{"id":374,"date":"2026-09-02T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texttoolz.com\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:17:09","slug":"is-my-old-tablet-worth-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texttoolz.com\/blog\/is-my-old-tablet-worth-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair, Sell or Keep? How to Tell What Your Old Tablet Is Actually Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The thing that decides whether your old tablet is worth keeping is not its age, its condition or the crack in the corner. It is whether the manufacturer still sends it security updates. Not one of the nine commercial pages ranking for this question mentions that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a reason for the omission, and it is structural rather than sinister. Of the twelve results returned for this search, seven are buyback services or comparison sites that earn when you sell, and one is a repair shop that earns when you repair. Each of the three possible answers to your question is being advocated by somebody who profits from it. Exactly one result, a BGR article, has no financial interest in the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>TextToolz sells no tablets, buys no tablets, repairs nothing and takes no referral fee from any service named on this page. That is not a claim to better judgement. It is simply the reason this page can tell you to keep the device, which is an answer no buyback company can afford to give.<\/p>\n<h2>Start with one question nobody selling you anything will ask<\/h2>\n<p>Does your tablet still receive security updates? That is the question, and it is worth asking before you look at the screen, before you check the model, and certainly before you accept a quote from anybody.<\/p>\n<p>That single question separates a working computer from a browser you should not sign into anything with. A tablet still inside its support window can open your banking app, hold your email and store a password manager, and the risk is ordinary. A tablet past its cutoff is receiving no patches for newly discovered flaws, and every month that passes widens the gap between the software on it and the software that is safe.<\/p>\n<p>Two tablets identical in age, condition and screen quality can sit on opposite sides of that line, because support windows differ by manufacturer and by model tier. A premium tablet from five years ago may still be supported. A budget model from three years ago may not be. Judging by how the device looks tells you nothing about which case you are in.<\/p>\n<p>This is the most useful fact about an old tablet and it appears on none of the commercial pages competing for this query. They discuss model, storage, condition, age, network status and seasonal demand. That list is accurate and it stops one item short of the one that matters.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is easy to see once you look at who is writing. For a company that buys used tablets, &#8220;yours is still supported, keep using it&#8221; is a lost purchase. For a repair shop, &#8220;yours is past support, stop spending money on it&#8221; is a lost repair. Neither is lying. They are each answering a slightly different question from the one you asked.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"ttz-fig\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/texttoolz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ttz-fig-tablet-cutoff.png\" alt=\"Three cards contrasting a tablet still receiving security updates with one past its cutoff, and noting the distinction appears on no commercial result\" width=\"1600\" height=\"826\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\"><figcaption>The factor that decides whether an old tablet is still a computer, absent from every commercial result.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>How to tell how old your tablet actually is<\/h2>\n<p>You need two facts: which model you have, and whether it is still supported. Both take about a minute.<\/p>\n<p>On an iPad, open Settings, then General, then About, and read the Model Name. On an Android tablet the same information sits under Settings, then About tablet, where you will find the model number and the Android version. If the device will not power on, the model number is usually printed in very small type on the back of the case, or etched near the connector.<\/p>\n<p>With the model name in hand, check the manufacturer&#8217;s own support pages for the software support window. Apple publishes which iPadOS version each iPad supports. Samsung publishes the number of years of security updates a Galaxy Tab receives from launch, and Google does the same for its tablets. What you are looking for is not the newest feature release but the security patch status, which is the part that matters for safety.<\/p>\n<p>The answer decides which of the next sections applies to you. Still supported and working: the question is whether you want the money more than the device. Still supported but broken: the repair arithmetic below is worth running. Past support: the decision has largely been made for you, and it is between selling now while it still has resale value, repurposing it for something that needs no account, or recycling it.<\/p>\n<h2>What your tablet is worth, and what actually moves that number<\/h2>\n<p>Mazuma Mobile publishes the fullest breakdown of resale value factors found anywhere on this search, and it is worth crediting because it is genuinely complete within its scope.