A lot of people think the S24 Ultra is the best one Samsung made.
Titanium, flat screen, S Pen in the silo. That opinion has a price attached, and it is still holding.
The S24 Ultra has aged better than any Galaxy in years, and the reason is specific rather than sentimental. It was the generation Samsung moved to a titanium frame and a properly flat screen, and a large number of people consider it the high point of the line. The second-hand market has not forgotten that, and it shows in the number.
It is also arriving in volume right now, because two years is when most South African contracts end. That means plenty of supply, and it also means plenty of buyers who have been waiting for exactly this phone to come down into range. The second half is why the price has held up.
What it will not do is climb. From here the curve heads steadily down, and it is steeper between year two and year three than it was between year one and year two.
Every one of these has two numbers.
What it is worth working, and what it is worth faulty. Both are real, both are yours in about a minute, and both depend on the actual device rather than a best case printed on a page. That is why the number lives in the calculator and not in a table here.
Galaxy S24 Ultra
1TB
Galaxy S24 Ultra
512GB
Galaxy S24 Ultra
256GB
If you are upgrading, you are not selling. You are part-paying.
Two years in, an Ultra owner is usually deciding between the current Ultra and finally trying a Fold. A clean S24 Ultra covers a serious share of either.
Take the payout as EpicDeals.co.za credit instead of cash and we add 12% on top. That is us paying you for not needing the money in your account today, and it costs you nothing if you were going to spend it here anyway.
The 12% is only worth taking if you were going to spend it. If you need the cash, take the cash, and we will not make the voucher hard to refuse.
What actually moves the number.
Screen, and whether it was ever replaced
An original Samsung panel and a mall-kiosk replacement are not the same thing to a buyer. A non-original panel often means no auto-brightness, a wrong colour profile, or a fingerprint reader that no longer reads through it. Tell us either way, honestly.
Battery at the two-year mark
This is where capacity starts to show. Above 85% is unremarkable, below it is where a buyer starts budgeting for a replacement. Check the real number rather than guessing high, because guessing high is the most common reason an offer moves after testing.
S Pen present, silo working
Two separate things, both worth declaring, and both entirely normal to have gone wrong by now.
The titanium frame, which shows its history
Titanium scuffs differently to aluminium, and the flat edges of this generation collect it. A cased phone and a bare one look very different at two years old.
Things that do not disqualify it.
Every one of these lowers the offer. Not one of them ends it. Pick the matching condition, say what is wrong in the notes, and the price you are shown already accounts for it.
- Cracked or shattered screen, front or back glass
- Burn-in or a green line down the AMOLED panel
- A battery that swells, dies at 30% or will not hold a day
- Fingerprint sensor under the screen that has stopped reading
- USB-C port that only charges if you hold the cable just so
- Camera with dust, haze or a rattling stabiliser
- Water damage, including phones that dried out and seemed fine
- Will not switch on at all
Three ways to take the money.
Cash
Instant offer
Assessed within 1-3 working days of arriving, paid within 5 working days of your offer being confirmed.
+12%
Trade-in voucher
Take it as credit on EpicDeals.co.za instead and we add 12%. Useful if the plan was always to upgrade.
+10%
Consignment
We list it, we sell it, you get 10% more than the instant offer. Most sell within 13 days.
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Galaxy S24 Ultra questions.
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