Get Cash For Your Used or Broken iPhone

Look at the condition of your old iPhone. Darn right you replaced it. What good is the best smartphone in the world when the screen is cracked? There’s only one thing to do now - drop it in the trash and fuhgeddaboutit. Right? WRONG!

Throw away that iPhone and you are committing two unforgivable sins. First of all, you are throwing away money. Second, you are polluting the environment. Why do that when you can get cash for used or even broken iPhones?

Unbelievable, but true. There is company that will actually present you with offers for your old iPhone whether it works or not. Of course, the better the condition the more you get. But even old junkers are worth a little something. Compensation ranges from a few dollars on up to over $100 cash. I just checked the some typical compensation values and it actually says you can get over $100 for a functioning iPhone 4S. You won’t get a hundred bucks if you toss it to the curb in last week’s trash, now will you?

By the way, sending in your old iPhone won’t cost you a cent either. You just enter your contact information on a quick online form and tell them what iPhone you have and its condition and, in most cases, one or more buyers will send you a pre-paid mailer. Put your iPhone in the mailer, send it off, and wait for your moola to arrive shortly. When you think about it, that’s not much more trouble than taking out the trash and it pays a lot better.

Here's something even better. This not only works for iPhones, but all sorts of other smartphones, too. You can get cash for tablets, digital cameras, MP3 players, game consoles and e-readers as well as a wide variety of smartphones and feature phones.

Even so, you’ve got an old iPhone in the desk drawer, don’t you? Well, it’s time to get paid. Check the offers, select the best one for you and request your pre-paid equipment mailer now. Then do one more wonderful thing. Donate that found money to a good cause (like this one). You’ll feel even better.

Cash For Clunker Cell Phones

The government’s Cash for Clunkers program may be ending for automobiles. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a great idea. Did you know that there is a way you can get cash for your old clunker cell phone? In fact, there’s cash available for all sorts of unwanted electronic devices. You should really be getting your share.

Scratching your head because you haven’t heard about this on TV? That’s because it isn’t part of the hot news cycle right now. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get paid for old cell phones, laptop computers, PDAs, GPS systems, camcorders, gaming consoles, video games, satellite radios, external disk drives, LCD monitors, calculators, movies, camera lenses, desktop computers, streaming media, Blu-Ray players, home audio, projectors, digital cameras and MP3 players.

Whew! You didn’t realize that you had so many clunkers sitting around your house, did you? They may well be worth cash. The only way to find out for sure is to check the value of your electronic gadgets. You can do that right now.

To be sure, this is not a government program like the “Cash For Clunkers” stimulus. Some might think it should be, but there’s no need. The commercial marketplace has already risen to the occasion. In fact, this opportunity has been available for some time. It just isn’t as well known as it deserves to be.

How does it work? You may suspect that the cell phone that just came off of a two year service contract might be worth something. But it’s not your priority. What you want to do is start using the new cell phone that you got for free or at a deep discount from your new provider. So, the old cell goes into a desk drawer where it will be safe until you figure out what to do with it. Time passes and five or ten years later it’s still there. Only now it’s really not worth anything. Had you recycled it for cash right after you started using your new cell phone, you might have gotten $25, $50, $100 or more. That’s even if you got the phone for free in the first place.

The process is simple. You simply check the value of your electronic device, get an instant offer and request a prepaid shipping carton. Drop your electro-clunker in the mail and you’ll get a check in return. Does it get any easier than this?

If you indeed have a worthless clunker, you can also send it in for proper recycling. Electronic waste is becoming a scourge on society, as it piles up in landfills and leaches out toxic chemicals. Be part of the solution and send your unwanted electronics in for recycling instead of just tossing it.

Drowning in a Sea of Cell Phones

The latest estimates I've seen put mobile subscribers at about 3 billion around the word, with 1 billion new cell phones sold each year. With a 2 to 3 year churn factor, that means that roughly a 1,000,000,000 mobile phones go obsolete each year. That's a billion with a "b". Where do they all go?

Right in a drawer at home, that's where. Actually a new survey says that only 44% actually wind up just sitting around the house like a boomerang college graduate. (Ouch, I was one of those). Another 25% get passed on to family and friends. A full 16% get sold. But only 3% are recycled.

Frankly, I can't see why you'd recycle a device that could be sold. But only 16% of those billion sales opportunities are turned into cash. That's hundreds and hundreds of millions of phones and dollars wasting away.

Well, perhaps there's not enough money to make it worth bundling up the old cell and driving it to the post office. I took a look through the listings of a company that re-purposes used cell phones for application in third world countries and as emergency phones in the U.S. They give you a mailer and send you a check for each cell they receive in good working order.

How much can you get? Most models seem to be in the $4 to $20 range, although there are a lot of newer models and smartphones that garner $25, $50 and more. Got an old iPhone you want to unload? You might get $150 for it.

What about phones that have collected a layer of dust because you sat them aside - a few years ago. Blow it off. Then send that junker in for recycling using a free mailing label. It will be out of your way and you'll have the satisfaction of knowing it isn't adding to the mounting tonnage of old electronics that will have to be dealt with someday.

Whatever you do, resist the urge to drop it in the weekly waste along with all the old pizza that's gone dried and wrinkly. Nature will reclaim pizza. The nasty arsenic, cadmium, plastics and other environmental degraders will live on to poison future generations. Some cities have electronic recycling days where you can drop off your circuit board laden trash for proper handling. If not, get that free mailing label and send it to a recycler specializing in cellular phones. They'll reclaim any valuable chemicals and metals and make sure whatever is left gets dealt with appropriately.

So now that you've unloaded your prized vintage mobile collection for cash and recycling, there's only one thing left to do. Go shopping for the latest and greatest mobile wireless devices.