<\/p>\n<p>Model is the largest factor: premium ranges such as the iPad and the Galaxy Tab retain value because demand for them persists, while lesser-known models fetch less and take real effort to sell at all. Storage size raises the price, and how much of that storage you personally used is irrelevant since everything is wiped. Condition is assessed in three tiers that every quote form uses: Excellent for minimal signs of use, Good for light scratches and small wear, and Faulty for cracked screens, battery problems, charging faults or noticeable damage.<\/p>\n<p>Age matters less for tablets than for phones, which Mazuma notes hold value for a shorter time, though everything depreciates as newer models arrive. Network status is the factor most people forget: a cellular model, particularly an unlocked one, is worth more than the Wi-Fi-only version of the same tablet. And demand moves seasonally, dipping when a new model launches and rising before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>You will notice this page quotes no dollar figures. That is deliberate. Trade-in values move week to week and drop sharply when a manufacturer announces a new model, so a number published in August is misleading by October. Every figure you find in a comparison article carries that problem whether or not the article admits it. Get a live quote instead, and get three of them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"ttz-fig\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/texttoolz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ttz-fig-tablet-whosells.png\" alt=\"Four figures showing nine of twelve results selling the answer they recommend, no commercial page mentioning the support cutoff, none doing the arithmetic, and one issuing a warning\" width=\"1600\" height=\"794\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\"><figcaption>Who profits from each of the three possible answers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The arithmetic that actually answers repair or replace<\/h2>\n<p>Three numbers decide this, and no page on this search holds all three, because each publisher only sells one of the three transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The first is what the repair costs, quoted for your specific fault on your specific model. The second is what the device is worth in working condition, which is a buyback quote for a device in Good condition. The third is what an equivalent replacement costs, new or refurbished.<\/p>\n<p>The rule that follows is short. <strong>If the repair costs more than the device is worth working, the repair is buying an asset for more than its value.<\/strong> That happens routinely with screen repairs on mid-range tablets, where the glass and labour approach or exceed what the whole device fetches. In that situation the honest options are to sell it faulty, repurpose it, or recycle it, and all three beat spending two hundred dollars to own something worth one hundred and fifty.<\/p>\n<p>When the repair costs clearly less than the working value, and the device is still inside its support window, repairing is usually right. The awkward middle case is a repair that costs somewhat less than the working value on a device close to its support cutoff, and there the support answer breaks the tie: paying to fix a tablet that stops receiving patches in six months is buying a short lease.<\/p>\n<p>Run the numbers with your own quotes. Ours would be stale within a month, which is the same reason no figures appear in the section above.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"ttz-fig\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/texttoolz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ttz-fig-tablet-arithmetic.png\" alt=\"Four figures showing repair cost sold by repair shops, resale value by buyback companies, replacement cost by retailers, and no page carrying all three\" width=\"1600\" height=\"744\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\"><figcaption>One arithmetic problem, three terms, and a different seller behind each term.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Can you sell a tablet with a broken screen<\/h2>\n<p>Yes, in most cases, and this is the question with the largest gap between what people assume and what is true.<\/p>\n<p>A cracked screen puts the device in the Faulty tier rather than making it unsellable. Specialist buyback services and recyclers buy faulty devices routinely, because a tablet with a broken screen still contains a good logic board, a good battery, cameras and a case, all of which have value in refurbishment or as parts. Mazuma Mobile states plainly that faulty tablets can still be sold and that this usually means selling to a specialist rather than to a retailer.<\/p>\n<p>The published exceptions are narrow and worth knowing. Mazuma names two: a device snapped in two, and a device reported stolen. Beyond those, a broken tablet generally has a price, and it is frequently more than the owner expects.<\/p>\n<p>What changes is where you can sell it. High street retailers and kiosks tend to decline visibly damaged devices or offer very little for them. Online buyback specialists have a faulty category built into their quote forms. If your device is damaged, skip the retail routes below and go straight to the specialists, and be accurate about the damage when you grade it, because an optimistic grade is where a promised quote turns into a lower revised offer on receipt.