Sell the iPad that has become a very expensive recipe screen.
Pro, Air, mini or standard. Cellular or wifi. Any generation back to the ones people have genuinely forgotten about.
iPads have a specific way of becoming worthless, and it is not by breaking. They get bought with real enthusiasm, used properly for about eight months, and then gradually demoted: from work device, to reading device, to kitchen device, to the thing under the couch that a child watches videos on.
Meanwhile the M-series iPad Pro is the most powerful tablet anyone sells and the second-hand market for it is strong. An iPad that has been demoted to the couch is frequently worth more than its owner would guess, especially the Pro and Air models with cellular.
The ones that genuinely have little value are the very old base-model iPads that no longer take current iPadOS. Even those, we will quote rather than turn away.
The iPad models we buy.
Working or faulty, from boxed and spotless to cracked or not switching on. Not sure which model you have? Look under Settings, General, About.
iPad Pro
M5, M4, M2 and earlier, 11-inch or 13-inch
iPad Air
M3, M2, M1 and the 10.9-inch models
iPad
Standard model, A16 and earlier generations
iPad mini
A17 Pro and earlier generations
Upgrading? Put it towards the new one.
If your iPad is pre-M-chip, the jump is genuinely large rather than incremental, and an older iPad plus trade-in credit covers a real share of a used M-series one.
Take the payout as EpicDeals.co.za credit instead of cash and we add 12% on top. That is us paying you for not needing the money in your account today, and it costs you nothing if you were going to spend it here anyway.
The 12% is only worth taking if you were going to spend it. If you need the cash, take the cash, and we will not make the voucher hard to refuse.
What affects your offer.
Cellular, which is worth more than it costs
A wifi-plus-cellular iPad is meaningfully more valuable second-hand than the wifi-only version of the same model, because the people buying used iPads are often buying them to use away from a desk. Check the SIM tray before you answer.
Which chip is in it
The move to M-series silicon split the iPad market in half. An M-chip iPad is a current computer. An older A-chip iPad is a media player. The gap in value between them is much larger than the age difference suggests.
Screen condition, judged harshly
iPads are usually carried without cases and put down on tables, so edge chips and screen scratches are common. On a screen this size a scratch is far more visible than on a phone, and buyers price it that way.
The Pencil and keyboard, if you still have them
An Apple Pencil or a Magic Keyboard adds real money, and they are often lost separately from the iPad itself. Have a look in the drawer before you send it. Both have their own tick box in the calculator, so they get priced on top of the iPad rather than thrown in. Accessory figures are estimates until we have the thing in front of us, and we confirm them when we test.
We still buy it with these.
Choose the closest condition in the calculator and mention anything that is wrong. Your offer already takes it into account.
- Cracked or scratched screen, chipped corners
- Battery that no longer lasts an afternoon
- Charging port worn loose or not charging
- Screen with dead pixels, backlight bleed or delamination
- Bent chassis, which is common on the thinner Pro models
- Buttons, speakers or cameras not working
- Will not switch on at all
Three ways to take the money.
Cash
Instant offer
Assessed within 1-3 working days of arriving, paid within 5 working days of your offer being confirmed.
+12%
Trade-in voucher
Take it as credit on EpicDeals.co.za instead and we add 12%. Useful if the plan was always to upgrade.
+10%
Consignment
We list it, we sell it, you get 10% more than the instant offer. Most sell within 13 days.
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