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PIXEL FOLD BUYBACK
A Pixel Fold Buyback runs from $32 to $225, set by capacity, wear and the network it is on. Those figures are pulled live from the same feed the quote box reads.
Most people call it a trade-in. We call it a Buyback, and the difference is what you end up holding. A carrier gives you credit toward future bills. We give you money, once, in whichever of four ways suits you.
This is Google's first foldable and it is a different shape from the ones that came after it. Closed, it is short and wide, 139.7mm by 79.5mm, with a 5.8 inch cover screen that is almost as wide as it is tall. People called it the passport. Every Pixel fold since has gone tall and narrow instead, so if the phone in your hand looks like a small paperback rather than a normal phone, you are on the right page.
That shape is not trivia here. It changes what counts as a fault, and there is a two minute hands-on check further down that tells you which grade you are in. Start with the one thing that worries most sellers and should not: the crease down the middle of the inner screen is normal. It is where the panel bends. We do not grade it, we do not deduct for it, and nobody here will call it damage.
The rest works like any other Buyback. Free prepaid USPS label, tracking from the first scan, a Department of Defense grade wipe when it lands, a hand inspection by a person who tells you what they found, a free return if you want the phone back. Inspection clears within 48 hours and payment goes the same day.
LIVE PRICES
The used resale value of an unlocked Pixel Fold runs from $32 to $225. Capacity across the top, condition down the side.
Google sold the Pixel Fold in 256GB and 512GB, so those are the two columns. There was never a 128GB one.
Prices move with the market and the one you accept is held for 14 days.
| Comparison row | 256GB | 512GB |
|---|---|---|
Brand New | $185 | $225 |
Flawless | $185 | $225 |
Good | $160 | $200 |
Average | $144 | $180 |
Fair | $96 | $120 |
Faulty | $32 | $40 |
HOW A BUYBACK WORKS
Run the three hinge checks on this page before you pick anything, because on a folding phone the hinge decides more grades than the paintwork does. Then choose 256GB or 512GB, the network, and the condition. The crease does not enter into it.
We email a prepaid USPS label. Send the Fold closed, not open, and pad it on both faces so nothing presses on the inner screen in transit. Box it, tape it, drop it off, and follow the tracking. Leave the charger and the case behind. They are not priced in and we cannot return them.
A person opens the phone by hand, works the hinge through its full travel, and inspects both screens and the whole body. We wipe it to Department of Defense standard, so your photos, messages and saved passwords are erased and cannot be recovered. If it matches your description, payment goes out the same day by gift card, PayPal, bank transfer or check. If it does not, we tell you exactly what we found and the phone comes back to you free.
SPEC SHEET
Google prints the model number on the box, never on the phone. Read yours in Settings, About phone, Model.
| Google's name for it | Pixel Fold |
|---|---|
| US model numbers | G9FPL and G0B96 |
| Released | June 27, 2023 |
| Cover screen | 5.8 inch OLED, 120Hz, unusually wide |
| Inner screen | 7.6 inch folding OLED, plastic surface |
| Screen burn-in | Possible on both panels. It grades the phone Faulty |
| The crease | Normal. Not a fault and not graded |
| Rear cameras | Three: wide, ultrawide, 5x telephoto |
| Chip | Google Tensor G2 |
| Storage sold | 256GB and 512GB |
| Folded thickness | 12.1 mm |
| Weight | 283 g |
| Size open | 139.7 x 158.7 x 5.8 mm |
| Water and dust | IPX8. Water rated, not dust rated |
| Front and back | Gorilla Glass Victus, aluminum frame |
| Launch colors | Obsidian and Porcelain |
| 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, closed |
PIXEL FOLD BUYBACK QUESTIONS
A 512GB unlocked Pixel Fold with heavy wear but no cracks is $120 today. Tidy it up to light wear and it is $180. With a crack or a hinge that has given up, which both grade Faulty, it is $40.
That is the honest shape of a three year old foldable. The numbers are not what the phone cost, and we are not going to pretend otherwise, but they are real and they are paid the same day.
No. Not a fault, not damage, not a deduction. Every folding screen has a crease, because that is the line the panel bends along, and a Pixel Fold that has been opened and closed a few thousand times will show it more than one that has sat in a drawer. Both grade the same.
You can see it, you can often feel it with a fingertip, and neither of those things changes your price. Do not grade yourself down for it and do not apologize for it in the description.
Three checks, about two minutes, and they matter more on this phone than anything cosmetic. A hinge that no longer works is a functionality problem, and on an Android any functionality problem grades the phone Faulty.
One, close it and sight down the long open edge, the one opposite the hinge, holding it up at eye level. A healthy Pixel Fold shuts flat, with the two halves meeting along their whole length at about 12mm thick. If the edge opens into a wedge, wider at the top than the bottom, the hinge is not sitting where it should.
Two, open it to roughly ninety degrees, stand it on a table like a little laptop and take your hands away. It should hold there. If it sags shut or flops open, the hinge has lost its grip and that is a fault.
Three, open and close it slowly next to your ear. Some sound is normal on a mechanism this size. A grind, a crunch, or a point part way through the travel where it catches and then releases is not.
Pass all three and the hinge is not your problem. Fail any one of them and describe it as Faulty, which still has a price above.
Both. They are two screens and each one carries the full set of rules on its own.