<\/p>\n<h2>Wipe it properly before it leaves your hands<\/h2>\n<p>Every route on this page agrees on this and it is the one step with a real downside if skipped.<\/p>\n<p>Back up anything you want to keep first, because a factory reset is not reversible. Then sign out of the account tied to the device, which on an iPad means signing out of your Apple account so activation lock is cleared, and on Android means removing the Google account. Only then run the factory reset. A device that arrives at a buyback service still locked to an account is usually returned or valued at scrap, so this step protects your payout as well as your data.<\/p>\n<p>Buyback services do state that they wipe devices on receipt, and several make a point of it. That is not a reason to skip doing it yourself. The device is out of your control from the moment you post it, and the only wipe you can be certain of is the one you performed.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to sell it, and what each route costs you<\/h2>\n<p>Ten routes are worth knowing, and they trade off against each other on three axes: how much you get, how fast you get it, and how much work you do. No route wins all three, and most of the disappointment in this category comes from expecting one to.<\/p>\n<p>What this section cannot tell you is which service pays most today. We requested no quotes and ran no comparison, so any ranking here would be invented. Where comparative figures exist they belong to BGR and are attributed as such.<\/p>\n<h3>Online buyback specialists<\/h3>\n<p>This is the category most readers meet first: you enter your model and condition, receive a fixed quote, post the device free of charge, and get paid on receipt. SellCell, GreenBuyback, Music Magpie, Mazuma Mobile, Flipsy, Decluttr and Gazelle all operate some version of this model, and the differences between them are smaller than their marketing suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanism is worth understanding because it is where expectations break. The quote is issued against a condition grade that <em>you<\/em> assess from a short description. The device is then inspected on arrival by someone with no incentive to be generous. If the grades disagree, you receive a revised offer, and at that point your device is already in their warehouse and returning it costs you time you will probably not spend.<\/p>\n<p>The defence is straightforward: grade honestly and pessimistically. If you are unsure whether light scratching counts as Excellent or Good, call it Good. A quote that survives inspection is worth more than a higher quote that does not.<\/p>\n<p>Quote-lock periods are a genuine and checkable difference between these services. Mazuma Mobile publishes a guaranteed quote lasting fourteen days, which protects you from a price drop between accepting and posting. Not every service commits to a window, and it is worth asking before you send anything.<\/p>\n<p>Get three quotes before you post. The spread between buyback services on the same device is routinely wide enough to justify the ten minutes.<\/p>\n<h3>Buyback comparison sites<\/h3>\n<p>SellCell and Flipsy aggregate quotes across many buyers at once, which is the fastest way to see the range without filling in seven separate forms. For a reader who mainly wants to know whether selling is worth doing at all, this is the efficient first stop.<\/p>\n<p>The business model deserves stating plainly, because it shapes what you see. These sites earn a referral fee when you sell through them, so the comparison is real but the panel is the set of buyers they have relationships with rather than every buyer in existence. That is not a criticism so much as a boundary: treat the result as a well-informed price band, not as a complete market survey.<\/p>\n<p>Flipsy states that every local repair shop and online buyer in its network has been vetted for payout speed and security, which is a claim about its panel rather than a measurement, and it is credited here as the company&#8217;s own statement.<\/p>\n<p>What you reliably get from either is a realistic price band in about two minutes. That number is usually enough to make the actual decision, which is not &#8220;which service&#8221; but &#8220;is this worth doing&#8221;. A tablet quoted at fifteen dollars across the panel is telling you to repurpose or recycle it. A tablet quoted at two hundred is telling you to spend an evening getting it right.<\/p>\n<h3>Amazon trade-in<\/h3>\n<p>Credited to BGR&#8217;s reporting. You enter the device name and model on Amazon&#8217;s trade-in page to check eligibility and see any active promotions, accept the offer if you want it, then ship or drop the device at an approved location.<\/p>\n<p>The feature that distinguishes it is Instant Payment: for eligible devices you receive an Amazon gift card for the trade-in amount as soon as you start the order, before any inspection has happened. That removes the waiting period that makes postal buyback feel slow, and it removes the anxiety of wondering what the inspection will say.<\/p>\n<p>BGR&#8217;s assessment, credited, is that Amazon is every bit as convenient as a kiosk and usually pays somewhat better. BGR also notes that Amazon discounts hardware heavily during seasonal sale periods, so timing a trade-in to coincide with one turns the credit further than its face value.