Sell your Galaxy Z Fold3 5G for cash

A 512GB Galaxy Z Fold3 in Fair condition pays $73, and a 256GB in the same shape pays $64. Fair means heavy wear you can feel with a fingernail but no cracks and no chips, which is where a lot of five year old Folds honestly sit. If yours has been in a case its whole life, look a couple of rows higher, where a 512GB pays $121.

No. That is where the under display camera lives.

The Fold3 was Samsung's first phone with a camera hidden beneath the screen rather than sitting in a hole cut through it. To let light reach the sensor, the pixels over that spot are spread out, so the patch looks slightly hazy or mesh-like, particularly against white. Every single Galaxy Z Fold3 does this. It is not a scratch, not a burn, not a dead zone, and it does not lower your grade.

Open the camera app, unfold the phone so you are using the big screen, switch to the front camera and take one photo. You should get a soft, slightly milky selfie, which is normal for a 4MP sensor shooting through a display. What you should not get is a black frame, a preview that will not move, or an app that closes itself. Any of those and the camera has failed, which is a functionality issue, which means Faulty. It takes ten seconds and almost nobody does it, because almost nobody uses that camera.

Yes, all five. Three on the back, one on the cover screen and the hidden one inside. There is no partial credit for a phone where the telephoto has stopped focusing or the ultra wide shows a black frame. On a Samsung phone any part that has stopped working takes the grade to Faulty, and cameras are no different from buttons or speakers in that respect. Take one shot with each before you pick your grade.

Yes, and it is worth posting even though the number is small. Cracks and chips on the inner panel, the cover screen, the back or a lens cover all grade Faulty, which pays $11 at 256GB and $12 at 512GB. If that is not worth your time, say so and we will recycle it for free instead, wiped properly, and you have lost nothing but a walk to the mailbox.

No. Samsung describes the crease as a normal characteristic of the folding design rather than a defect, and it does not affect what we pay. Grade the phone on marks, cracks and things that have stopped working.

Heavy wear you can feel. Run a fingernail across the cover glass, the back and the frame: if it drops into scratches rather than gliding over them, that is Fair. Fair still means no cracks and no chips anywhere. Once there is a crack, or a chip out of a corner, or a lens cover with a nick in it, you are in Faulty instead, and that is a different row entirely.

Two easy tells. The Fold3 has a camera hidden under the inner screen, so there is no visible hole punched in the middle of the top edge of the big display. The Fold2 has an obvious punch hole up there. The Fold3 is also water resistant and the Fold2 is not, and the Fold3 works with an S Pen while the Fold2 does not. Weights are 271g against 282g. For certainty, Settings, About phone, Model number: SM-F926U is a Fold3, SM-F916U is a Fold2. If it is the older one, our sell your Galaxy Z Fold2 5G page has its own prices.

It is rated IPX8, and Samsung made a point of it at launch because the Fold3 was the first foldable phone it had ever made water resistant. That covers water only. There is no dust rating on this phone at all, which is why grit works its way into the hinge over the years. Neither rating changes how we grade it. What matters is whether anything has stopped working, because that is what takes a phone to Faulty.

No. The Fold3 was the first Z series phone to accept an S Pen, but the pen was always a separate purchase and never came in the box, so it is not part of the price. That is unlike a Galaxy S Ultra, where the S Pen lives in the phone and a missing one drops it straight to Faulty. Keep your pen, your case and your charger.

More than on any newer Fold, and it is worth five minutes of your time. Both panels are OLED and five years of the same clock in the same corner is exactly how burn-in happens. Turn the brightness up, open a plain white image, and look across the 7.6-inch inner screen at an angle in a dim room, then do the same on the 6.2-inch cover screen. A faint ghost of the clock, the battery icon, the navigation bar or a keyboard means burn-in, and burn-in grades Faulty on either screen even if everything else about the phone is fine.

No. Samsung phones carry no battery percentage rule with us, so a five year old battery that does not last the day is not a problem and there is no health screen you need to find. The only way battery reaches the grade is if it has genuinely failed, and a phone that does not work is Faulty on the general rule rather than a battery one.

Not for money. Without power we cannot open it, test the panels and cameras, or clear your data, and we will not buy a device we have not been able to wipe. Free recycling is the alternative, Department of Defense grade wipe included, and if you would rather keep it we post it back and pay for that too.

Then the sale stops before we get to grading. Anything still on an installment plan or a lease is under a financial obligation and we do not purchase those. Anything reported lost or stolen, blacklisted or carrier blocked is out. A live Google account lock or FRP lock is out, and so is a tripped Knox counter. The lock is the only one with a fix at your end: sign out of the account and erase the phone in Settings before it goes in the box.

Four payment routes: gift card, which averages about 3 percent above the cash figure, PayPal, instant with PayPal's 2.99 percent fee, bank transfer at 2 to 4 days, and check at 3 to 5. A sealed Brand New Fold3 has to go through PayPal. On the carrier question, be honest with yourself about the offer. Carriers pay in bill credit stretched over years and tied to the line staying open, and at the price a 2021 Fold commands that credit can look better on paper than it feels in practice. Compare both, take the better one, and if it is not us we would still rather you got the right number.