Whilst getting down the Christmas decorations I noticed that I had an old shoe box full of old mobile phones and I thought “bet theres some cash to be had in there”. I found an old n0kia 3210, samsung 320i, sony ericsson i900, o2 xda mini ii and a few others – I tend to look after my mobile phones and still had the boxes which was lucky!
Having done some searching around I found a website captainmobile.co.uk that gives price comparison between all of the top mobile recycling brands including masuma, phonebank, envirophone and more. One that stood out was mobilephonexchange.co.uk which seemed to give the best deal and whats more important would recycle mobile phones for cash, if you want more than cold hard cash you can get a better deal by getting vouchers which was ideal for my last minute pressie buying.
When researching mobilephonexchange and the rest I noticed that Google Suggest was pulling up terms like scam and review however I seem pretty happy with my choice having read all of the forum threads (many of which were gamed lol) and am happy to report that its not a scam tho’ there is some wrangling that happens based on quotation and condition of the phones which i suppose was to be expected.
All in all I got just over £100 for the job lot which pretty much paid for loads of bits and bats for nices and nephews for Christmas… good times!
So my advice is if you’re getting a new mobile phone for Christmas and you want some extra cash for your January sales shopping then you might have some cash tied up in any old mobiles you have – the vouchers are a winner!
Thanks for sharing your research, I guess you have to be careful when posting things to companies you’re not sure of. Sounds like you made a decent amount from your old phones, in all fairness I think we’re all a bit guilty of hoarding, using excuses like I can keep it as a spare, I know I am. Hopefully more people will follow your example and help the environment, whilst earning some extra cash at the same time.
That is really awesome- that fact that we can turn these trash into gold! I think that it would be wise for people to recycle their old mobile phones and instead of throwing them into dump sites. Thanks for sharing this interesting post.