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Sell Your Old Cell Phone Instead Of Dumping It

Edit Post Monday, July 27, 2009

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July 28, 2009: Being tech savvy people, every year we change our cell phones. Now comes the tricky part. What do we do with our old cell phones - dump them? No way! We have been selling them for the past few years and making a tidy sum out of each deal. This year we sold them online to a new company named sellyourcell.com.

In the past we have sold to companies like ripmobile, cellforcash, etc. Our experience with sellyourcell.com has been neat. We got a price quote for our phone (model, make, year), closed the deal and printed the FREE UPS shipping label. Then we put our phone along with its manual and accessories in a box, pasted the FREE UPS label on the box and dropped it off at a UPS drop box.

We received confirmation emails from sellyourcell.com. Within a couple of weeks the check arrived in the mail! They saved us the listing fees and headache associated with selling our phones on ebay. Another advantage is that we don't have to wait for a buyer to purchase our phone (as is the case for selling on ebay or amazon). The sale is immediate since sellyourcell buys the phone directly from us.

So if you have a couple of cell phones in your garage, grab them and sell them online. Not only does it helps us to pocket some dollars but is environment friendly since the phones are resold or recycled. This one is a Win-Win for all :)

Anonymous said...

I have looked into this quite extensively, but so far, I have always kept my phones for the entire two year contract - and cell phones depreciate very quickly. I looked up the $150 dollar phone that I bought 15 months ago and it is worth $3.50.

I know we have a couple sitting around. I want to try this! I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks for the tip!

FIRE Finance said...

Prices of phones do deprecate, but the good part is that the phones are been reused or recycled and we get some money back. Most recycling shops charge money for recycling electronic goods.

If your cell phone isn't worth selling, you you can always donate it to an organization like Safeplace (http://www.austin-safeplace.org), an organization that works with victims of abuse.

SellyourCell said...

I think everyone here gets it! It IS truly a 'win-win' situation for all. Thank you for the recommendation. -GBoyd Marketing Director at SellyourCell.com

Thanks to Noma & GBoyd for your comments. Also we appreciate the tip from our anonymous friend :)

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