“Last year, Apple expanded its recycling program to include the Apple Watch,” Andrew O’Hara reports for iDownloadBlog. “Now a year later, Apple is offering Apple Store gift cards for qualifying trade-ins of the wearable.”
“As they do for other tech such as older iPhones, when you trade in your Apple Watch, you can get a gift card to use towards a new device,” O’Hara reports. “Depending on the device, it appears right now you can earn $50-$175 for your old Apple Watch depending on [the model and condition].”
O’Hara reports, “The program is done through a partnership with BrightStar, who Apple has been working with since the program launched in 2013.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s a good service (more for ease-of-use than amount of payments). Our Apple Watch Nike + Series 2 units were “recycled” this way. But, as with our original iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Macs, we’re keeping our original 1st generation Apple Watch units!
So if you have an Apple Watch Edition that cost you $2,000+ you can get a whopping $175 for it. Nice where do I sign up 😛
Gold Guys will give you more than that for the gold. I suspect Apple would too..
Any one that bought one of those was foolish in the first place so the $175 is just par for the course
The “Apple Watch Edition” is not listed for recycling.
More like $17,000