Sell Your Cracked-Screen MacBook for Instant Credit

When you take a cracked-screen MacBook to Apple, the trade-in tool returns a quote of zero and an offer to recycle it for free. That isn't Apple being stingy — their program is designed only to take devices they can flip as Certified Refurbished, and a cracked screen makes a unit unsellable as-is. The same is true at Back Market, Gazelle, and the carrier kiosks: they're all resellers, and a broken screen breaks their whole model.

We run a repair bench, so the calculation is flipped. A cracked-screen Mac that still boots is carrying a perfectly good logic board, a healthy battery, working ports, and a chassis we can reuse. Even the broken display has salvageable backlight, hinges, and glass. Those are exactly the parts we need to repair the Macs we sell under our 1-year whole-machine warranty. So a unit that's worthless to a reseller is genuinely valuable to us — and that's why we can hand you $140–$220 for a Mac everyone else values at zero.

Once your quote is set, we email a prepaid shipping label and a one-page packing slip. Wipe your data first (sign out of iCloud, then erase the drive), wrap the Mac well, drop it at any UPS or FedEx counter — there's nothing to pay. Your trade-in credit is applied to your purchase up front, so you're not waiting on the package to use it.

When the box reaches our warehouse 3–7 business days later, our techs verify it matches your description. If it does, the transaction closes and you do nothing else. If it arrives worse than described, we email you the same day with two options: ship it back free, or accept a revised credit. We never quietly keep a unit and stay silent — that's the whole point of trading with a real store.