they become a third world garage sale while commanding such usurious fees?

 

[jayducharme]

I always sell to a third party anyway and get quite a bit more than what Apple offers.

I do that for computers. But for mobile devices Apple has been pretty competitive for trade-ins, and I could do it right in the store when upgrading to a new device. This list doesn't affect iPhones and iPads, so hopefully there's not a devaluation coming for those.

 

[xxray]

Holy crap, thank god I just traded in my 2018 15” MacBook Pro two weeks ago. The trade-in value when from $730 to $400!!

 

[turbineseaplane]

Holy crap, thank god I just traded in my 2018 15” MacBook Pro two weeks ago. The trade-in value when from $730 to $400!!

Yeah, this is not how to help folks decide to transition to a new Apple Silicon machine

 

[turbineseaplane]

But for mobile devices Apple has been pretty competitive for trade-ins

Absolutely spot on
For iPads, in the times I've looked at it, Apple were often the best trade-in price out there!

 

[mrat93]

I was looking at the old values instead of new — thinking that they were the new values — and then thinking, “wow, this sucks.” And then I saw the new values and holy hell that’s bad.

 

[Denzo]

Apple, being Apple.

 

[Damian83]

So, apple raises prices of its products every year regardless of inflation. Now we have also a huge inflation so not only apple prices rises. While apple lowers prices of trade-in. New apple stuff prices are inversely proportional to used apple stuff. It makes sense ?