Sell your Pixel 4a for cash

Wear decides it, because there is only one storage size. Heavy wear you can feel with a fingernail, but no cracks anywhere, pays $6. Tidy it up to light wear you cannot see from arm's length and it is $10. Cracked, it is $2. Run yours through the quote tool at the top of the page for the exact figure.

Fair is heavy wear you can feel. Deep scuffs on the plastic, worn corners, scratches your fingernail catches on. What Fair is not is broken. The moment there is a crack or a chip, or something on the phone stops working, it is Faulty instead.

The grades above it: Average is light wear you can see but cannot feel. Good is light wear you cannot see from arm's length. Flawless is no marks at all. Brand New is sealed and never switched on.

Plastic hides scratches better than glass does, which is why the fingernail matters more than the eye on this phone.

Then the phone is Faulty, because a fingerprint reader is a part and a part that no longer works is Faulty on any Android. Do not accept that verdict too quickly though. Clean the circle with a dry cloth, take the case off in case its cutout is sitting proud of the sensor, delete your saved fingerprint and add it again. Then try five unlocks in a row. Most Pixel 4a readers that seem dead are simply dirty or badly enrolled, and fixing that takes a minute and moves you back up the table.

Count the lenses on the back. The Pixel 4a has one camera. The Pixel 4a 5G has two, sitting side by side in the same square window. The 4a is also noticeably smaller, 5.8 inches against 6.2. If yours has the pair of lenses, our sell your Pixel 4a 5G page has its own prices, and they are higher.

Yes. Any crack or chip puts the phone into Faulty, and Faulty is a price rather than a refusal. A cracked Pixel 4a pays $2. Pick Faulty when you quote, post it, and the figure does not change when we open the box. Sending a cracked phone in as though it were undamaged is the only version of this that goes wrong.

Open Settings, tap About phone, read the Model line. Those three numbers come from Google's own Pixel 4a safety and regulatory manual and they are regional versions of one phone. Whichever you have, it quotes on this page for the same amount.

Not on its own. There is no battery percentage rule on Android phones here. We will not ask you for a number, and there is no screen for you to go and read. A tired battery in a five year old phone is expected and it does not move the grade. The line it can cross is failure: a phone that switches itself off, or one that no longer charges at all, has something that has stopped working and that grades Faulty.

Yes. Google used an OLED panel here, and burn-in is Faulty. Test it in a dark room with the brightness high: fill the screen with a plain mid gray image and look for a ghost of the navigation bar, the clock or a keyboard shape sitting underneath. Gray shows uneven wear earlier than white does. A single stuck pixel is not burn-in, and neither is the color drifting when you tilt the phone off axis.

No, and here is the honest reason. If it will not power up we cannot test a single thing on it, and we cannot clear your data off it either. Putting a price on that would be a guess. Instead we will recycle it at no cost. Post it on a free label, we wipe it to Department of Defense standards and dispose of it properly. If you would rather have it back, the return is free as well.

Only once the balance is gone. A phone on an installment plan or a lease is under a financial obligation, and we do not purchase devices under financial obligations. Settle it with your carrier, then come back and quote it in the normal way.

We cannot buy either one, at any grade. A Pixel still tied to a Google account has factory reset protection running, which stops us setting it up or clearing it. A phone reported lost or stolen, blacklisted, or blocked by its carrier fails the same way. The fix for the first is entirely in your hands: remove the account and factory reset the phone before you post it.

Settings, then Passwords and accounts, and remove your Google account. Then Settings, System, Reset options, Erase all data. Taking the account off first is what disables factory reset protection. Your photos, messages and saved passwords are erased and they cannot be recovered. Our erase your device page walks through it with pictures. We wipe every phone again on arrival to Department of Defense standards, but yours needs to come off before it travels.

On a phone this old, rarely, and the shape of the offer is different anyway. Carriers pay in monthly bill credit, spread across two or three years, and it only works if you stay on the plan. We pay cash in one go, the day your phone clears inspection, and nothing is tied to it afterwards. Get both numbers, then choose. Ours is printed on this page in full.

You choose one of four at checkout. Gift card, emailed, and worth roughly 3 percent more because the brands add a bonus. PayPal, instant, minus PayPal's own 2.99 percent fee. Bank transfer, 2 to 4 days. Check in the post, 3 to 5. All four go out the same day the phone clears inspection. The only rule attached: sealed Brand New phones are paid by PayPal alone.

Keep all of it. None of it is priced into your quote, so it adds nothing and it can only get lost. The phone by itself is what we want.