As mentioned above, yes Apple still does in store trade ins for Macs. My friend just did it over the weekend. She ordered her MBP without selecting trade in. Once it arrived, she took her old machine to Apple and was in and out in 5 minutes. They refunded the amount to her CC.
In Atlanta GA, they did stop it for a while. But, a few months ago, they started it again. I traded in my Apple Watch 3, for an Apple Watch 6...
Not really. You don't need to buy anything to trade in. I first did 2 trade ins (collected 2 Apple gift cards) and then bought Mac studio. But those transactions were not related to each other.
I should have clarified, I believe to get the amount refunded to your CC you need to purchase within 14 days.
I was under the impression in order for this to happen you needed to initiate the trade in during a purchase and then you have 14 days to send the trade-in.
Nope. At least, not my experience. My iPad last month and my friends MacBook on Saturday were post-purchase trade ins and we did not indicate online during the order we had a trade in.
My wife would like to trade in or get value for her M1 Air and buy the 14. Should she first buy the 14, then go to the store and trade in the M1 Air? Can she then use the trade in value against the 14 and receive a refund?
did you get gift cards? how were u able to apply the trade in value to the product you already paid for?
I applied the gift cards to my account. When you buy you have an option to add it as a part of the payment.
They refund the trade in cost to the credit card used to purchase the new device.
While that's true, in addition to not getting the refund on the original payment credit card (which is better than a gift card since you don't have to buy something else to crystallize the savings), I believe when you do it this way, not only do you get the "refund" of the trade-in-value, but also the value of the sales tax (because technically, they're allowing you to reduce the purchase price of the new MBP, which lowers the sales tax you should have paid).
Not sure how would you offset the tax though. The payment is applied at the final stage of the purchase when the taxes are already calculated. At the same time are applied all credits. Unless you personally saw a tax offset don't think that is the case.
So you are saying they will add tax refund on the trade in value? The tax value on my trade in was 0. The trade in was not taxed nor did I see a tax refund. I am struggling to understand how this process would work otherwise.
My trade in on two different Airs was about $25 more than the quote. Since my sales tax rate is about 7%, I figured that was the difference and accounted for the increase in funds. No tax was listed, just a total.
The only thing I see here about the 14 days window is:
What they are saying here is that you can check the trade in value online and it would normally match the assessed value unless you over/under estimate the condition of the device. In which case the actual estimated value may differ.
Sure - my point is, set up the trade at the time of purchase. If you’re purchasing online for pick-up at a store, set up the trade then. If you bring your old device randomly into the store AFTER arranging a purchase without a trade-in, I’d count on getting a gift card. “Maybe” they’ll credit your purchasing credit card but I don’t see where that’s promised anywhere.
I have done several trade ins and have never received a tax credit or tax reduction. I’ve done trade ins during the same transaction and on a different day entirely. Each time, they charge the full sales tax on the new machine and then apply the trade in credit after.
