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SELL YOUR GALAXY TAB S9 FE PLUS
A Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus pays between $26 and $195. Capacity and wear move it between those two ends. It takes about a minute to quote and the price is locked for 14 days from the moment you accept it.
One rule first, because it decides more than any scratch. If the S Pen is missing, the tablet grades Faulty and lands on the bottom row. It does not slip one grade, it goes all the way down, and it happens because Samsung shipped the pen in the box as part of the tablet. Track it down before you quote.
Most people call it a trade-in. We call it a Buyback, and here is the honest version of the difference: a carrier offer is credit tied to a plan, and ours is money in your account.
The interesting thing about this tablet is the screen, and specifically what it is not. The Tab S9 FE Plus uses an LCD. The Tab S9 Plus, which is exactly the same size and shape, uses an AMOLED. Sat next to each other, switched off, nobody can tell them apart.
Switched on in a dark room they separate instantly. Turn the lights off, drop the brightness low, and open a full screen black image. An LCD cannot make true black, so this tablet glows a dark gray and you will usually see the backlight leaking at the corners and along the edges. An AMOLED goes properly black and the screen vanishes into the bezel. Glowing gray means you are holding the FE Plus.
That test earns its keep a second time, because it tells you what not to worry about. Backlight leak and slight cloudiness at the edges are how this panel is built. They are not damage and they do not cost you a grade. What does count is a blotch or a bright patch where something has pressed on the screen, or a section that stays dark, because that is a display that has failed, and a failed part means Faulty.
It also means one whole rule from our other Samsung pages does not apply here. Burn-in cannot happen on an LCD. There is nothing to look for, so do not go hunting for ghost icons and do not grade yourself down for finding something that is really just a reflection.
Where to sell a Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus is a shorter list than it looks, because plenty of buyers skip the FE line entirely. We take them worn, we take them cracked, and the label is free in both directions. Sell your used Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus here and the quote holds long enough for the post to do its work.
LIVE PRICES
The used resale value of a Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus starts at $26 for a 128GB tablet with cracked glass and tops out at $195 for a sealed 256GB one. Anything worn but working sits between those.
Both capacities are shown at WiFi prices, pulled live from our own feed as you load the page.
| Comparison row | 128GB | 256GB |
|---|---|---|
Brand New | $170 | $195 |
Flawless | $170 | $195 |
Good | $130 | $155 |
Average | $111 | $132 |
Fair | $78 | $93 |
Faulty | $26 | $31 |
HOW IT WORKS
Do the dark room check first so you know it is the FE Plus and not the Tab S9 Plus, then pick 128GB or 256GB and the condition that matches the wear. Keep the S Pen next to you while you choose. The Buyback price you accept holds for 14 days.
A prepaid USPS label arrives by email. Sign out of your Samsung account and your Google account, take out the microSD card, then factory reset the tablet. Send the S Pen with it. Leave the keyboard cover, the case and the charger where they are.
We check your tablet by hand within 48 hours of it arriving and tell you what we found. If it matches, the payment goes out the same day by gift card, PayPal, bank transfer or check. Everything gets a Department of Defense grade wipe here, whether we buy it or recycle it.
SPEC SHEET
The model number is not on the back of the tablet. Find it in Settings, under About tablet, on the Model number line.
| Launched | October 2023 |
|---|---|
| Model numbers | SM-X610 on WiFi. SM-X616B on 5G |
| Display | 12.4 inch LCD, 2560 by 1600, up to 90Hz |
| Chip | Exynos 1380 |
| Storage sold | 128GB and 256GB, plus a microSD slot |
| Fingerprint reader | In the power button |
| Battery | 10,090 mAh |
| Port | USB-C |
| Water resistance | IP68 |
| S Pen | Included in the box. Required, or the tablet grades Faulty |
| Weight | 628g |
| Screen burn-in | Cannot happen. This panel is LCD, not AMOLED |
| Backlight leak at the edges | Normal for this panel. Not counted against your grade |
| Colors | Gray, Silver, Mint and Lavender, all worth the same |
GALAXY TAB S9 FE PLUS BUYBACK QUESTIONS
A 256GB in Average condition is $132, which is where most tablets that have been in daily use end up. Clean it up to Good and it is $155. A 128GB in Average condition is $111. The quote tool at the top of the page prices yours exactly.
Both are 12.4 inches and the same footprint, so looking at them side by side settles nothing. Do the dark room test instead. Lights off, brightness low, full screen black image. The FE Plus glows dark gray with light leaking at the corners, because it is an LCD. The Tab S9 Plus goes pure black, because it is an AMOLED.