A crack in the 5.8 inch cover glass grades the phone Faulty. A crack in the 7.6 inch inner panel does the same. Burn-in on either one does the same again. A Fold with a perfect inner screen and a chipped cover screen is Faulty, and so is the reverse.
One thing to treat differently: the inner screen is not glass. It is a plastic surface with a factory protective layer bonded on top, so it marks in ways glass never would and it is much softer. Do not run a fingernail across it looking for scratches, because you can make one. Look at it under a light instead.
No. Leave it exactly where it is. On a Pixel Fold that layer is part of the display rather than a shop-fitted protector, and taking it off usually damages the panel underneath, which turns a phone you could have sold as Good into a Faulty one. If it is already peeling at a corner, leave that alone too and tell us in the description.
Burn-in grades the phone Faulty and both Pixel Fold panels are OLED, so run the check twice, once on the cover screen and once on the inner one. The full walkthrough, including the trick of rotating the phone into landscape so the ghosts sit sideways where your eye catches them, is on the Pixel 8 page and it applies here unchanged.
One thing specific to this phone: the cover screen is the one that has spent three years showing the same clock and the same status bar, because that is the screen people use for glances. It is the more likely of the two to have a mark on it, so give it the longer look.
The shape answers it before the model number does. The original Pixel Fold is the wide one: closed, it is 139.7mm tall and 79.5mm across, with a 5.8 inch cover screen so broad it feels like a small book. The Pixel 9 Pro Fold and everything after it are taller and narrower, and their cover screens look like an ordinary phone.
If you want it in writing, Settings, About phone, Model. G9FPL and G0B96 are the two US model numbers for the original Pixel Fold, both listed by Google in its own US regulatory paperwork for this phone. The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is GGH2X.
Worth knowing, because it catches people out: some third-party listings and marketplace pages have attached G9FPL to the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. That is wrong. Google's own documents put G9FPL on this phone.
Yes. A crack anywhere grades it Faulty, and Faulty is a price in the table above rather than a refusal. Cover glass, inner panel, the back glass or any of the three lens covers, all the same answer, and it holds even if the phone still works perfectly.
Describe it as Faulty from the start. A cracked foldable described as Good is the one that stalls at inspection, and nobody gains anything from that.
The rule is a principle, not a list: if something on this phone has stopped working, it is Faulty. Not one grade down, Faulty. That covers a dead speaker, a mic nobody can hear you through, a fingerprint reader on the side that no longer reads, a camera that will not focus, a button that has stopped clicking, and a charging port that only works when you hold the cable at an angle.
It also covers the hinge, which is why the hinge checks above sit near the top of this page. And separately from all of that, any crack or chip is Faulty on its own, and so is burn-in on either screen.
It does not. There is no battery percentage rule on any Android phone we buy. No number to hit, no 80 percent line, no battery health screen on a Pixel to look for. Sellers arriving from the iPhone side expect one and there is not one here.
A three year old foldable is driving two screens off one battery, so a shorter day is exactly what you would expect and it changes nothing about your grade. A battery that has failed outright is different, but only because a part that has stopped working makes the phone Faulty, same as anything else.
It changes it more than a grade of wear does, and unlocked pays most everywhere on this product. A 512GB in Good condition is $200 unlocked, against $136 on AT&T, $136 on Verizon, $128 on T-Mobile and $100 on anything else.
The order below unlocked is not the same at both capacities, so read the number for your own combination rather than assuming your carrier sits where it did last time. At 256GB, T-Mobile is the one that leads the carrier group. Whatever the phone is genuinely locked to is the one to pick.
A Fold that will not power on cannot be tested and, more importantly, cannot have your data cleared off it. We do not buy those. Free recycling, wiped to the same standard as everything else, or a free return, whichever you prefer.
A Fold that will not open at all is a hinge that has failed completely, and that is Faulty rather than a refusal, so it still has a price. If it will not open and will not power on either, it goes back to the paragraph above.
A phone still on a carrier installment plan or a lease is under a financial obligation and we cannot purchase it. Settle the balance and it quotes normally.
Both stop the sale entirely, at every grade. A Pixel that arrives still signed in carries factory reset protection, so it can only be set up by you and by nobody else. Remove the account, then erase the phone, in that order. An IMEI reported lost or stolen, or blocked by a carrier over money owed, is one we cannot buy in any condition. Dial *#06# to read yours and check it before the box goes anywhere.
No. Obsidian and Porcelain pay identically, and Google only made the two. Capacity, condition and network are the whole story.
Erase in this order: Settings, Passwords and accounts, tap your Google Account, Remove account, then Settings, System, Reset options, Erase all data. Account first, always, or the reset protection stays with the phone. Our erase guide has the steps with pictures. Everything that arrives here is also wiped to Department of Defense standard on the day it lands, including devices we recycle rather than buy.
Then pick your money: an emailed gift card, which averages about 3 percent more because the brands add a bonus; PayPal, instant, less PayPal's own 2.99 percent; a bank transfer in 2 to 4 days; or a check in 3 to 5. Anything graded Brand New is PayPal only. Against a carrier trade-in, the comparison worth making is not the headline. Theirs arrives as bill credit in monthly slices and usually needs a line upgrade to qualify. Ours arrives once, as money, with nothing attached.
Run the three hinge checks, pick your capacity, network and condition, and take a real number that holds for 14 days.
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