If you’re about to buy a new iPhone 4, you should consider selling or trading in your old one.
If you want to sell your old iPhone on eBay or Craigslist, take a look at our guide — How to Sell your iPhone Online — which tells you how to wipe the data and good strategies for getting the best price.
Selling your iPhone online will get you the best price, but will likely involve a degree of hassle, of course. Probably the easiest, hassle-free way to get rid of your iPhone is trading it in with Gazelle, an electronics recycling service.
You can even trade in your iPhone from your iPhone. Here’s how:
Gazelle recently launched a mobile website that allows you to trade in your iPhone from the device. It’s dead simple. Choose your model, answer some questions about its condition, and Gazelle gives you a quote. If you accept the offer, Gazelle sends you a free postage-paid box for your iPhone. Pack it up, pop it in the mail, and in a few days after receipt, Gazelle sends you a check.
I entered my iPhone 3GS (which is in perfect condition), and was quoted $212 — $13 more than the subsidized price of a new iPhone 4.
Here are the steps in detail:
1. Go to iPhone.gazelle.com and click Get Started.
2. Select your model of iPhone.
3. Answer these questions:
– Makes a call successfully?
– Free of water damage?
– Rate the overall condition (Perfect, Good, Fair, Poor)
– Do you have the AC adapter and original cables?
Hit Calculate Offer.
4. Gazelle returns Your Offer. Press Checkout Now.
5. Enter your e-mail address and agree to the terms of service. Press Submit.
6. To get your postage-paid box (and check), enter your name and address. Hit Submit. If your iPhone is as a described, Gazelle sends a check a few days later.
Note: CultofMac.com is a Gazelle affiliate. We get a small payment if you trade in your iPhone using the affiliate links in this post: https://www.gazelle.com/?cultofmac.
