| There are a dozen or so dedicated mobile phone | | | | set an auction start and end time, wait for the end of |
| recycling companies that will exchange unwanted | | | | the auction, hope that the highest bidder pays up, hope |
| handsets for cash. These companies offer some of | | | | that the highest bid is as good as one hoped it would |
| the most competitive prices. We see popular sites | | | | be and then parcelling it up and posting it. Oh my gosh, |
| such as Envirofone and Fonebank offering good | | | | so much effort, most of us simply cannot be bothered |
| prices for old mobiles. | | | | with this kind of hassle. |
| In the past few years companies have been popping | | | | An even older and far outdated way for us to sell and |
| up that offer an easy to use service where an old | | | | old phone, I'm talking before the Internet and not long |
| mobile can be exchanged for cash. These phones are | | | | after electricity was invented, is selling to friends, work |
| recycled, broken down and reused, even broken ones | | | | colleagues or just contacts you know. Remember |
| are valuable as they contain components that cost a | | | | when you first got the phone two years ago, all your |
| lot to originally manufacture, so re-using them makes | | | | work mates were gathered round you in awe at how |
| sense. | | | | cool your phone was, well why not ask them? I'm sure |
| Whenever we get a new mobile phone we wonder | | | | most of them would not be that bothered by dinosaur |
| what to do with the old one. Often they are kept to | | | | technology and probably all have phones of their own |
| one side as a backup in case the new phone that's | | | | way better than the trash bat you are trying to get rid |
| replacing it breaks, crashes or is disliked for whatever | | | | of, but hey, there may be someone you know who |
| reason. Another reason they are kept is because we | | | | would love your phone and the price that you are |
| think it's just too much effort to go out of the way to | | | | selling it for. Imagine if you just gave it to them for free |
| sell it and get some cash to it as well as a having a | | | | out of the kindness of your heart. Instead of milking |
| emotional tie with the phone of all the good times | | | | them for a tenner, just give it to them with love and |
| we've had together. Maybe it's time to get a grip, | | | | compassion and make their day, their week or even |
| move on with the new phone and get some cash. | | | | their month. |
| We have been put off from selling because in the | | | | We want money really, times are hard, so get it sent |
| past there were only a few ways to do it. One way | | | | off to one of these cash for old mobile recycling |
| was to use a site like eBay to set up and auction to | | | | companies and put it towards a better newer phone. |
| flog it off. This is time consuming to do as one has to | | | | Type in the model number of an old handset into the |
| find a picture, write a title and description, set a price, | | | | website then off you go. |