Newegg will now take your {old} GPU off your fingers in change for a trade-in credit score on a brand new one. The Newegg Trade-In Program, which soft-launched earlier this month however was formally introduced as we speak, provides you a modest bit of money again in your new GPU and Newegg a gradual stream of playing cards to refurbish and resell.
Estimated trade-in values vary from $30 for a 4GB AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT all the best way as much as $561 for an Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti 24GB. You examine your trade-in worth by clicking the large ol’ “Verify Your Commerce-In Worth” button on the product web page for a GPU and choosing your card from a drop-down menu. Regardless of the “GeForce GTX” card within the photograph above, Newegg received’t take playing cards older than the AMD RX 5000 collection (launched in July 2019) or the Nvidia RTX 20 collection, from fall 2018. Unhealthy information for me and my apparently nugatory GTX 1070!
You don’t get the trade-in credit score instantly. As an alternative, after you purchase your new GPU, Newegg sends you a pay as you go label, after which you’ve got 14 days to return the {old} one for the quoted worth. As soon as they examine the cardboard, they’ll apply the credit score as a refund to your authentic type of cost, though the terms and conditions page says that the corporate reserves the correct to pay by way of Newegg present card as a substitute.
Once we reached out for clarification, Eric Wein, Newegg’s international head of public relations, advised The Verge that the unique type of cost will probably be credited in “the vast majority of transactions” however that present playing cards could be issued in some circumstances.
An instance might be if the brand new GPU order was canceled or voided and so they’ve already despatched their used GPU, Newegg might want to ship a present card for the quantity of the trade-in GPU. That’s not the anticipated course of for this program, however that’s an answer on this occasion.
Newegg’s press launch touts this system as a strategy to cut back digital waste and keep away from the effort of promoting your {old} GPU. As with mainly all trade-in packages, you might get extra money elsewhere however at the price of comfort. Wein advised The Verge by way of e mail that Newegg refurbishes the GPUs it receives and resells them with a 30-day guarantee. You possibly can see Newegg’s first-party refurbished cards here.
Replace September twenty sixth, 2023, 4:40PM ET: Added assertion from Newegg clarifying below which circumstances trade-in credit could be issued as present playing cards as a substitute of refunds to the unique type of cost.