{"id":656126,"date":"2013-05-01T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobilemoo.com\/?p=28787"},"modified":"2013-05-01T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:25:07","slug":"trade-in-your-old-smartphone-for-100-in-att-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656126","title":{"rendered":"Trade In Your Old Smartphone for $100 in AT&T Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

How many inactive smartphones do you have sitting around? Chances are the number continues to grow with each new phone you buy. At first having the extra smartphone makes sense. It acts as an insurance plan in case your new one breaks. But when you have three, four, five old smartphones lying around? You should probably start getting rid of them.<\/p>\n

Consumers won’t find many easy options for recycling their old phones, which exacerbates the problem. You could find a gadget bin, where you can dump old electronics, but that old smartphone has to hold some value, right? And so we hold onto them, hoping, but not searching, for a solution. <\/p>\n

Even more problematically, semi-well-known gadget trade-in companies, such as Gazelle.com<\/a>, are taking in a smaller and smaller array of products. Have a Samsung Galaxy S II on Verizon? It’s the second best-selling Android smartphone of all time, and it’s on the nation’s most popular carrier. Yet you won’t get a dime for it from Gazelle. And so it’s even more likely to sit in a drawer.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the best way to handle gadget recycling is for carriers themselves to offer trade-in programs. You walk into the store with your old phone, you pick out a new one, and you get a trade-in credit applied to the sale. Sounds simple, but few carriers do this. Verizon has in the past, but the values have been absolutely horrible. I tried to trade in a 2010 model BlackBerry when I bought an iPhone in 2011, and they offered me $20 for it. <\/p>\n

\"ATTTrade\"<\/p>\n

In another consumer-friendly move, AT&T has started a smartphone trade-in program<\/a> that offers customers a real incentive: $100 towards the purchase of a new smartphone, service, or accessories. So not only do customers realize actual value for their old phones, but they can apply it right away to the purchase of something new. <\/p>\n

Trading in a newer smartphone that might be of greater value than $100? AT&T will take that into account. So if you want to trade in your Galaxy S3 for something new, you’ll get more than that $100 credit. (Gazelle offered me $165 for my S3, so I imagine AT&T would be willing to offer more as a trade-in.) <\/p>\n

There are conditions to this offer, of course — the press release contains more asterisks than perhaps any other I’ve ever read. It does cover phones up to three years old, so you can certainly trade in a phone from your last contract. That’s actually huge; with Verizon’s trade-in program you rarely get even close to $100 for a two-year-old phone, never mind a three-year-old one. Other than that, you’re pretty much free to trade in what’s eligible and get that credit towards your new phone.<\/p>\n

Current AT&T customers can go to the trade-in website<\/a> to see if their devices are worth more than $100. AT&T will accept non-AT&T phones, but you’ll have to go to a company owned retailer to make the trade. <\/p>\n

Via Phone Scoop<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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