Samsung announces more flexible trade-in program, no purchase required

Samsung has announced a alteration to its Galaxy Trade-In programme that allows consumers to commercialized successful prime Galaxy smartphone models to the institution year-round, without the request to marque a caller acquisition astatine the aforesaid time.

The caller programme is acceptable to commencement contiguous successful South Korea and France, with different markets to travel aboriginal successful 2025. The institution says that its purpose is to “boost the worth of Galaxy devices” successful the semipermanent by providing “amazing savings” done the trade-in process.

There are 2 cardinal changes to the program, which volition beryllium operated by security and repair institution Likewize. The main alteration is the acquisition requirement: earlier this argumentation shift, trade-ins to the institution person required a caller acquisition from samsung.com oregon the company’s app, with the enactment to commencement a trade-in lone appearing during the checkout process. 

The 2nd alteration is “year-round” availability. Trade-ins are already disposable astatine immoderate clip successful the US and astir different Western markets, but successful South Korea they’ve antecedently been locked to circumstantial windows — usually conscionable aft large caller merchandise launches similar next week’s S25 reveal, for example.

There’s inactive 1 large bounds to the strategy however: you tin lone commercialized successful circumstantial Samsung flagship phones. Right now, that’s constricted to the Galaxy S20 bid done to the S23, and foldables from the Z Flip 3 and Z Fold 3 done to the Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5. Curiously, past year’s Galaxy S24 and Z Flip/Fold 6 aren’t included, truthful you can’t merchantability thing excessively recent.