Meta Will Let You Trade In These Devices For Discounts On Smart Glasses - How It Works

Kerry Wan/ZDNET

Follow ZDNET: Add america arsenic a preferred source on Google.

ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Meta is introducing a caller trade-in programme for its smart glasses.
• You tin waste and acquisition Meta glasses aliases Beats, Apple, and Samsung earbuds.
• Values scope from astir $70 to astir $110.

If you're reasoning astir picking up Meta's latest smart glasses, there's a caller programme you'll want to cognize about. For nan first time, you tin waste and acquisition successful older devices and get in installments toward nan acquisition of caller Meta Oakley aliases Ray-Ban smart glasses.

Meta hasn't officially announced anything, but location is simply a terms and conditions page for nan caller programme connected Meta's site.

Also: I tried Meta's caller Oakley smart glasses successful my accumulation workplace - my verdict arsenic a contented creator

You tin waste and acquisition successful nan original Meta glasses aliases a number of different earbuds, including those from Apple, Beats, and Samsung. Eligible devices do request to beryllium successful moving condition, Meta explained, and must see nan charging lawsuit to decently complaint nan device. You tin only waste and acquisition successful 1 instrumentality for each caller point purchased.

According to a station connected Reddit, existent prices are astir $110 for Meta Ray Bans first generation, $70 for Apple, Samsung, aliases Beats receptor buds.

The complete database of devices you tin waste and acquisition successful includes:

• Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 1)

• Apple AirPods Pro 2

• Apple AirPods 4

• Apple AirPods 3

• Beats Powerbeats Pro 2

• Beats Studio Buds +

• Beats Fit Pro

• Samsung Galaxy Buds3

• Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro

• Samsung Galaxy Buds3 FE

This is nan first clip Meta has offered a trade-in program. If you want to work, you request to enactment quickly, though, arsenic nan programme only runs done Dec. 31, 2025.

How to waste and acquisition successful your aged devices for caller Meta smart glasses

Here's really nan process works:

Start by purchasing a trade-in eligible caller instrumentality from nan Meta Store. This includes nan Ray-Ban Meta Gen 1, nan Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, nan Oakley Meta HSTN, and nan Oakley Meta Vanguard. After your acquisition is complete, you'll get an bid confirmation email pinch a trade-in questionnaire link. Answer each nan questions astir your trade-in, and you'll get a quote and instructions for packaging and mailing your existent device. If you accept, you'll get a pre-paid shipping explanation to message successful your instrumentality and person your credit. You request to message successful your aged instrumentality wrong 30 days.

Also: Your Meta Ray-Bans are getting respective video-recording upgrades for free - and Oakley models, too

If you determine you want to return your caller purchase, Meta warned, you'll get your acquisition magnitude little nan worth of your trade-in.

I've reached retired to Meta for much details.