Sell your iPad Air 11" (M3) for cash

Storage, connectivity and wear set your number. The grid on this page holds every WiFi combination. For your exact one, run the quote tool.

They are two different deals. A trade-in is what Apple or a carrier runs. They take your tablet against something else you're buying, and the money arrives as credit on that purchase.

A Buyback is ours. We buy the iPad and pay via gift card, PayPal, bank transfer, or check. You can spend it anywhere, on anything.

Right here. Apple, the carriers and the marketplace listings are all open to you too. Get our number first, then hold it against theirs.

Three 11-inch Airs now share one shell. The M2 arrived in 2024, this M3 in 2025, and the M4 in 2026. Same size, same colors, same USB-C port, same weight. Nothing on the outside tells you which one you're holding.

Open Settings, then General, then About. Find the Model Number line and tap it once. It flips from the long sales code to a short one starting with an A. A3266 is the WiFi M3 and A3267 is the Cellular M3.

The same number sits on the back of the tablet, in grey print under the word iPad. Take it to a bright window. That print is smaller than anything on a receipt.

Getting this right matters as much as the grade. The model number decides which price grid you're on. Wear decides which row of it you sit in.

We read that number off every iPad that arrives. A tablet quoted as the wrong generation gets a fresh quote, not a lower grade, and that's a slower way to get paid.

Run a fingernail across the glass, slowly, in decent light. If your nail rides over the marks, you're at Good. Good means light wear nobody spots at arm's length.

If your nail catches, the grade steps down. Marks you can feel but barely see are Average. Heavy wear you can feel is Fair.

A crack or a chip is a different answer. That's Faulty, front or back, however small it looks.

Yes, at the Faulty price. Any crack or chip grades the tablet Faulty, and so does a camera cover with a chip in it. Faulty is a real number here, not a polite no. A worn battery gets the same treatment.

We can't buy that one. A tablet with no power can't be tested, and your data can't be cleared off it. Send it anyway and we'll recycle it free, or post it back to you free.

Under 80 percent the tablet grades Faulty. Settings, then Battery, shows you the health figure on current software. Older software shows no figure at all. If yours doesn't have one, judge it by how long a charge lasts you.

At 80 percent or above, the battery changes nothing.

Now beats later. The steepest drop comes in the weeks after Apple ships the next Air, and that has been a spring event three years running.

Sitting in a drawer costs you too. The battery ages whether or not you use the tablet.

We quote them separately. WiFi and WiFi + Cellular are two different tablets to us, with their own number at every storage tier and every grade. Choose the one you own and the tool shows your figure. A Cellular 256GB in Good condition quotes at $295 today.

Not sure which you have? Look at the top edge of the back. Cellular models wear a smooth antenna band there and WiFi models don't. Settings, General, About also lists a cellular data number, on Cellular models only.

No. We don't purchase devices under financial obligations. An iPad on an installment plan, a lease, or any finance agreement stays with you until it's clear. Pay it off and we'll quote it like any other.

No, and two separate rules sit behind that.

Activation Lock has to be off. That one applies to every iPad we buy, WiFi and Cellular alike. Signing out of iCloud switches it off. Leave it on and we can't set the tablet up for its next owner, so we can't buy it.

The IMEI has to be clean as well, and only Cellular models have one. A WiFi iPad carries no IMEI at all, so there's nothing on it to block. On a Cellular tablet, an IMEI that's barred, reported lost or stolen, or blocked by a carrier ends the sale.

We run both checks the day your iPad arrives. Clear the iCloud sign-out yourself, and call your carrier about the IMEI if the tablet ever sat on a plan.

Keep them. Our price covers the tablet by itself, and accessories can't be paid for.

That goes for the Apple Pencil, the Magic Keyboard, the Smart Folio, cases, chargers and cables. Send the iPad on its own, padded so nothing sits against the glass.

Anything that arrives with it needs a second package to get home, which holds up your payment. A Pencil sells well on its own, and it fits the next iPad you buy.

Back it up first, to iCloud or a computer. Then sign out of iCloud so Find My goes off, and erase the tablet from Settings. Our Device Erasure Guides take you through it screen by screen.

Every device we buy is wiped to Department of Defense standards on arrival, however it reaches us.

We pay via gift card, PayPal, bank transfer, or check. Gift card averages about 3 percent more, because a lot of brands add a bonus. PayPal's instant, with PayPal's own 2.99 percent fee. Bank transfer takes 2 to 4 days, and a check takes 3 to 5.

The money leaves the same day we finish checking your tablet.