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iPhone SE trade-in question
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No. Trade-in credit in the form of gift cards at Apple Stores must be used immediately to purchase an iPhone or iPad.
dave006
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Actually you can but it takes a couple of steps. Order now and then next week on or after March 31 or within 15 days of March 31 go to the Apple store and do a return and repurchase using your iPhone 5S as a trade-in. 😉
You might not be the most popular person in the store but it is an option.
Dave
Apple's iPhone trade-in program says they'll give me 150 for me 5S, but I guess I gotta wait until Thursday and hope they have the SE I want. I assume this will be a better deal than financing the whole thing through Apple or AT&T Next, but IDK yet. I wish they would have made it a bit more clear, since I imagine the majority of people getting the SE are upgrading form 5/S
The hassle of eBay plus the eBay fees, i'd prolly make less than the generous Apple credit of $150.
i don't have the gull to do that.
Yes $150 is quite a generous credit imo. The SE already shows shipping estimates of April, but hopefully store inventory is still good on the 31st.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Agreed, but swappa has less hassle and less fees, I'll be using them when the time comes.
rigormortis
macrumors 68000
nrvna76
macrumors 65816
rigormortis
macrumors 68000
I was really steamed back when the 6s came out and websites like walmart, is it worth more, gazelle , etc. were low balling and giving you a lower price because your phone was "an unlocked AT&T" and not a "verizon" even though it was the same exact phone. they were knocking off $$$ off your phone trade inbecause you said it was a sprint one. and once sprint is unlocked its the same damn phone as everyone else
since those days, they mostly wised up and now they offer a $20 +/- difference between the different flavors of the 6
back when the iPhone 6s came out, the only company that deals with trade ins that was giving you the same exact price of any phone, regardless of carrier was apple itself
it looks to me that the 5s is CDMA+GSM and therefor once you unlock AT&T it becomes a verizon phone.
it's really moot to argue if AT&T gives you the unlock for free
here are my " is it worth more " quotes from 9/21/15
unlocked 481
tmo 376
verizon 476
AT&T 456
other carrier 256
sprint 331
once the phone was unlocked on the particular day it was worth $481 regardless of carrier
these are the quotes from gazelle
Gazelle’s price quotes as of 9/4/15
iphone 6 plus 128 gb , T-mobile UNLOCKED
AT&T $346 Sprint $361 T-mobile $383 Verizon $476 Unlocked $365
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