Best Buy launches Exchange program for Microsoft Surface

Summary: Best Buy is offering users $200 and $350 best buy gift cards for the marketing of their Surface RT and first Pro devices generation, just ahead of release of the Microsoft surface 2.

Best Buy has launched a program of exchange of Microsoft Surface which gives users a minimum Best Buy gift card $200 to trade in its first generation RT Surface or Surface Pro.

According to the Best Buy "Surface swap" page (which I found through a link on the edge), users will receive up to $350 gift card to the value of its surfaces, depending on the way in which they are in.

To find out how much can be achieved, users can visit a participating best buy store, or use the links on the website to calculate its value in Exchange. "If the article has no trade-in value, we can recycle it free," according to the site.

Here is what the calculator quote Best Buy (which is for all kinds of devices, not just the surface) will offer for the first generation of surface of RTs and professionals:

Surface RT (32 GB): good conditiion: $150; Fair: $105; Poor: $67.50; Does not work: $0
Surface RT (64 GB): good condition: $175; Fair: $122: poor: $78,75: does not work: $0
Surface Pro (64 GB): good condition: $315; Fair: $220,50; Poor: $141,75; Does not work: $0
Surface Pro (128 GB): good condition: $350; Fair: $245; Poor: $157,50: does not work: $0

Surface Exchange began Oct. 6 and runs through October 21, which is the day before the surface 2 and 2 Surface Pro will sale retail.

The Best Buy trade-in frequently asked questions site said that those interested in participating should be 18 years. Original accessories (such as charging cables) must be included. I have not clear if they are designed in the value covered touch type, but given Microsoft and retailers sold separately, I think that not.

Hmm. I am tempted to trade in my RT Surface and use the card to a surface of 2...

Mary Jo has covered the technology industry for more than 25 years for a variety of publications and websites and is a frequent guest on radio and TV, podcasts, talking about all things related to Microsoft. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: how Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the era post Gates (John Wiley & sons, 2008).