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Ten years. Same Phoenix team.
SELL YOUR PIXEL 3 XL
A Pixel 3 XL pays between $2 and $19. Small money for a 2018 phone, and we would rather say so than talk around it. The quote takes a minute, the shipping is on us, and the price you accept is held for 14 days.
Most people call it a trade-in. We call it a Buyback, and the difference is that a person checks your phone by hand and tells you what they found.
The Pixel 3 XL is the only Pixel Google ever gave a notch, and that notch is why this page spends its time on your screen. The cutout pushes the clock hard into the left corner and the battery and signal icons hard into the right, and they sit in those same corners, unmoved, for years. This is an OLED panel. OLED wears where the picture never changes.
So look there first. Turn the brightness all the way up, go into a dim room, and fill the screen with a plain mid gray image. A ghost of the clock or the icons will show up on gray long before it shows up on anything else. Burn-in grades Faulty here, however well the rest of the phone works, so it is worth ten seconds before you pick a grade rather than after.
If it is clean, good. If it is not, Faulty is still a row with a number in it. And if you want to sell a used Pixel 3 XL that is cracked rather than burned, that lands in the same place. The only phone we cannot buy is one that will not power on, because we cannot test it or clear your data off it, and that one we will recycle for free instead.
LIVE PRICES
The used resale value of a Pixel 3 XL runs from $2 to $19, depending on storage and how hard it has been lived with.
These figures come out of our own price feed as the page loads. They are what you will be offered today, not an estimate.
| Comparison row | 64GB | 128GB |
|---|---|---|
Brand New | $16 | $19 |
Flawless | $15 | $18 |
Good | $10 | $13 |
Average | $8 | $10 |
Fair | $6 | $8 |
Faulty | $2 | $3 |
HOW IT WORKS
Choose 64GB or 128GB, choose unlocked or your carrier, then choose the grade. Do the gray screen check before you decide, because burn-in is the one thing on this model that people miss and it changes the answer. Accept the Buyback price and we hold it for 14 days.
A prepaid USPS label arrives by email. Take your Google account off the phone first, then factory reset it. Do it the other way round and the phone lands here FRP locked, which we cannot buy. The cable, the case and the original box add nothing, so keep them.
Your Pixel 3 XL is inspected by hand within 48 hours of arriving. Matching what you told us means payment the same day, by gift card, PayPal, bank transfer or check, whichever you picked. Every phone through this building gets a Department of Defense grade wipe, bought or recycled.
THE DETAILS
Settings, About phone, Model gives you the model number. It is not printed anywhere on the phone itself.
| Released | Fall 2018 |
|---|---|
| Model numbers | G013C and G013D |
| Screen | 6.3 inch OLED with a notch, 2960 by 1440 |
| The notch | Original Google design, not damage, not a fault |
| Storage sold | 64GB and 128GB |
| Memory | 4GB |
| Fingerprint reader | On the back, below the camera |
| Headphone jack | None |
| Back panel | Glass, matte on the lower two thirds |
| Wireless charging | Yes |
| Water resistance | IP68 |
| Battery rule | Android has none, so no percentage to look up |
| A ghost of the clock or icons | Burn-in, which is Faulty |
| Any crack or chip | Faulty, even if everything works |
| Google account or FRP lock | Not buyable until it is cleared |
| Best paying carrier option | Unlocked |
PIXEL 3 XL BUYBACK QUESTIONS
Two things decide it, storage and wear. A 128GB in Good condition, meaning light wear you cannot see at arm's length, is $13. The same grade at 64GB is $10. A 128GB with a crack in it is $3. Your exact number is one minute away in the quote tool at the top.
Yes, at the Faulty price. Burn-in is one of the things that sends a phone to Faulty no matter how well it works, and on a Pixel 3 XL it is the most likely fault you have, because the notch parks the clock and the battery icon in two corners that never change for the life of the phone.
Pick Faulty when you quote. Nobody will argue with you about it later, and there is no negotiation when it lands, because you already told us.
Brightness to maximum, room as dark as you can make it, then fill the whole screen with a plain mid gray image. Gray shows uneven pixel wear sooner than white does. Look either side of the notch for a ghost of the clock, the battery or the signal bars, and along the bottom for the navigation buttons. Two things people mistake for burn-in and should not: a single stuck pixel is not burn-in, and the color drifting slightly when you tilt the phone is just how OLED behaves off angle.
The notch answers it in a second. The 3 XL has a deep cutout at the top of the screen for the two front cameras. The Pixel 3 has none, just a flat bar with a speaker in it. Size settles any doubt: 6.3 inches against 5.5, and the XL is noticeably heavier in the hand. The Pixel 3 page has its own prices if that turns out to be the one you have.
Not at all. It is how Google built the phone, so it is not damage and it is not a fault. What does matter is the glass around it. Run a fingernail across the top edge of the screen: a chip or a crack near the cutout counts the same as any other crack and takes the phone to Faulty.
Anything on it that does not work. That is the whole rule, not a checklist. A loose charging port, a speaker that rattles, a fingerprint reader that no longer recognizes you, a volume button that sticks, a camera that will not focus. If a part of the phone has stopped doing its job, it is Faulty. Cracks, chips and burn-in join it there even when the phone runs perfectly.
Yes. Front glass, back glass, camera glass, it makes no difference which: any crack or chip means Faulty. A 64GB in that state pays $2 and a 128GB pays $3. Select Faulty at the quote step and the number you are shown is the number you are paid.
No. Android phones have no battery health rule here, so there is no screen to go and check and no number to worry about. A battery that has actually failed gets caught by the same rule as anything else that has stopped working, and that is the only route by which the battery touches your grade at all.
Flawless is no marks at all. Good is light wear that vanishes when you hold the phone at arm's length. Average is light wear you can see but cannot feel with a fingernail. Fair is heavy wear you can feel, still with no cracks or chips. Faulty covers every crack, every chip, burn-in, and anything that does not work. Choose honestly and the inspection is a formality.
Yes. Pick your carrier instead of unlocked when you quote and you get that carrier's price. Unlocked pays the most on this model at every grade, so it is worth having the phone released before you sell if that is quick to arrange. A carrier lock is not the lock that stops a sale. A Google account lock is.
The phone arrives FRP locked and we have to mail it back. Google's protection ties the handset to the last account signed into it, so a reset alone does not release it. Take the account off in Settings, Passwords and accounts, then reset from Settings, System, Reset options, Erase all data. That order matters. Our own Department of Defense grade wipe runs on arrival, but it cannot get past a lock you left on.
No, not until it is. A handset sitting on an installment plan or a lease is still tied to that agreement, and we do not purchase devices under financial obligations. Settle the balance and the phone is yours to sell, at exactly the same price as anyone else's.
On a phone this old, usually there is no offer at all. Where there is one it comes as bill credit spread over two or three years and tied to a new line, so it is not money you can spend. What we send is cash, by the method you choose, the same day the phone clears inspection. Free shipping both ways if you change your mind.
Pick one of four at checkout. Gift card, emailed, and worth about 3 percent more than the others because the brands top it up. PayPal, instant, minus PayPal's own 2.99 percent fee. Bank transfer, 2 to 4 days. Check in the mail, 3 to 5. Sealed Brand New phones are the single exception to the list: those go out by PayPal only.
It is a handful of dollars, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. Weigh it against the alternative. The phone is in a drawer, it is worth a little less every month, and getting it out of there costs you nothing but the walk to a mailbox. If it turns out to be beyond a price, we recycle it free and wipe it either way, which is still better than a landfill.
Storage, carrier, grade. A minute of your time, and the number is locked for 14 days once you accept it.
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