<\/p>\n<p>The constraint decides it. You are paid in Amazon credit, not cash. If you were going to spend that money on Amazon anyway, this is a strong route with an unusually pleasant process. If you wanted cash, the credit is worth less to you than its number suggests, and the specialists above are the better answer.<\/p>\n<h3>Best Buy trade-in<\/h3>\n<p>Credited to BGR. Best Buy accepts a wide range of electronics rather than only phones and tablets, which makes it efficient if you are clearing a drawer rather than selling one device. BGR reports that its trade-in values are competitive, only marginally below what dedicated device-selling services offer, which is a more favourable finding than the retailer&#8217;s reputation would suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Two constraints, both from BGR, decide whether it suits you. Payment is store credit only, never cash. And Best Buy may decline to buy a device that is more than a few years old, which is precisely the device most readers of this page are holding.<\/p>\n<p>That second constraint leads to the most useful thing in this entire section, and it serves a reader that no other route serves. BGR notes that Best Buy describes itself as America&#8217;s largest retail collector of electronic waste and accepts most electronics for recycling regardless of whether it will buy them, subject to some state-specific restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>So Best Buy is two answers in one place: a competitive trade-in for a reasonably recent device where store credit suits you, and a reliable disposal route for a device that nothing will buy. If your tablet is past support and quoted at nothing, that second answer is the one you need, and it is worth a trip.<\/p>\n<h3>GameStop<\/h3>\n<p>Credited to BGR, and included specifically because its reputation and its measured behaviour point in opposite directions.<\/p>\n<p>GameStop carries a widely held reputation for poor trade-in value, and for games that reputation is well earned. BGR&#8217;s finding on tablets is different: when comparing quotes between retail stores with trade-in programmes, GameStop tends to offer better value for tablets than either Best Buy or Target. That is a specific, checkable claim about a specific product category, and it is the kind of thing that only turns up when somebody with no stake actually compares.<\/p>\n<p>The process is a hybrid. You get a quote online through the GameStop Trade page by entering the device details, then complete the transaction in a physical store. BGR cites Reddit users reporting that stores reliably honour the online quote, provided the condition was described accurately and the device is brought in the same day. That provenance is worth stating: it is user report rather than measurement, and same-day matters.<\/p>\n<p>Best for a reader who wants money today, lives near a store and has graded their device honestly. The limitation is the trip itself, and the fact that walking in with an optimistic grade is how the quote changes at the counter.<\/p>\n<h3>Costco, through Phobio<\/h3>\n<p>Credited to BGR, and the most interesting route here because it is a relabelled one. Costco&#8217;s electronics trade-in programme is operated by a partner company called Phobio, which is a trade-in service you could sell to directly without involving Costco at all.<\/p>\n<p>BGR reports that you receive the same value either way, so what Costco adds is convenience: a Digital Costco Shop Card issued quickly and usable immediately, and a shipping box sent to you so you are not hunting for packaging. For a route that costs you nothing in payout terms, those are real conveniences.<\/p>\n<p>BGR also reports that consumers who sold electronics to Costco received as much as twenty percent more for their old tech than Apple&#8217;s trade-in programme offered for the same devices. That figure is BGR&#8217;s and is attributed to them here rather than restated as a measurement of ours.<\/p>\n<p>The credit spends across the entire warehouse rather than only on electronics, which is a genuine difference from Best Buy: groceries and household goods count, so the money behaves much more like cash for a member who shops there regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Best for existing Costco members. The limitations are that it is still store credit rather than cash, and that it requires a membership you would not sensibly buy for a single tablet.<\/p>\n<h3>Swappa<\/h3>\n<p>Credited to BGR. Swappa is not a buyer at all. It is a marketplace where you list the device yourself and sell to another individual, which changes every part of the trade-off.<\/p>\n<p>You do the work: writing the listing, photographing the device, answering questions, and posting it when it sells. In exchange you keep the margin that a buyback service would otherwise take, and that margin is the entire business model of every service in the first two sections of this list.<\/p>\n<p>BGR cites CNET rating Swappa the best overall method for selling used electronics, on the strength of its staff support, quick payouts and protections for both buyer and seller. That is a rating from CNET, reported by BGR, and the chain is stated here because it matters: it is a third-party assessment rather than a marketplace&#8217;s claim about itself. BGR also reports that selling on Swappa can return up to thirty-five percent more than the next-best option, again attributed to BGR.<\/p>\n<p>Best for a desirable model where the spread justifies the effort, and for a seller with patience.