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SELL YOUR SONY XPERIA 1 III
A Sony Xperia 1 III pays between $25 and $216. That is a wide spread for one phone, and on this model the screen decides more of it than anything else does.
Most people call this a trade-in. We call it a Buyback. Same phone, different number, because ours comes from somebody here looking at it rather than from a lookup table.
The Xperia 1 III carries a 6.5 inch 4K screen running at 120Hz, in a 21:9 shape as wide as a cinema frame. It is the finest panel Sony ever put in a phone. It is also the reason to check this one properly before you pick a grade.
Almost nothing you watch is shot in 21:9. YouTube is 16:9. Most streaming is 16:9. Phone video from other people is taller than it is wide. So on a screen this shape, a black bar parks along the top of the picture and another parks along the bottom, and neither of them moves for as long as you watch. Sitting just above the top bar, the clock and the battery icon do not move either.
Hours of that, repeated across a few years, is how an OLED panel burns in. The pixels that never changed keep a faint print of what they were holding. Burn-in grades the phone Faulty here no matter how clean the glass is, so it is worth two minutes of your time.
Here is the test. Open a plain white image, turn the brightness right up, and hold the phone at arm's length. Then do the same with a plain mid gray image, which shows burn-in more readily than white does. You are looking for a ghost of the clock or the status icons near the top, and for two faint horizontal bands across the picture where the letterbox bars used to sit. If any of that is there, choose Faulty and the price you see is the price we pay.
There are two sizes of this phone, 256GB and 512GB, and the bigger one pays more at every single grade. Settings, then Storage, tells you which you have. Sony sold the Xperia 1 III unlocked and direct, and Unlocked is the option that pays here.
If you are working out where to sell a used Xperia 1 III, or hunting for somewhere that will buy a broken one, we do both. The only phone we cannot price is one that will not power on, because it cannot be tested and your data cannot be cleared off it. That one we will recycle for free, and the label is free either way.
LIVE PRICES
The used resale value of a Sony Xperia 1 III starts at $25 for a cracked 256GB and reaches $216 for a sealed 512GB. A 256GB one tops out at $185.
How much you can sell yours for depends on the storage size and on the wear. Every number in this table is pulled live from our own price feed, so it is the number the quote tool will give you.
| Comparison row | 256GB | 512GB |
|---|---|---|
Brand New | $185 | $216 |
Flawless | $176 | $206 |
Good | $126 | $171 |
Average | $110 | $149 |
Fair | $76 | $103 |
Faulty | $25 | $34 |
HOW IT WORKS
Pick 256GB or 512GB, pick Unlocked, then pick the grade. Run the white and gray screen test first, because burn-in is the fault most likely to be sitting on this particular phone and it is the one people miss. Accept a Buyback price and we hold it for 14 days.
A prepaid USPS label arrives by email. Remove your Google account from the phone, then erase it. That order is what keeps a factory reset lock from turning up here. Pop the SIM tray, take the SIM and the memory card out, and slide the empty tray back in. Chargers, cases and boxes stay at your house.
Someone checks your Xperia 1 III by hand within 48 hours of it arriving, screen included. If it matches your description, your money goes out that same day by gift card, PayPal, bank transfer or check. Every phone gets a Department of Defense grade wipe here, bought or recycled.
SPEC SHEET
The model number lives in Settings, About phone, and on the original box.
| Sony's name for it | Xperia 1 III, said as Xperia 1 mark three |
|---|---|
| Year | 2021 |
| Model number we buy | XQ-BC62, the US model |
| Display | 6.5 inch 4K HDR OLED, 3840 by 1644, 21:9, 120Hz |
| Screen glass | Gorilla Glass Victus on the front, Gorilla Glass 6 on the back |
| Chip | Snapdragon 888 |
| Memory | 12GB |
| Storage we buy | 256GB and 512GB. The 512GB pays more at every grade. |
| Rear cameras | Three 12MP cameras plus a depth sensor. A 24mm main, a 16mm ultrawide and a telephoto that switches between 70mm and 105mm. |
| Front camera | 8MP |
| Camera button | Dedicated shutter button on the right edge |
| Battery | 4500mAh, 30W charging and wireless charging |
| Headphone jack | 3.5 mm |
| Fingerprint reader | In the power button on the right edge |
| Charging port | USB-C |
| Memory card | Takes a microSD card up to 1TB |
| Size and weight | 165 by 71 by 8.2 mm, 186 grams |
| Water resistance | IP65 and IP68 |
| IMEI | Has to be clean, with no unpaid balance and nothing reported against it |
| Color | Frosted Black, Frosted Gray and Frosted Purple all pay the same |
XPERIA 1 III BUYBACK QUESTIONS
Storage and condition set it. A 512GB Xperia 1 III with no marks on it at all is $206 today, and the same phone at 256GB is $176. Light wear you cannot feel takes the 512GB to $149. A cracked 512GB still pays $34. The quote tool at the top of this page gives you your own number.
