Can you pass on your Gazelle payment when you die?
EcoATM reviews requests about Gazelle payment after a death case by case.
Protecting Gazelle payment while the account is active
No beneficiary designation, payment can only be redeemed, not transferred, and 4-step plan.
How to protect your Gazelle payment while you are alive →Someone died. Handling Gazelle payment after a death
Transfer is handled on a case-by-case basis, 7-step process, and 4 required documents.
What happens to Gazelle payment when someone dies →Gazelle is a consumer-electronics trade-in service: a customer ships in a used phone, tablet or other device, Gazelle inspects it, and pays the agreed offer by check, PayPal or an Amazon gift card. Each trade-in is a separate one-off transaction.
ecoATM decides what happens to Gazelle payment after a death case by case; its terms promise no transfer. ecoATM allows no lifetime transfer of payment; the account holder can only redeem them.
What happens to Gazelle at death
Naming who acts after a death
- Designation
There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor for a Gazelle trade-in; a trade-in offer is non-transferable and not redeemable for anything other than what Gazelle offers.1
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ecoATM publishes no process specific to a deceased person's account; Gazelle Customer Support answers at 1-800-429-3553. There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on a Gazelle account.
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