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Ten years. Same Phoenix team.
SELL YOUR PIXEL 6
A Pixel 6 is worth between $8 and $74. Those are small numbers and we are not going to dress them up. It is a 2021 phone, and this is still real money for something living in a drawer. Most people call it a trade-in. We call it a Buyback, and we pay it as a gift card, a PayPal payment, a bank transfer or a check.
The thing most likely to move a Pixel 6 down the table is not a scratch. It is burn-in, and burn-in grades a phone Faulty on its own. This screen is OLED, it has been on for five years, and the same shapes have been sitting in the same pixels the whole time: the status bar across the top, the clock on the lock screen, the bar or the pill at the bottom.
Here is the test, and it takes two minutes. Turn auto brightness off and push the brightness all the way up. Find a plain white image, open it full screen, and look at the phone in a dim room. Then, still on the white screen, turn the phone sideways into landscape. Everything the phone is actually drawing moves when you rotate it. A ghost of the clock or the status bar does not move, because it is worn into the panel. Anything that stays put is burn-in.
Three things are not burn-in, and it would be a shame to grade yourself down for them. A single dot stuck on one color is a dead pixel, not burn-in. A slight green or blue cast when you tilt the phone is how OLED behaves off-angle, on every one of these. And an image that fades away after a few minutes is temporary retention rather than damage.
Fair is the honest lead on a phone this age: heavy wear you can feel with a fingernail, but no cracks and no chips. Plenty of Pixel 6s are exactly that, and the difference between Fair and Faulty on this model is worth more than the difference between the two storage sizes.
Google's five years of updates on the Pixel 6 run out in October 2026. The phone will still work. Its price will keep falling. Shipping is free in both directions, we cannot buy one that will not power on, and a dead one can be recycled free instead with a full wipe. Before it leaves, erase it and take your Google account off it.
LIVE PRICES
The used resale value of a Pixel 6 runs from $8 for a cracked 128GB up to $74 for a sealed 256GB. A used 256GB in Good condition is $55. With burn-in it becomes $11, which is what makes the screen check worth doing.
Two storage sizes and six grades. Every figure is unlocked and pulled live from our own feed.
| Comparison row | 128GB | 256GB |
|---|---|---|
Brand New | $58 | $74 |
Flawless | $55 | $70 |
Good | $40 | $55 |
Average | $34 | $47 |
Fair | $24 | $33 |
Faulty | $8 | $11 |
HOW IT WORKS
Choose 128GB or 256GB, then the carrier, then the grade. Do the white screen and landscape check first, because burn-in is the one fault on this model that is easy to miss and expensive to miss. If you do not know the carrier, it is whoever bills you, or nobody if the phone came from the Google Store. Accept a price and it is held for 14 days.
We email a prepaid USPS label. Remove your Google account in Settings, Passwords and accounts before you erase the phone in Settings, System, Reset options. Doing it the other way round leaves the phone locked to you and unsellable until you sign in again. Take out the SIM, leave the tray, and keep the cable and case. Wrap it in something soft; the box you use does not matter to us.
Your Pixel 6 gets checked by hand within 48 hours of arriving, screen included, on a white field like the one you used. If it matches, the money leaves the same day. If it does not, we send you what we found and the new number, and you can say no and have it back free. Everything that arrives here is wiped to Department of Defense standards, sold or recycled.
SPEC SHEET
Google prints the model code on the box and not on the phone. Settings, About phone, Model is where to read it now. The two US codes are below.
| Google's name for it | Pixel 6 |
|---|---|
| Year | 2021 |
| Model numbers we buy | G9S9B and GB7N6, the two US codes. A GR1YH is the same phone from another region. |
| Display | 6.4 inch OLED, 2400 by 1080, 90Hz, flat, Gorilla Glass Victus |
| Chip | Google Tensor, Google's first |
| Storage we buy | 128GB and 256GB |
| Rear cameras | Two, in a glass bar across the back. A 50MP main and a 12MP ultrawide |
| Front camera | 8MP |
| Battery | 4614mAh. There is no battery percentage rule, see the questions below |
| Burn-in | Grades the phone Faulty. Test it before you choose a grade |
| Weight | 207 grams |
| Water resistance | IP68 |
| Charging port | USB-C, plus wireless charging |
| Software support | Five years from October 2021, so updates end in October 2026 |
| Stylus | None. Pixels have never come with one |
| Biometrics | Fingerprint reader under the screen. No face unlock on this generation |
| SIM | Nano-SIM tray and eSIM |
| IMEI | Has to be clean, with no block and nothing owed on it |
| Colors | Stormy Black, Sorta Seafoam and Kinda Coral, all the same price |
PIXEL 6 BUYBACK QUESTIONS
A 256GB in Good condition is $55. In Fair condition it is $33. A 128GB with a cracked screen is $8. Use the quote tool at the top of the page for your exact phone and carrier.
