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Apple Raises Trade-In Values for iPhone, Mac, and More

This is good, always helps to be able to keep your cord and block, but honestly Apple giving me $190 more doesn't make up for the fact that Best Buy is saving me $500 off the same MBP! Even the 3% for buying with Apple Card doesn't offset this. I usually prefer to buy from Apple but not making sense right now!
PS- Not holding out for the MBP Ultra as we all know the 1st gen will have stale chips and have some new product quirks in a gen 1 device... Who's with me?
 
Glad to see this. I'm debating upgrading from my 13Pro now or waiting for the 18 (and related sticker shock). Now i just have to compare Apple and their 3% card benefit vs T-Mo and their criminal neglect of Simple Choice plan users.
 
What is this for? Apple is telling, bring your older Mac mini (that we will destroy) and buy a Mac mini M4 (2024; almost two-years-old) when they cannot even fulfill such M4 demand in good time with huge delivery delays. And the Mac mini M5 should be around the corner. It does not make sense.
 
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I'm guessing that the increase in the trade-in values of 16 and 17 pro models will be much less than the increase in the prices of the 18 Pro and Pro Max relative to the 17 Pro and Pro Max.
 
2024 MacBook Air (M4 16/512) has a $745 trade-in value. I paid slightly more than $900 for it. RAMaggedon cuts both ways.
 
Price increases will be greater than trade-in value increases. Still a clean way to dispose of your phone, albeit some other venues may yield more money. Still open to upgrading from 15+, but would like to wait to see 18 and Air2.
 
I think the increases in the iPhone trade-in value is very telling of the upcoming iPhone 18 price increases. iPhone trade-in values of the previous year models are usually roughly 50% of its original price. Since the trade-in value of the various iPhone 16 models went up around $25, I expect the price increase for the iPhone 18 models to be roughly double that...$50.
 
mlayer said:
2024 MacBook Air (M4 16/512) has a $745 trade-in value. I paid slightly more than $900 for it. RAMaggedon cuts both ways.
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They want to give me approx 1050 USD (CHF 950.—) for a 96GB RAM 2TB M4 Max MacStudio. Not that I want to trade it in; I‘m very happy with that machine. It‘s however not the kind of money that would tempt me… 🤪

H.
 
sk1ski1 said:
I think the increases in the iPhone trade-in value is very telling of the upcoming iPhone 18 price increases. iPhone trade-in values of the previous year models are usually roughly 50% of its original price. Since the trade-in value of the various iPhone 16 models went up around $25, I expect the price increase for the iPhone 18 models to be roughly double that...$50.
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Even Apple TV got a $100 increase. And that’s a subsidized box with 4GB RAM and 128GB storage.

Expect iPhone to get at least $150 increase.

Trade-in values are the minimum to encourage consumers to avoid selling to the secondary market rather than market value.
 
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