Apple Promo Offers Up to $100 in Extra Trade-In Credit Toward New iPhone XR or XS

[dingle19]

"I trade all my phones using MacRumors trade system" - No one ever

 

[Rob_2811]

Agreed completely. I liked the Xr, the Xs Max is not worth the huge price difference to vast number of users. Heck the better battery life in the Xr is the best feature

As long as you leave the throttling on amirite?

 

[Detonation]

$250 is actually more than my iPhone 7 is worth on ebay, swappa, etc after fees and around what I could get locally but without any of the hassle or risk.

 

[Chrjy]

Oh god. Allow me to *educate* you and anyone else that loves to *label* Apple as a recently rooted money grab..

I'm a 30 YEAR customer.. I'm a Creative Marketing Director... I learned my trade from a Mac.

I owned and created a broadcast marketing company 28 years ago... We bought three "Mac Iici's".... The cost per Mac at that time was.... ‎US$6,269... What was the processing power of those? I still have them... They have Motorola 68030 @ 25 MHz... 25 MHz's people. Having these three Mac's -- our first year we produced and sold over a $1million in creative graphics for the music industry and artists.

All this whining and opining about Apple gouging... C'mon. You are late to a party that maybe you don't belong at.

If I had just an iPhone with the computing power it has today in my hands 27 years ago, I'd be a billionaire today.

Yes, the Apple of 20 or 30 years ago has changed.. The computing market is drastically different globally. Apple was a tiny spec in computing then.. Today it has over a HALF A BILLION customer accounts and sold over a billion pieces of hardware. Steve Jobs -- who I am indebted to -- could NOT have managed the growth this company has seen, NO WAY... Creatives -- like him or me are not "producers" of units, visionaries are not manufacturers or distributors. He chose Tim Cook for a reason and Tim Cook has managed the impossible. This company was not geared to stay relevant at the time Steve died. The industry around Apple exploded and Samesong would have crushed Apple's measly unit outputs and foot dragging "I'm so great" mentality...Yes, do I wish those days lasted forever, of course. But the facts say otherwise... Apple isn't a core driven business anymore. They aren't hyper focused on the creatives anymore. And yea, you can "thank" Steve for that because quite frankly the iPhone's own success forever changed Apple, not the other way around.

If *investing* in a Mac today for $1000, $2000 or even $5000 to you is just too much for you to handle or somehow "accept", then.... why are you here in the first place? If you can't use these machines they make and make them easily pay for themselves -- that's on you...stop with this constant drum beat that they should just give us all "good deals"...

For what it's worth -- this is being typed on a 2011 Mac Mini Server....sitting next to a Mac Pro...

What about "value" do many of you not understand???

Blimey...nice CV. Do you always spend time gloating how wonderful you are at making money or did it take 30 years to learn?

 

[Art Mark]

Lmao Tim wouldn’t be in this mess right now if he just sold the new phones at a reasonable price. Sad!

OK...the whole 'Tim' would or wouldn't thing...dumb...like HE picks all the prices for devices in the market...like there's a meeting where they say "Tim, tell us what you'd like to charge." It's just - dumb. Which doesn't make the people who say it appear all that savvy. I also want to know: do you complain about the cost of soybeans, BMW's and new homes as well or do you really think a mobile phone that you don't ned to buy matters more? Don't buy one if it costs too much. Or how's this for an idea, buy one every 2 or three years and save your money. OK. I'm over it...but I don't get the constant complaining about 'Tim' or the complaints about cost.

 

[tardman91]

Can I trade in 2 iPhone 6 phones and get $300? Might be a good deal in that case. Is this available in store or only through the website?

 

[Art Mark]

Blimey...nice CV. Do you always spend time gloating how wonderful you are at making money or did it take 30 years to learn?

Do you send a lot of time being an ... I won't post it. But I do wonder if you can't keep busy with a job or something (don't you have a Bexit mess to worry about? Where the UK will once again lead the world based on it's amazing is) instead of posting comments here.

