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SELL YOUR RAZER PHONE
A Razer Phone pays between $2 and $16. Nobody is retiring on that and we will not pretend otherwise. It came out in 2017 and it has been out of production for years. If yours is in a drawer, this is money you do not currently have, and the quote takes about a minute.
Most people call this a trade-in. We call it a Buyback. The reason the number is different is that we open the box and test the phone in our own building before we pay, rather than guessing from a photo.
The Razer Phone got there first on two things. It was the first phone with a 120Hz screen, two years ahead of everyone else, and it has two real speakers on the front, one above the display and one below, tuned with Dolby Atmos. The screen is the famous part. The speakers are the part that decides your grade.
So play something loud before you quote. Hold your ear near the top speaker, then near the bottom one, and listen for buzz, rattle, crackle, or one side plainly quieter than the other. Any audio fault at all grades the phone Faulty. A pair of front speakers means two things that can fail instead of one, and almost nobody tests the top one, because day to day it is only carrying phone calls.
The 120Hz panel is an LCD, which means it cannot burn in. There is no ghosted clock or navigation bar to hunt for on this phone, so skip that test entirely. What you are looking for on the glass is cracks, and any crack anywhere is Faulty.
Where to sell a used Razer Phone is a short list, because Razer only ever built two phones and then stopped. We still quote both, working or broken. If it will not power on we cannot buy it, but free recycling and a free return are both on the table.
LIVE PRICES
The used resale value of a Razer Phone runs from $2 to $16. Wear is the only thing that moves it.
Razer built this phone in one configuration, 8GB of memory with 64GB of storage, so there is one column and no storage question to answer. Every figure is pulled live from our own price feed.
| Comparison row | 64GB |
|---|---|
Brand New | $16 |
Flawless | $15 |
Good | $10 |
Average | $9 |
Fair | $6 |
Faulty | $2 |
HOW IT WORKS
There is only one storage size, so all you pick is the grade. Play a track through both front speakers first and listen to each one on its own, because an audio fault changes the answer. The Buyback price you accept is held for 14 days.
A prepaid USPS label comes to your email. Sign out of your Google account, erase the phone, and pack it with something soft around it. Keep the THX adapter, the charger and the box. None of them are priced in and none of them are needed.
We inspect within 48 hours of the phone landing here. Matches your description, and the money goes out the same day by gift card, PayPal, bank transfer or check. Every phone through this building gets a DoD-grade wipe, bought or recycled.
SPEC SHEET
This page is for the first Razer Phone, the 2017 one. If yours has a glass back with a Razer logo that lights up, you have the second one and it prices elsewhere.
| Razer's name for it | Razer Phone, the original |
|---|---|
| Year | 2017, on sale from November |
| Display | 5.72-inch IPS LCD, 1440 by 2560, 120Hz. An LCD, so burn-in cannot happen. |
| Chip | Snapdragon 835 |
| Memory | 8GB |
| Storage we buy | 64GB, the only version Razer built |
| Battery | 4000 mAh |
| Speakers | Two front-facing stereo speakers, one above the screen and one below, tuned with Dolby Atmos |
| Headphone jack | None. Razer put a THX USB-C adapter in the box instead, and it is not priced into any grade. |
| Fingerprint reader | In the side power button. It has to read your finger. |
| Body | Aluminum, flat sided, squared off corners |
| Back | Matte metal with a plain Razer logo that does not light up |
| Carrier | Razer sold this phone unlocked and direct, and unlocked is what we price here. |
| Color | Color has never moved the price on this model. |
RAZER PHONE BUYBACK QUESTIONS
Most of these are eight years old and have been carried, so Fair is where a lot of them land. Fair means heavy wear you can feel when you drag a fingernail across it, with no crack and no chip anywhere, and it pays $6. Wear you can see but cannot feel is Average at $9. A sealed one nobody ever switched on pays $16. The quote tool at the top of this page gives you the figure for yours.
Turn it over. The first Razer Phone has a matte metal back and a flat Razer logo that just sits there. The second one has a glass back and the logo lights up in color. Two more giveaways: the Razer Phone 2 charges wirelessly and the first one does not, and the second one is rated IP67 against water while the first is not rated at all. If you are holding the newer one, our sell your Razer Phone 2 page has its own prices.
