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PIXEL 8 BUYBACK
A Pixel 8 Buyback runs from $26 to $184, set by capacity, wear and the network the phone is on. Those figures come out of the live price feed, not a guess, and they are the same ones the quote box will show you.
Most people call it a trade-in. We call it a Buyback, and the difference is what lands in your hand. A carrier gives you credit spread across your next two or three years of bills. We give you money once, by gift card, PayPal, bank transfer or check.
One thing decides more Pixel 8 grades than anything else, and almost nobody checks for it before they ship. It is burn-in. This phone has an OLED screen, it has had two years or more of the same clock, the same status bar icons and the same navigation bar sitting in the same pixels, and burn-in grades a phone Faulty no matter how well the rest of it works. There is a test further down that takes about a minute and does not need any equipment.
The rest is the part that makes people hesitate, which is putting a working phone in a box and handing it to a stranger. Free prepaid USPS label. Tracked from the first scan. Wiped to Department of Defense standard the day it lands. Checked by hand by a person who then tells you what they found. Free return if the answer is not one you like.
Inspection clears within 48 hours. Payment goes the same day it clears. Your price is held for 14 days.
LIVE PRICES
The used resale value of an unlocked Pixel 8 runs from $26 to $184. Capacity across the top, condition down the side.
Google sold the US Pixel 8 in 128GB and 256GB only, so there are two columns and there is no third one missing. If your storage screen reports 512GB or more, you are holding a Pro.
Prices track the market. The one you accept is locked for 14 days.
| Comparison row | 128GB | 256GB |
|---|---|---|
Brand New | $158 | $184 |
Flawless | $150 | $175 |
Good | $130 | $155 |
Average | $117 | $140 |
Fair | $78 | $93 |
Faulty | $26 | $31 |
HOW A BUYBACK WORKS
Pick 128GB or 256GB, pick the network, then pick the condition. Do the burn-in check below before you choose, because it is the one fault on this phone that hides in plain sight and it changes which row you belong in. An accurate description now is what makes the quoted number the paid number.
A prepaid USPS label arrives by email. Wrap the Pixel 8 in something soft so it does not rattle, box it, tape it and drop it off. You can follow the tracking the whole way. Keep the charger, the cable and the case. They add nothing to the price and we have no way to return them.
Someone opens the box and looks at the phone in person, including a full screen inspection under bright light for exactly the ghosting described on this page. We wipe it to Department of Defense standard, so your photos, messages and saved passwords are erased and cannot be recovered. Matching phones are paid the same day by gift card, PayPal, bank transfer or check. If we find something you did not describe, we tell you what it was and you can have the phone back for nothing.
SPEC SHEET
There is nothing printed on the back of a Pixel to tell you which one it is. The code is on the box. Read yours in Settings, About phone, Model.
| Google's name for it | Pixel 8 |
|---|---|
| US model numbers | GKWS6 and G9BQD |
| Released | October 12, 2023 |
| Screen | 6.2 inch OLED, 60Hz to 120Hz |
| Resolution | 1080 x 2400 |
| Screen burn-in | Possible on OLED. It grades the phone Faulty |
| Always-on display | Yes, and it is the usual cause |
| Rear cameras | Two: wide and ultrawide |
| Temperature sensor | No. That is the Pro only |
| Chip | Google Tensor G3 |
| Storage sold | 128GB and 256GB |
| Water and dust | IP68 |
| Weight | 187 g |
| Front and back | Gorilla Glass Victus, aluminum frame |
| Launch colors | Obsidian, Hazel, Rose |
| Software support | Google promised updates into 2030 |
| Battery rule | There is not one on an Android phone |
| Stylus | None. No Pixel takes a pen |
| What to send | The phone on its own |
PIXEL 8 BUYBACK QUESTIONS
Capacity, wear and network set it. A 256GB unlocked Pixel 8 in Average condition is $140 today. Move up to Good and it is $155. Find burn-in or a crack and it grades Faulty, which is $31.
That last drop is the reason this page spends so long on the screen. It is the single biggest step in the grid and it is the one people miss.
This takes a minute and it is worth every second of it. Burn-in grades a phone Faulty, and a Pixel 8 that has spent two years with the always-on display running is a real candidate.
Turn the brightness all the way up. Go somewhere dim. Open a plain white image and make it fill the screen with nothing on top of it. Now do the part that most guides leave out: turn the phone sideways into landscape. Everything that burns into an Android phone burns in portrait, so in landscape those ghosts sit sideways across the middle of a plain white field, which is where your eye actually catches them instead of dismissing them as edge shadow. Look for a faint bar of clock and battery icons, and a strip of navigation buttons.
Then swap the white image for a mid gray one and repeat. Gray shows uneven pixel wear that white washes out. If a shape is still there when the picture behind it is not, that is burn-in and the phone is Faulty. It still has a price in the table above, and you should take it rather than hope.
Three things that are not burn-in, so nobody grades themselves down for free. A single dead or stuck pixel is not burn-in. A green or blue tint when you tilt the screen is how OLED panels look off-angle. And an image that fades away after a few minutes was temporary retention, not damage. If you want the clock out of the way while you test, switch off the always-on display in Settings, Display, Lock screen.
