the80 takes the damaged and faulty device tail off your books at a guaranteed value. Cracked, Bad LCD, No Power — the grades the market walks away from are the only thing we do.
The recommerce industry optimised for the pristine minority: clean, unlocked, grade-A devices that resell themselves. Everything else got squeezed — one crack and the price collapses, one fault and the offer disappears. Suppliers learned not to bother. Trust eroded, supply dried up, and the race to the bottom accelerated.
the80 prices the hard tail honestly. A damaged device isn't worthless — it's just unpriced. By underwriting grades D, E and F at guaranteed values, we give the programmes above us a floor they can build on, and we put devices back into circulation instead of drawers and landfill.
Public trade-in quotes for the same iPhone 16 128GB show the problem: a single crack wipes out two-thirds of the value, and anything worse is refused outright. Apple Trade In simply recycles ineligible devices for free — "no matter the model or condition." The market collapses all damage into one tier, then walks away from the rest.
We price every step of that ladder — including the ones they refuse.
Source: musicMagpie public quotes, iPhone 16 128GB; Apple Trade In published policy.
A guaranteed value means exactly that: the price we agree up front is the price we pay. You get certainty — and we never come back to claw it back.
Send us your list — any format, any mix. We return a guaranteed value per line against our published grade ladder before a single device moves. No hidden re-grades, no post-hoc haircuts.
Ship in bulk on your schedule. Devices are verified against the agreed grades on arrival — transparently, against written criteria you can audit. Discrepancies are documented with evidence, line by line.
Settlement follows verification, fast. Every device is data-sanitised and moves on to its next life — repair, refurbishment or responsible recovery — so value and materials stay in circulation.
Most buyers fight over the top of this ladder. We built the80 for the bottom of it — priced honestly, grade by grade, model by model.
the80 isn't another marketplace competing for your grade-A stock. We're the layer beneath — the guaranteed floor for the devices your programme can't place.
Stop refusing devices at the counter. Quote the whole ladder with a guaranteed exit for the tail — higher acceptance, no residual risk.
Returns, ungraded lots and damaged stock cleared in bulk at values agreed before shipment — instead of ageing in a warehouse.
End-of-term fleets never come back pristine. A guaranteed residual for the damaged share makes the whole book easier to underwrite.
Beyond-economic-repair units and claim salvage priced per device, per grade — recover value from write-offs instead of paying to dispose of them.
Send a list, get a guaranteed value per line, ship, get paid. No integration required — it works from a spreadsheet on day one. Most partners start here.
The same guarantee, delivered as data: live floor prices for grades D, E and F, straight into your trade-in journey, returns flow or residual model.
The price feed is being built API-first. Query a device by model and grade, get back a value we stand behind — the same guarantee, machine-readable. Webhook updates when the market moves, so your quotes are never stale.
Integrating early? We're onboarding design partners now — your workflows shape the endpoints.
Pricing damage correctly is the whole job — and it only works if every step behind the price is defensible.
Every device that powers on is wiped to documented procedure before it moves anywhere; devices that can't be wiped are physically destroyed under audit. Data handling is logged per IMEI, end to end.
Our grade ladder is written down, shared up front, and applied from the device's actual condition — never from a generic label. Disputed lines come back with photographic evidence.
Every device we buy is one that doesn't go to shredding or a drawer. We track where devices end up — reuse, repair, parts recovery — and report it, so your programme's circularity claims have numbers behind them.
Send us a stock list — any format — and we'll come back with a guaranteed value per line. No commitment until you see the numbers.
