Sell your Galaxy Tab Active5 for cash

Storage and wear decide it. A 128GB in Good condition, meaning light wear you would not pick out at arm's length, pays $95. The same unit at 256GB is $105. Drop a 128GB to Average, where the marks are visible but your fingernail passes over them, and it is $81. Use the quote tool at the top of the page for the exact configuration.

Yes it does, and a missing one is expensive. Samsung ships the S Pen with the Galaxy Tab Active5, so the pen is part of the tablet rather than an accessory somebody bought later. A unit that arrives here without its pen grades Faulty, whatever condition the rest of it is in.

The reason this catches fleets specifically is where the pen lives. It sits in the protective case, not in a silo in the tablet, so pulling the case off to save postage takes the pen out of the box without anyone deciding to leave it behind. Before you seal anything, count pens against tablets. If the numbers do not match, go and look in the vehicles.

Send it, in the tablet. A Galaxy Tab Active5 with no pack in it will not power on, and a tablet we cannot power on is one we cannot test or wipe, so we cannot buy it at all. That turns a paying unit into a free recycle for the sake of a battery.

The pack itself does not set the grade. There is no battery percentage rule on any Samsung tablet, so we are not asking for a health figure and there is no screen to read one off. If a pack is visibly swollen, do not put it in the post. Fit a good spare, keep the swollen one back and take it to a proper battery recycler.

Not at all, and the ruggedness is what makes people over-grade themselves. Take the rubber bumper off before you decide. A Galaxy Tab Active5 that looks unmarked with the bumper on can have a chipped corner or a hairline crack in the glass underneath it. Any crack or chip anywhere is Faulty, however well the tablet works. Then run a fingernail over the display and around the edges: marks you cannot feel are Average, wear your nail drops into is Fair, and anything you can see but not feel at arm's length is Good.

Faulty, and it is worth knowing why our rule is written the way it is. On Samsung tablets we do not keep a checklist of parts. If anything on the unit has stopped working, the unit is Faulty. That covers the programmable key, the power and volume buttons, the touchscreen in glove mode, the speaker, the microphone and the charging contacts. Quote it as Faulty, tell us what is wrong, and the number you saw is the number that lands.

Not on this model, and that is unusual enough to say out loud. On most tablets we buy, the cellular version pays more. On the Galaxy Tab Active5, WiFi and WiFi + Cellular are identical at every grade and both capacities. So a mixed fleet prices on storage and wear alone. There is no carrier lock on a tablet either, so it makes no difference which network the 5G units sat on. One extra check does apply to cellular units: the IMEI has to be clean. A WiFi unit has no IMEI at all.

No. It has an LCD panel and burn-in only happens to AMOLED. That matters here because these tablets often run one app all day, every day, for years, which is exactly the pattern that burns a shape into an AMOLED screen. On a Galaxy Tab Active5 it cannot. A permanent mark on the display is a dead pixel or a crack, not burn-in.

Sign out first, wipe second, on every unit. Settings, tap the account name at the top, sign out of the Samsung account. Then Settings, Accounts and backup, Manage accounts, remove the Google account. Only then Settings, General management, Reset, Factory data reset. Wiping before signing out can leave the tablet locked to an account nobody has the password for any more.

If the fleet was enrolled in Knox or a mobile device management console, release each unit from the console as well. A tablet still enrolled arrives locked, and a locked tablet we cannot buy at any grade. The erase your device page walks through it step by step. We run a Department of Defense grade wipe on arrival too.

Then we cannot buy that one. A Google account lock, an FRP lock or a tripped Knox counter all mean the same thing to us: the tablet is not really yours to sell until it is cleared, and we will not put a price on it. Same answer for anything reported lost or stolen or blocked by a carrier. Clear it and quote it normally, or send it in for free recycling and we will wipe it anyway.

Keep them. Accessories are not priced into a Buyback, so a protective case, a vehicle dock, a charging cradle, a hand strap or a pile of USB-C bricks add nothing to what you are paid and give things a chance to go astray. The S Pen is the one exception, because it came with the tablet. Pen in the box, everything else stays on your shelf.

Try a known good battery first, because on this model that fixes it more often than on anything else we buy. If it still will not start, we cannot buy it. A tablet with no power cannot be tested and your data cannot be cleared off it, which is the real reason. Send it on a free label and we will recycle it for nothing, wiped to Department of Defense standards. Ask for it back instead and that is free too.

Not until the balance is settled. Anything under an installment plan or a lease counts as being under a financial obligation, and we do not purchase devices under financial obligations. That comes up more on fleet hardware than on consumer tablets, so check the paperwork before you box anything. Once the units are owned outright, quote them normally.

Rarely, and the shape of the offer is the reason. Carrier programs pay in bill credits tied to lines you keep for two or three years, which is fine if you are staying put and worth very little if you are switching or shrinking. A Buyback is cash or a gift card, settled inside a week of arrival, with no strings on your account afterward. Get both numbers and compare what they are actually made of, not just the headline.

Four options, chosen at checkout. A gift card is emailed and lands around 3 percent above the others because the brands add a bonus. PayPal is instant, less PayPal's own 2.99 percent fee. Bank transfer is 2 to 4 days, a posted check 3 to 5. Payment goes out the same day the units clear inspection. Sealed Brand New stock is paid by PayPal only, which is worth knowing if you are selling unopened spares.

Yes. Ten or more is a bulk job and it does not belong in the one-at-a-time quote tool. Our bulk team prices the batch as a batch, sorts labels and packaging for the volume, and gives you one point of contact instead of a queue of separate orders. Send them a list with quantities, storage and rough condition split and they will come back with a figure.