Count the lenses in the camera bar. Two means Pixel 8, three means Pro. The Pixel 8 screen is 6.2 inches against the Pro's 6.7, and Google never sold a US Pixel 8 above 256GB, so a 512GB or 1TB reading in Settings rules this phone out on its own.
The model number is the answer that cannot be argued with: GKWS6 or G9BQD is a Pixel 8. If you have the bigger one, the Pixel 8 Pro Buyback page is where you want to be. If you are not sure whether you have a Pixel 8 or the cheaper 8a, the Pixel 8a page has the separator on it.
Yes, and it grades Faulty either way. Any crack or any chip, front, back, frame or a lens cover in the camera bar, puts the phone in the Faulty row, and it does that even if the phone works perfectly and looks fine from a foot away.
Peel any screen protector off before you decide. A cracked protector over an undamaged screen is the most common false alarm we see, and it costs people real money when they grade themselves Faulty for a $6 piece of glass they could have removed.
It is a principle rather than a list, and that is deliberate. If something on the phone does not work, the phone is Faulty. Not one grade lower, Faulty.
So a speaker that crackles, a mic nobody can hear you on, a button that has stopped clicking, a fingerprint reader that never recognizes you, a camera that will not focus, a charging port that only works at one angle. All the same answer. Ring the phone, record a voice memo and play it back, press every button, tap all four corners of the screen, plug the cable in and wiggle it. Five minutes and you will know.
On top of that, glass. Any crack or chip is Faulty on its own, and so is burn-in.
No. There is no battery percentage rule on any Android phone we buy. We do not ask for a number, there is no 80 percent line to fall under, and there is no battery health screen on a Pixel for you to go looking for.
The only way a battery touches the grade is by failing outright, and at that point it is covered by the same principle as everything else. A Pixel 8 that needs a top-up by dinner is not Faulty. It is a three year old phone.
By a lot, and unlocked pays most at both capacities and every grade. A 256GB in Good condition is $155 unlocked, against $106 on AT&T, $104 on Verizon, $98 on T-Mobile and $78 on anything else.
That gap is bigger than a whole grade of wear, so quote the network the phone is really on. If it is locked and the account behind it is settled, ask the carrier to release it first and then come back.
Not for money. A phone that will not power on cannot be tested, and more importantly your data cannot be cleared off it, which is not something we are willing to skip. We will recycle it for free, wiped to the same standard as every other device, or send it back to you for free. Say which you would prefer.
No, not while the balance is open. Anything on a carrier installment plan or a lease is a device under a financial obligation and we do not purchase those. Settle it, and then it quotes the same as any other Pixel 8.
Either one stops the sale outright, at every grade, and there is nothing we can do at our end.
A Pixel that arrives still tied to a Google Account has factory reset protection running, which means the phone can only be set up by the person who owns that account. Remove the account, then erase the phone, and it clears. A blocked IMEI is different: if a phone has been reported lost or stolen, or blocked by a carrier over an unpaid bill, we cannot buy it at all. Dial *#06# to see your IMEI, and check it before you go to the trouble of shipping.
Both are US Pixel 8s and both quote exactly the same, so this one is genuinely nothing to worry about. Google lists the pair together in its own US regulatory paperwork. Read yours in Settings, About phone, Model. What matters is that neither of them is G1MNW, which is a Pixel 8 Pro.
No. Obsidian, Hazel and Rose all pay the same, and so does the Mint one people forget existed. Only capacity, condition and network move the number.
It is, and here is the honest shape of it. The top of this grid is $184 and the bottom is $26. That is not iPhone money and we are not going to dress it up as iPhone money.
What is worth knowing is that the Pixel 8 was the first phone Google promised seven years of updates on, which runs into 2030, so this is not a phone that has been abandoned by its maker. It is still wanted by someone. It is also still losing a little value every month it sits in a drawer, which is the actual competition for this page.
Two steps and the order matters. First remove the account: Settings, Passwords and accounts, tap the Google Account, Remove account. Then erase: Settings, System, Reset options, Erase all data. Doing it the other way round can leave the reset protection in place. There are pictures of every step on our erase guide.
Every device we receive is wiped to Department of Defense standard on arrival regardless, including the ones we end up recycling instead of buying. Your erase and ours are belt and braces, not either or.
Four options. Gift card, emailed, and it averages about 3 percent more because the brands add their own bonus on top. PayPal, instant, with PayPal's 2.99 percent fee taken by PayPal rather than by us. Bank transfer in 2 to 4 days. Check in 3 to 5. Anything graded Brand New is PayPal only.
As for the carrier: their trade-in headline is usually bill credit, paid to you in monthly slices over two or three years, and it usually requires you to open or upgrade a line to qualify. A Buyback is one payment, in money that works anywhere, with nothing attached to it. Put the two side by side on what actually reaches you and then decide.
Capacity, network, condition. Run the screen check first, then take about a minute for a real number that holds for 14 days.
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