No marks at all. Not faint ones, not ones that only show at an angle under a lamp. Take it into daylight, tilt the screen, tilt the back, and look along the frame and the corners where a phone lands first. Flawless means somebody could hand it to you as a used phone and you would not find anything. If you spot light wear that your fingernail cannot feel, that is Good. If your nail catches, that is Average or Fair depending on how bad it is. Grade it strictly and there is nothing to discuss when it arrives.
Because of the shape of the screen. The Xperia 1 III is 21:9, and hardly any video is made in 21:9, so black bars sit motionless along the top and bottom of almost everything you watch. Static content is what burns an OLED panel in, and this phone gives it more static content than a normal one does. Burn-in puts the phone in Faulty, so check for it rather than assume. A plain white image at full brightness catches the obvious cases and a plain mid gray image catches the faint ones.
The certain answer is Settings, About phone. XQ-BC62 is the Xperia 1 III. XQ-CT62 is the Xperia 1 IV, which has its own page and its own prices. From the outside they are close, so use the zoom to tell them apart. Open the camera, switch to the telephoto and slide the zoom slowly. The 1 III jumps between two fixed zoom positions. The 1 IV slides smoothly through everything in between, because its lens physically moves.
Yes, and by a real amount at every grade. At the top the 512GB is $216 against $185 for the 256GB. Even at the bottom, with a crack in it, the 512GB pays $34 where the 256GB pays $25. Check which one you have in Settings, Storage. Do not go by how much space is free, go by the size the phone reports.
You can. Any crack or chip, front, back or over a camera lens, puts the phone in Faulty. It stays worth something: $25 at 256GB and $34 at 512GB. What we ask is that you pick Faulty on the form rather than hoping we miss it, because then the number you were quoted is the number that gets paid and nobody has to send anything back.
Not by itself. This phone has no battery percentage rule attached to it, and we will not ask you to go looking for a battery health reading. Four years of charging takes something out of every battery and we expect that. The question is only whether it still works. A phone that switches itself off with charge left, or that will not run without a cable in it, has stopped working properly, and anything that has stopped working puts the phone in Faulty.
It goes in as Faulty. The rule on Android phones here is simple and it is not a checklist: if part of the phone does not work, the phone is Faulty. That covers a camera that will not focus, a lens that stays black, a speaker with no sound in it and a button that has stopped clicking. On this model the telephoto is worth a specific look, because it swings between two zoom positions and the mechanism that moves it can seize. Open the camera, run the zoom out and back, and check you get a sharp picture at both ends.
Carriers pay in monthly bill credit and they mostly do not list Sony at all, because Sony stopped selling through US carriers. So for a lot of Xperia 1 III owners the honest comparison is our number against nothing. We pay once, in cash, in whichever of four ways you pick, and there is no contract attached to it.
Unlocked, in almost every case. Sony sold this phone unlocked and direct in the US rather than through carrier stores, and Unlocked is the option that pays here. If you are not sure, put another network's SIM in and try a call, or search your settings for network lock. Choose what your phone actually is, and take the number the form gives you.
No, not while it is locked. The factory reset lock means the next person cannot set the phone up, so it has no grade and no price. Take the Google account off the phone before you erase it. If you erased it first and it is now asking for an account you no longer use, sign in with that account, remove it from the phone, then erase it again. Blacklisted phones, phones reported lost or stolen and phones a carrier has blocked all get turned down the same way, and we post them back free.
Not until the plan is settled. Anything on an installment agreement or a lease sits under a financial obligation, and we do not purchase devices under financial obligations. Finish the payments, then quote it here. Nothing else changes.
Keep all three. Nothing has to be in the box but the phone, and accessories are not priced into what we pay. The memory card matters more than the rest: take it out, because it is yours and whatever is on it is yours. Leave the empty SIM tray in the phone though, since a missing tray counts as a fault.
Pick one of four at checkout. Gift card, emailed, and worth roughly 3 percent more because the brands top it up. PayPal, instant, minus PayPal's own 2.99 percent fee. Bank transfer in 2 to 4 days. Check in 3 to 5. All four leave here the same day your phone clears inspection, which is inside 48 hours of it arriving. Sealed Brand New phones are the exception and are paid by PayPal only.
Pick your storage and your grade. It takes about a minute, and the price is held for 14 days.
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