<\/p>\n<p>The limitation is the exact thing the buyback services are selling you: there is no guaranteed sale and no guaranteed date. BGR&#8217;s own framing is fair, that you would have a much simpler experience walking into a store for guaranteed money today, and that Swappa rewards those willing to wait.<\/p>\n<h3>ecoATM kiosks<\/h3>\n<p>Included because it is the route most readers will physically walk past in a supermarket, and because BGR is the only page on this entire search that warns anyone about anything.<\/p>\n<p>The proposition is immediacy. You put the device into an automated kiosk, it inspects and tests the hardware, it makes an offer, and it pays cash on the spot. No postage, no packaging, no waiting for an inspection somewhere else, no account.<\/p>\n<p>BGR&#8217;s finding, credited, is that these kiosks often pay significantly less than other services. That is the price of the convenience, and it is a large price rather than a small one.<\/p>\n<p>There is an honest case for using one anyway, and it is worth stating rather than dismissing the route. If your device is worth very little, the difference between a kiosk offer and the best online quote may be a few dollars, and a few dollars does not justify grading, packing and posting anything. Below a certain value, convenience genuinely wins.<\/p>\n<p>The case where it is wrong is any device in good working condition with a real resale value, where the gap between the kiosk offer and a specialist quote is large enough to be worth an envelope and four days. Get one online quote before you accept a kiosk offer. It takes two minutes and it tells you which of those two situations you are in.<\/p>\n<h3>Manufacturer trade-in programmes<\/h3>\n<p>Apple and Samsung both run their own trade-in programmes, and for most readers these are the first option encountered, because they appear during the checkout flow for the new device.<\/p>\n<p>BGR links user complaints about both, reporting frustration with Apple&#8217;s iPhone trade-in programme and pointing to similar complaints on Reddit about Samsung&#8217;s. That provenance is worth stating precisely: these are user reports of a frustrating process rather than a measured finding about payout levels, and they are credited to BGR&#8217;s reporting of them.<\/p>\n<p>The structural point is the more useful one. Manufacturer programmes pay in credit toward that manufacturer&#8217;s next device. They are therefore a discount on a purchase you have already decided to make, not a way to turn a tablet into money. If you were buying the new iPad regardless, the credit is real value. If you were undecided, the credit is a reason to buy something, which is what it is designed to be.<\/p>\n<p>On payout level, BGR&#8217;s Costco comparison is the relevant data point: sellers reported receiving as much as twenty percent more through Costco and Phobio than Apple&#8217;s programme offered for the same device, attributed to BGR.<\/p>\n<p>Best for a reader already committed to the next device from the same brand. Worth checking against one specialist quote first, because twenty percent of a tablet is not a small amount.<\/p>\n<h3>Selling it yourself on a general marketplace<\/h3>\n<p>eBay, Facebook Marketplace and local classifieds sit at the top of the payout range and the top of the effort range.<\/p>\n<p>Mazuma Mobile&#8217;s own account of the risks is fair enough to credit even though it comes from a company competing with this route: listings take time, messages need answering, postage needs arranging, payment needs managing, and both scams and payment disputes are real exposures that can leave you without the device and without the money.<\/p>\n<p>Mazuma also makes a point about selling to somebody you know that is worth repeating, because it is the failure mode people do not anticipate. If the tablet develops a fault shortly after you sell it to a colleague or a friend, you have created a problem that no buyback service could have created for you. The same applies to forgetting to remove your accounts before handing it over.<\/p>\n<p>Best for high-value models where the spread over a buyback quote genuinely justifies the work, and for sellers comfortable handling a dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The limitation is that you are also the returns department, the customer support line and the fraud check, for as long as it takes. That is the job the buyback services do in exchange for their margin, and whether their margin is fair depends entirely on how much you value not doing it.<\/p>\n<h2>When nothing will buy it<\/h2>\n<p>This is the end of the decision tree that no seller writes, and for a tablet past its support window it is frequently where you land.<\/p>\n<p>The first option is repurposing, and it suits exactly the device that is past support, because the good uses need no account and hold no data. A tablet mounted in the kitchen as a recipe screen, used as a monitor for a security camera feed, running as a music or smart-home controller, or set up as a digital photo frame is doing useful work without ever logging into anything worth stealing. BGR maintains its own guide to uses for an old Android tablet and links to it from the article credited throughout this page.<\/p>\n<p>The second option is recycling. BGR notes that Best Buy accepts most electronics for recycling and describes itself as America&#8217;s largest retail collector of electronic waste, subject to some state restrictions. Local authority recycling centres and manufacturer take-back schemes are the other routes.