{"id":347844,"date":"2017-06-21T03:55:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T19:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/20\/apple-mac-trade-in-partner-phobio\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T03:55:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T19:55:01","slug":"apple-adds-phobio-as-new-mac-trade-in-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apple-adds-phobio-as-new-mac-trade-in-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Adds Phobio as New Mac Trade-In Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple today updated its Mac recycling program to partner with a new company, replacing longtime partner <a href=\"http:\/\/poweron.com\">PowerOn<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/phobio.com\">Phobio<\/a>, a company that promises a seamless device buyback program. Apple&#8217;s recycling program is designed to offer Apple users cash for their old devices by providing simple trade-in options.<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, when you use Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/recycling\/\">Renew and Recycling program<\/a> to recycle a Mac desktop or notebook, Apple will now direct you to <a href=\"https:\/\/phobio.com\/tradein\/apple\/\">Phobio&#8217;s site<\/a> where you can find your Mac by entering a serial number. After answering a couple of questions about condition, Phobio offers up a price estimate and lets users choose an Apple Store Gift Card, Paypal, or Virtual Visa Reward as a payment option.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/06\/applephobio-800x414.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"414\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-572106\"\/><br \/>According to a source that spoke to <em>MacRumors<\/em> about the partnership change, Apple opted to go with Phobio because the site offers higher trade-in values, is easier to navigate, and provides an option for cash payments alongside Apple Store Gift Cards, something that wasn&#8217;t available via PowerOn.<\/p>\n<p>Based on our testing, Phobio and PowerOn offer similar trade-in values for many machines, with PowerOn offering a slight edge in value for newer Macs, while Phobio seems to have slightly better pricing for some older models.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is only partnering with Phobio for Mac trade-ins at the current time. For PC trade-ins, Apple continues to work with PowerOn, and for iPad and iPhone trade-ins, Apple is still using longtime partner Brightstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple today updated its Mac recycling program to partner with a new company, replacing longtime partner PowerOn with Phobio, a company that promises a seamless device buyback program. Apple&#8217;s recycling program is designed to offer Apple users cash for their old devices by providing simple trade-in options. Starting today, when you use Apple&#8217;s Renew and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":347845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-347844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}