Can I trade in 2 iPhone 6 phones and get $300? Might be a good deal in that case. Is this available in store or only through the website?

That's the question I was looking to be answered here. Instead I got 4 pages of people complaining that iPhones are too expensive or that Tim is not Steve.

 

[DynaFXD]

Per Apple, our iPhone 6 Plus is worth $200. Per Swappa, I can buy an iPhone 6+ for $185 and the average sale price for the 6 plus (all mem configs) is about $205. Dunno about others, but if I were buying a new phone, that's a pretty good showing by Apple; don't know why anyone would deal with the headaches of a private sale at those numbers.

 

[Chrjy]

Do you send a lot of time being an ... I won't post it. But I do wonder if you can't keep busy with a job or something (don't you have a Bexit mess to worry about? Where the UK will once again lead the world based on it's amazing is) instead of posting comments here.

Personal insults and insulting my country of origin....lol! Not entirely sure what Bexit is though!

 

[vipergts2207]

That's the question I was looking to be answered here. Instead I got 4 pages of people complaining that iPhones are too expensive or that Tim is not Steve.

Is the answer to that question not completely obvious? Or maybe if you trade in eight iPhone 6's they'll give you a new iPhone Xs and $200 cashback..

 

[Cat-toy]

I will hold on to my SE till it is fatally damaged. That is unless the XR shrinks

 

[Rob_2811]

Do you send a lot of time being an ... I won't post it. But I do wonder if you can't keep busy with a job or something (don't you have a Bexit mess to worry about? Where the UK will once again lead the world based on it's amazing is) instead of posting comments here.


That's the question I was looking to be answered here. Instead I got 4 pages of people complaining that iPhones are too expensive or that Tim is not Steve.

You read four pages of that before thinking about clicking the link to Apples site in the original post?

 

[DynaFXD]

Is the answer to that question not completely obvious? Or maybe if you trade in eight iPhone 6's they'll give you a new iPhone Xs and $200 cashback..

Didn’t seem obvious to me, I didn’t see where they let you enter multiple devices, but perhaps it’s buried in there or something you can do as a walk-in customer. And I don’t think it works as you indicate. Per another post in this thread, If you pay in full, They’ll give you the cash equivalent up to the price of your phone and a store gift card for any overage. I don’t think Apple gives out cash for devices, only gift card to their own store. And after the purchase of your new phone, you are just getting the base offer, not the current promotion they are running.

 

[KPandian1]

An iPhone 8 gets only $300!?

 

[BJMRamage]

Doh!

we traded-in my wife's 16gb iPhone 6 3 weeks ago...though we had already purchased new iPhones by then and just got a gift card (that went to cases a week later).

Oh well.

 

[bdore89]

Must have taken a lot of "courage"

 

[klatox]

I sold my iPhone 7 Plus to a guy for $500. No thanks, Apple...

 

[citysnaps]

Same old song and dance here since 2007. Apple's iPhone's are too expensive! Wah...
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I just don't get it.... Apple and carriers keep offering $100 for the trade-in phones... but anybody can just sell their old phone on eBay for minimum double the price... Why do they even bother with something that's never going to work?

And I agree with Chrjy from above... doing this is actually a disrespect towards their customers.

Is it really that difficult to get? That many of Apple's regular customers simply do not want to deal with ebay, and just want a quick transaction for something they no longer need?

 

[sirozha]

Why would someone opt to do this instead of selling it via craigslist or swappa and getting much more money for it? This is akin to selling games to GameStop and getting peanuts when you can cut out the middleman and sell something for what it is actually worth.

How much money can you get for an iPhone 6s Plus?

I sold my locally two months ago for $250.

 

[scjr]

Just curious. To folks who have done a trade-in with Apple, what has been your experience with condition and final value?

Our 6+ is in great condition. Phone works perfectly and screen is in perfect condition and overall condition is great minus a tiny nick in the aluminum. Will that blemish reduce the final trade-in value?