Two more checks if you want certainty. The model number in Settings, About tablet: SM-X610 or SM-X616B is the FE Plus, SM-X810 or SM-X816 is the Tab S9 Plus. And the weight, 628g against 581g, which you can feel if you have both. The Galaxy Tab S9 Plus page has that model's own prices, and they are quite a bit higher, so it is worth being sure.
No, and please do not grade yourself down for it. Every LCD is lit from behind, and on a panel this big a little of that light escapes at the corners and edges. It is how the screen was built, it was doing it on day one, and it does not move your grade at all. What is not normal is a blotch where the screen has been pressed, a patch that stays dark, or a bright spot that follows nothing on screen. Those are a failed display, and a failed part makes the tablet Faulty.
It cannot happen here. Burn-in is an AMOLED problem, where pixels that show the same thing for years wear at a different rate. An LCD has a single backlight behind a fixed layer, so there is nothing to wear unevenly. If you arrived from one of our Samsung phone pages expecting to hunt for a ghost of the navigation bar, skip it. Nothing you find on this screen is burn-in.
Then the tablet is Faulty and it is priced on the bottom row. We say it early and we say it plainly because it is the most expensive avoidable mistake on this model. The pen came in the box with the tablet, so we are buying the pair. Any genuine S Pen that works with this tablet will do, including a used one, as long as it writes on the screen. Check the magnetic strip on the back before you conclude it is gone.
Yes. A cracked or chipped tablet is Faulty, which is $26 at 128GB and $31 at 256GB. That is a price rather than a rejection, and it holds as long as you pick Faulty when you quote. On a 12.4 inch screen, pack it with real padding so a crack does not turn into loose glass in the parcel.
It does not. We run no battery percentage rule on Samsung tablets, so there is no figure to reach and no menu to go looking for. The battery only affects the grade if it has stopped doing its job, and then it is Faulty for the same reason any dead part makes a tablet Faulty. A 10,090 mAh battery that still lasts a long afternoon is exactly what we expect.
Every price on this page is for a WiFi tablet. Our cellular figures for the Tab S9 FE Plus are not right at the moment, so if you have the 5G model, do not treat an online cellular quote for it as real. We would rather tell you that up front than have you accept a number nobody here would honor. The WiFi prices are correct and current. Worth knowing either way: a Galaxy Tab has no carrier lock, so the network it ran on never changes what it is worth.
The Samsung account and the Google account, both, and then a factory reset from Settings, General management, Reset. Sign out first, reset second.
If an account is still attached when the tablet reaches us, it locks on the first boot and there is nothing we can do from this end. That covers Google FRP and a tripped Knox counter too. Two minutes of your time saves the tablet a round trip. The full walkthrough is on our erase your device page. We also wipe every device to Department of Defense standards when it arrives.
No. Keyboards, covers, cases and chargers are not priced into the quote, so they cannot add anything to your payment and they can go missing in the post. Keep them, sell them separately if you like. The S Pen is the only thing that has to travel with the tablet.
Look, then feel. Good is light wear you would not spot from arm's length. Average is wear you can see but your fingernail glides over. Fair is wear your nail catches on, dents on the frame or deeper scratches, with the glass unbroken. Flawless means no marks at all. Faulty covers cracks, chips, a missing S Pen and anything that has stopped working. Aluminum frames on a tablet this size pick up dings along the long edges first, so start there.
Not for a payment. A tablet with no power cannot be tested and your data cannot be removed from it, and we do not buy devices we cannot clear. Free recycling is the offer instead. Post it on our label, we destroy the data to Department of Defense standards and dispose of the hardware properly, or we send it back to you for nothing if you change your mind.
Both are stop signs. A tablet under an installment plan or a lease is under a financial obligation, and we do not purchase devices under financial obligations. Blacklisted, reported lost or stolen, blocked by a carrier, or still locked to an account are all a no at every grade. Settle it or clear it, then quote it and we will treat it like any other tablet.
Rarely on an FE tablet, and never as cash. Carrier offers arrive as bill credit spread over a couple of years, usually attached to a new line. We pay $155 for a 256GB in Good condition, in money, the day it clears inspection, with nothing to sign. Compare them straight and take whichever suits you.
You choose at checkout between a gift card, PayPal, a bank transfer and a check. The gift card averages around 3 percent more because the brands add a bonus. PayPal is instant with PayPal's own 2.99 percent fee. Bank transfer runs 2 to 4 days, a check 3 to 5. They all leave the same day your tablet clears inspection. The single exception is a sealed Brand New tablet, which is paid by PayPal only.
Capacity and condition, about a minute, and we hold the number for 14 days.
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