Every trade-in is a margin
decision. Stop guessing it.
Trade-ins are the highest-margin stock in the shop, and the price is set by whoever happens to be at the counter. 8 Star prices the offer off your own sheet — by model, storage and condition — checks the IMEI before you hand over cash, and drops the unit straight into inventory already costed.
Priced off your sheetIMEI checked firstStraight into stock
Quote it in three seconds. Clear the same margin every time.
Pick the handset and its condition the way your counter would. What you hand over, what it resells for, and what you actually keep after parts — all decided before the customer finishes explaining how it broke.
What are they trading?
What shape is it in?
Sells as-is.
Roughly what a single busy counter takes in.
Offer sheet
iPhone 13 128GB · Mint
YOU CLEAR
$153You pay
$187Resells for
$340Margin
45%At 8 trades a week, this unit's margin
$5,300a month
Buy devices in without guessing what they’re worth.
Take a trade-in at the counter and price it off your own sheet instead of a hunch. What you pay, what it resells for and what you clear are all on screen while the customer is still standing there — so your newest hire quotes exactly what you would.
- Offer priced by model, storage and condition — the same number from every employee.
- IMEI checked before you pay, so a flagged handset never becomes your problem.
- Accept and it lands straight in inventory, already costed and ready to sell.
Buyback · offer sheet
What you pay today, and what it clears
YOU CLEAR
$0
Four ways a trade-in quietly costs you money.
Buyback rarely loses money on the deal you're thinking about. It loses money in the gaps around it — the quote nobody checked, the price nobody updated, the handset nobody logged.
The generous quote
A new hire wants the customer to say yes, so they round up. Twenty dollars over, forty times a month, and the counter has spent your margin being liked.
The stale price
A model drops $60 the week a new one lands. If your sheet is a printout from March, you're buying at March's prices in September.
The unchecked handset
You pay cash for a unit that turns out to be blacklisted. That isn't thin margin, it's the whole purchase price gone.
The device that vanishes
It gets taken in, put in a drawer, and never makes it into stock. It can't sell if the system doesn't know it exists.
Every offer runs an IMEI check first. Blacklist, carrier lock and lost-or-stolen status, before any cash leaves the till.
See the IMEI check →Counter to sellable stock, without a spreadsheet in between.
- 01
Pick the handset
Model and storage off your own price list, so the starting number is yours — not whatever the internet says today.
- 02
Grade the condition
Mint, good, or cracked. Refurb cost comes out of the offer automatically instead of being forgotten until the repair bench sees it.
- 03
Check the IMEI
Blacklist, lock state and lost/stolen come back in seconds, and the result is attached to the record as proof you looked.
- 04
Accept and stock it
The unit lands in inventory at the price you paid, so its margin is real from the moment it hits the shelf.
Your best margin shouldn't depend on who's working.
Buyback is built into 8 Star OS, one tab from checkout and inventory. Start free and price your next trade-in off a sheet instead of a hunch.