Honestly, the numbers are small. The whole grid on this page runs from $8 to $74, and most phones land in the middle of it. What tips it is that a drawer pays nothing, the phone loses value every month, and its security updates stop in October 2026. Postage costs you nothing either way, and if it turns out to be worth almost nothing we will recycle it free rather than talk you into a sale.
Brightness to maximum with auto brightness off, a plain white image open full screen, in a dim room. Look at the top strip where the status bar lives and the bottom strip where the navigation bar or gesture pill lives, since those are the shapes that never move. Then rotate the phone into landscape while the white image is still up. Live pixels rearrange when you rotate. A ghost does not, because it is worn into the panel. If a faint clock, a battery icon or a bar stays where it was, that is burn-in, and burn-in grades the phone Faulty.
On a 256GB it takes the phone from $55 in Good condition down to $11. That is the single biggest drop available on this model, which is why it is worth two minutes with a white screen before you pick a grade rather than finding out at inspection.
No. That is how OLED panels behave when you look at them off-angle, and every Pixel 6 does it. A single dot stuck on one color is not burn-in either, it is a dead pixel. Neither one is what we are looking for. Burn-in is a shape that stays in place when the picture behind it changes.
The Pixel 6 has a flat screen and two lenses in the camera bar. The Pixel 6 Pro has glass that curves over the long edges and three lenses, the extra one being a 4x telephoto. The Pixel 6 is 6.4 inches, the Pro 6.7. In Settings, About phone, Model, a US Pixel 6 reads G9S9B or GB7N6.
Yes, at the Faulty price, which is $11 on a 256GB. Any crack or chip does it, on the screen, on the back glass or on the glass over the cameras, and it applies whether or not the phone still works. Faulty is a price on this page rather than a rejection, so say what is wrong and take the number.
No, and there is no equivalent rule to look for. Android phones are not graded on a battery percentage here, and a Pixel does not report one anyway. If the battery has failed to the point where the phone cannot be used normally, that is a functionality problem and the phone is Faulty. Otherwise the battery does not enter into it.
Slow is not broken. This model's reader was famously unhurried from the day it launched, and being slow does not change your grade. What does change it is a reader that no longer works, since anything that has stopped working grades the phone Faulty. Delete your saved prints in Settings, Security and privacy and add one again. If it will not take a new print at all, the reader has failed.
Yes, and unlocked pays the most on this phone at both sizes and every grade. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon versions all come in lower. Pick the network that actually bills you, or Unlocked if the phone came from the Google Store, because the lock is checked when the phone arrives.
No. While money is owed on it, through installments or a lease, the phone sits under a financial obligation and we cannot buy it. Pay it off and it quotes like any other Pixel 6.
Then it is not something we can buy, at any grade. A blacklisted or carrier blocked IMEI is dead to the next owner. A phone that still asks for the old Google account after a factory reset is locked by Google and only the account holder can clear it. Sign out before you reset and you never meet either problem.
We will not buy it, because a phone with no power cannot be tested and your data cannot be removed from it. Recycling is free and includes the wipe, and a free return is there if you would rather keep it. Say which you want when you send it.
Both are US Pixel 6 codes and both quote the same, so it makes no difference which one you have. Read it in Settings, About phone, Model, since Google puts the code on the box rather than on the phone. A GR1YH is the same phone sold in other regions and we buy it too.
Remove the Google account first, in Settings, Passwords and accounts. Then Settings, System, Reset options, Erase all data. That order is what leaves the phone clean for the next owner. There are fuller instructions on our erase page. When it gets here we wipe it again to Department of Defense standards, so your photos, messages and saved passwords are erased and cannot be recovered.
Check the screen, pick your grade, get the number. It holds for 14 days.
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