Turn the volume most of the way up and play music with some bass in it. Cup your hand behind the phone so the sound comes back at you, then listen to the speaker above the screen on its own, and the one below the screen on its own. You want two clean sources at roughly equal volume. Buzzing, crackling, a rattle at high volume, or one speaker that has clearly given up all count as an audio fault, and an audio fault grades the phone Faulty. Test the earpiece side properly, because it spends its life doing phone calls and quietly gets worse without anyone noticing.
No. That 120Hz panel is an LCD, and burn-in only happens on OLED. You can skip the white screen test that other Android pages ask for. If something is stuck on your display no matter what is showing, that is a broken panel rather than burn-in, and a broken panel grades Faulty the same way any other failed part does.
Yes, at $2. Any crack or chip, front, back or camera lens cover, puts the phone in Faulty. It does not matter that the screen still works or that the crack is in a corner nobody looks at. Pick Faulty when you quote, describe it honestly, and the figure you see is the figure you get paid.
That is Faulty too. On Android phones we work from one principle rather than a list: if something on the phone does not work, the phone is Faulty. Volume keys that no longer click, a power button with the fingerprint reader in it that will not read your thumb, a USB-C port that only charges when you hold the cable at an angle, a camera that will not focus. All the same answer. It is still a price, just a lower one.
Not by itself. We have no battery percentage rule on Android phones, so there is no health screen to go looking for and no number to hit. A 4000 mAh battery in a 2017 phone will not last the way it used to and that is expected. The only time the battery touches your grade is when it has actually failed, meaning it will not charge or the phone shuts off with charge showing, and then it is a functionality fault like any other.
Keep all of it. The Razer Phone has no headphone jack, so Razer included a THX USB-C dongle in the box, and owners often assume that dongle is part of the phone. It is not priced into any grade, and neither is the charger or the packaging. Nothing is required in the box except the phone. Sending extras just gives them a chance to get lost.
We cannot buy a phone that will not power up. Two reasons, and both are practical. We cannot test what we cannot switch on, and we cannot confirm your data is gone. So there is no price for that one. There is still something we can do with it: mail it in on the free label and we will recycle it at no cost, wiped to DoD standards on the way. Want it back instead, that is free as well.
Not while there is a balance on it. A phone still running on an installment plan or a lease counts as being under a financial obligation, and we do not purchase devices under financial obligations. It is not a permanent no. Settle it, own the phone outright, then quote it here like anything else.
No on both. A Google account lock, sometimes called FRP, has to be cleared before the phone leaves you, and signing out of your account then erasing the phone is what clears it. A locked phone cannot be bought at any grade and simply comes back to you. Separately, the IMEI has to be clean. Anything reported lost or stolen, or blocked by a carrier, fails that check and we have to turn it down.
Razer sold this phone unlocked and direct, so the prices on this page are the unlocked ones and that is the version almost everyone has. Quote it as unlocked. If yours came through a carrier, mail it in anyway and we will check it here. No carrier version of this phone pays above the unlocked figure in the table.
Not on a 2017 gaming phone, no. Carriers reserve their real offers for recent flagships they can resell quickly, and most will not take this model at all. Where they do, the payment usually arrives as a bill credit split over 24 months, which means you only see the full value if you stay put for two years. What we send is money, on the day the phone clears inspection. Compare the two anyway. If theirs wins, take theirs.
Settings, then System, then Reset options, then Erase all data. Sign out of your Google account before you run it, because that is the step that lifts the lock. Photos, messages and saved passwords are erased and cannot be recovered. Our erase your device page walks through it screen by screen. We also run a DoD-grade wipe when the phone arrives, on every device, including the ones we recycle.
Four ways, and you choose at checkout. Gift card, emailed, and it works out about 3 percent better than the rest because the brands add a bonus. PayPal, instant, with PayPal's 2.99 percent fee taken off. Bank transfer, 2 to 4 days. Check in the mail, 3 to 5 days. All four go out the same day your phone clears inspection. If you are sending a sealed Brand New phone, PayPal is the only option on that one.
One storage size, so all you pick is the grade. About a minute of your time, and the price holds for 14 days.
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