<\/p>\n<p>The rule worth holding on to is this: a tablet past support with no resale value is not rubbish. It is either a single-purpose device or it is e-waste, and both of those are better outcomes than a drawer, which is where most of them go and where they lose the rest of their value while you decide.<\/p>\n<h2>What this page will not tell you<\/h2>\n<p>Which service pays the most today. We requested no quotes, sold no device and ran no payout comparison, so any ranking here would be invented rather than measured.<\/p>\n<p>The two comparative figures that appear on this page, Costco returning as much as twenty percent more than Apple&#8217;s programme and Swappa sometimes returning thirty-five percent above the next-best option, both belong to BGR and are attributed in the sentences carrying them.<\/p>\n<p>Live trade-in values for specific models are excluded entirely, and that is a deliberate decision rather than an omission. Those values change weekly and fall sharply when a new model is announced, so a figure that was accurate when this was written would be misleading within weeks. Any page quoting a specific dollar value for your model has the same problem, whether or not it says so.<\/p>\n<p>What to do instead takes ten minutes: get three quotes on the same day, using the same honest condition grade for each, and compare those. That is the only price comparison that is true at the moment you need it.<\/p>\n<h2>How this guide was built<\/h2>\n<p>Twelve search results were reviewed and eight were extracted in full on 15 August 2026, seven directly and one through a proxy after the site refused the first request. Keyword research was run the same day against Google&#8217;s own autocomplete, returning four hundred real queries, of which eighty-four were questions. That source gives no search volume figures and none are quoted anywhere on this page.<\/p>\n<p>Nine of those twelve results are published by a company that profits from one of the three possible answers to the question. That is recorded as a fact about the sources rather than as an insinuation about their honesty, and it is the reason this page exists in the form it does.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the results were discussion threads, one on Reddit and one in a Facebook group, and neither could be extracted. The two places on this search where sellers talk to each other are therefore unread here, and that gap is stated rather than hidden.<\/p>\n<p>One further caveat about method, recorded because it affects how any page like this should be read: one of the results carries a tag instructing search engines not to index it, yet it was returned by the search index used for this research. An index position is evidence that a page is relevant and has been crawled. It is not proof that the page ranks.<\/p>\n<p>If you work in this category and something here is out of date or wrong, the <a href=\"https:\/\/texttoolz.com\/blog\/write-for-us\/\">editorial contact page<\/a> is the fastest route to a correction.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<p>These are the questions people actually type about old tablets, taken from Google&#8217;s own query suggestions and from the FAQ blocks the ranking pages publish.<\/p>\n<h3>Is my old tablet worth anything?<\/h3>\n<p>Usually yes, if it powers on. Premium models hold value longest, and even faulty devices sell to specialist recyclers for parts and refurbishment. Whether it is worth <em>keeping<\/em> is a different question, and that one turns on whether it still receives security updates.<\/p>\n<h3>Can you sell a tablet with a broken screen?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, in most cases. A cracked screen moves the device into the Faulty tier rather than making it unsellable, and specialists buy faulty devices routinely. Mazuma Mobile names two published exceptions: a tablet snapped in two, and one reported stolen.<\/p>\n<h3>Do tablets lose value quickly?<\/h3>\n<p>Less quickly than phones. Mazuma Mobile reports that tablets have a longer shelf life and hold value longer, with the sharpest drops arriving when a manufacturer launches a new model. Selling sooner rather than later generally secures more.<\/p>\n<h3>Which tablets hold their value best?<\/h3>\n<p>Premium ranges, principally Apple iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tabs, because demand for them persists in the second-hand market. Cellular and unlocked versions are worth more than Wi-Fi-only models of the same tablet, which is the factor most sellers forget to mention when getting a quote.<\/p>\n<h3>Should I sell my tablet or keep it?<\/h3>\n<p>Check the support window first. If it still receives security updates and you still use it, keep it. If it is supported but unused, sell it while it holds value. If it is past support, sell, repurpose or recycle it, but do not pay for a repair on it.<\/p>\n<h3>Which buyback service pays the most?<\/h3>\n<p>This page cannot tell you. We requested no quotes and ran no comparison, so any ranking would be invented. The only comparative figures available come from BGR, and they are credited where they appear. Get three quotes on the same day instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing that decides whether your old tablet is worth keeping is not its age, its condition or the crack in the corner. It is whether the manufacturer still sends it security updates. Not one of the nine commercial pages ranking for this question mentions that. 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