 

[sirozha]

Instead of buying back AAPL, Apple should buy back iPhones and Macs. I think the effect on AAPL would be much greater at the same amounts spent on buybacks.
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Oh god. Allow me to *educate* you and anyone else that loves to *label* Apple as a recently rooted money grab..

I'm a 30 YEAR customer.. I'm a Creative Marketing Director... I learned my trade from a Mac.

I owned and created a broadcast marketing company 28 years ago... We bought three "Mac Iici's".... The cost per Mac at that time was.... ‎US$6,269... What was the processing power of those? I still have them... They have Motorola 68030 @ 25 MHz... 25 MHz's people. Having these three Mac's -- our first year we produced and sold over a $1million in creative graphics for the music industry and artists.

All this whining and opining about Apple gouging... C'mon. You are late to a party that maybe you don't belong at.

If I had just an iPhone with the computing power it has today in my hands 27 years ago, I'd be a billionaire today.

Yes, the Apple of 20 or 30 years ago has changed.. The computing market is drastically different globally. Apple was a tiny spec in computing then.. Today it has over a HALF A BILLION customer accounts and sold over a billion pieces of hardware. Steve Jobs -- who I am indebted to -- could NOT have managed the growth this company has seen, NO WAY... Creatives -- like him or me are not "producers" of units, visionaries are not manufacturers or distributors. He chose Tim Cook for a reason and Tim Cook has managed the impossible. This company was not geared to stay relevant at the time Steve died. The industry around Apple exploded and Samesong would have crushed Apple's measly unit outputs and foot dragging "I'm so great" mentality...Yes, do I wish those days lasted forever, of course. But the facts say otherwise... Apple isn't a core driven business anymore. They aren't hyper focused on the creatives anymore. And yea, you can "thank" Steve for that because quite frankly the iPhone's own success forever changed Apple, not the other way around.

If *investing* in a Mac today for $1000, $2000 or even $5000 to you is just too much for you to handle or somehow "accept", then.... why are you here in the first place? If you can't use these machines they make and make them easily pay for themselves -- that's on you...stop with this constant drum beat that they should just give us all "good deals"...

For what it's worth -- this is being typed on a 2011 Mac Mini Server....sitting next to a Mac Pro...

What about "value" do many of you not understand???

OMG. Who is against Apple charging through the roof for the true Pro equipment? By all means!

People are upset about the prices on non-Pro gear. I don't need a powerhouse to do my work. I just need a moderately powerful quad-core laptop with at least 512 GB of SSD and at least 16 GB of RAM. Such a MacBook Pro costs over $3,000 today. It shouldn't cost more than half of that.

Most of Apple's gross and net income will come from mid-range hardware. The real pro machines don't make that much money for Apple. Hence, no Mac Pro for five years now.

 

[BGPL]

Apple is hurting, badly. More bait to get customers to pay for a very marginal upgrade.

I thought the Apple Mini was priced pretty well for the hardware. Wish the phones were as affordable.

 

[VMMan]

Well the promo worked on me.

I just ordered a new XS max and will mail my iPhone 6 Plus.

When I get home, I’ll send in my wife’s iPhone 7 Plus or her 6 plus for another XS max.

This is the first time I’ve bothered with getting rid of an iPhone. I have a stack of iPhone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 versions.

Thanks papa Cook!

 

[longhorn2004]

So if a bunch of 6 and 6S owners (myself included) jump in on this deal and send their phones to Apple. Doesn't that take alot of 6/6s phones out of circulation which in turn will bump up trade in values from third parties vendors?

I am going to go through ATT Retention and get a XR for $299 pre tax, but I still want the best trade in value for my old 6S Plus.

 

[Glideslope]

No 8+ offer? Oh, wait, that’s right, they currently can’t meet demand for it. You reap what you’ve sown Mr.Cook. Simply throwing money at flaws in your business model time after time after time is not a long term solution toward your structural issues.