For marketing & creative agencies

We pay you for your used Macs

You don't pay us a thing. We buy your agency's used Apple devices — and that money funds the AI-capable machines your team needs next.

  • Apple specialists — we price creative configs, not generic laptops
  • Client work wiped to NIST 800-88. 100% US-based.
  • Refreshed and resold — reuse, not shredding

A Refresh specialist replies within one business day, Mon–Fri.

3M+
Apple devices refreshed since 2012
2,000+
Organizations we refresh for
100%
US-based processing and erasure
42,000
Sq ft facility in Skokie, Illinois

No obligation

Get your quote

Find out what your fleet is actually worth. A specialist prices your Macs at real creative-config value, based on models, counts and condition. Then we wipe them, collect them, and pay you.

  • A specialist replies within one business day
  • Blue Glove pickup scheduled around your pitch calendar
  • You don't pay us. We pay you.

No obligation. We'll only use this to build your quote.

Why now

AI moved onto the machine. Your 2021 fleet didn't get the memo.

Generative fill, on-device transcription, local models, real-time render — the work your clients now ask for runs on current silicon and a lot of unified memory. Waiting a year costs you twice: your team works slower, and the machines you'd trade in are worth less.

A Second Life Mac team member packing an agency's iPhones into a shipping tray

The work changed

Editors run AI masking and transcription locally. Designers generate and iterate in the app. Older Macs queue; new ones keep up.

Value has a clock on it

A well-kept Mac sheds value every quarter it sits in a closet. Refreshed on a 2–3 year cycle, it funds the upgrade instead.

Budget you already have

You don't pay us to refresh your agency's Apple devices. We pay you — before the new gear lands, so finance sees the offset.

A Second Life Mac technician grading a refreshed iPad in the Skokie facility
Sustainability

Reuse beats recycling. Every time.

Most of a Mac's carbon footprint is already spent by the time it reaches your studio — it's in the manufacturing. Shredding it writes that off. Keeping it in service doesn't. We refresh your devices and put them back to work with the next owner, and we hand you the paperwork to prove it: device counts, serialized chain of custody, erasure certificates.

That's a real line for your RFP responses, your B Corp filing and the sustainability slide clients keep asking for.

What we buy from agencies

We price the spec, not the category.

Designer workstations

iMacs and MacBook Pros built for Creative Cloud and Figma. We valuate the configuration, not a generic laptop.

Video production

M-series Max and Ultra machines with maxed memory and terabytes of storage. That's production equipment, and it's priced like it.

iPads on set

iPad Pros used for reviews, shot lists and client presentations. We know which generations still command premium pricing.

Client-facing fleet

Account team MacBooks and iPhones kept in good condition. Condition translates to value, and we pay for it.

Fund the upgrade your work needs

Tell us what you've got. We'll tell you what it's worth, wipe it properly, and put it back to work somewhere else.

Straight answers

Questions agencies ask us first

Do you understand creative configurations?

Yes. A MacBook Pro with an M-series Max chip, 96GB of memory and 4TB of storage is not a base model, and we don't value it like one. We're Apple specialists — that's the whole business.

What happens to client work and IP?

We wipe every device to NIST 800-88 in our own Illinois facility — campaigns, pitch decks, source files, gone — and send you the certificates and chain of custody for your records. No third parties, no overseas processors.

Can you work around our pitch calendar?

That's the normal way we do it. Pickups get scheduled after a major delivery or during a slower stretch. Your rhythm sets the schedule, not ours.

Our Macs look used. Is that a problem?

Worn isn't broken. Scuffs and a shiny keyboard from three years of real work barely move the number. Actual damage does, and we'll tell you which is which before you commit.

Why not a generic e-recycler?

Because a recycler weighs your editor's maxed MacBook Pro. We refresh it and resell it, which recovers far more value and keeps a perfectly good machine in service.

How soon do we see numbers?

Send models and rough counts today and a specialist comes back within one business day. Want to talk it through? Say so in the notes and we'll set up a call.