How To Sell Your Old Mobile Phone for Cash

How to turn your old mobile phone into cash:

We’re all looking for extra cash today. The UK economy, like most world economies, is in bad shape. Employers are laying their workers off in record numbers. Wages are stagnant. Even housing prices are down significantly. But there’s one easy way to put a bit of extra spending money in your account: You can recycle your old mobile phone for cash.

Do you happen to own a Sony C3050 mobile phone that you no longer use? You can send it to a private recycling company for £20 pounds. How about a Nokia N70? That mobile phone can fetch you £32 pounds, while the Nokia N73 will bring back £55.

Other mobile models will nab you even more cash. For instance, if you have a Samsung i900 that you’re no longer using, you can send it to private recycling company and receive 102 pounds in payment. The BlackBerry 9500 will bring 105 pounds.

But how do you get at this money? It’s simple. You merely use the Internet and the services of one of the many private recycling companies now serving the UK.

Try typing in the phrase “mobile phone recycling” in your computer. You’ll turn up dozens of private companies willing to send your cash for your unwanted mobile phone. Some of these companies include fonebank.com, recycleyourmobile.com and envirofone.com. All of these companies will gladly accept even your damaged mobile phones. Often, you can expect to receive up to 80 percent of a full-price offer for a mobile phone that is no longer working.

To take advantage of phone recycling, simply find the private company with which you’d like to work. Log onto its Web site and search for the phone that you wish to recycle. Or, if you don’t feel like searching, most sites will give you the option of typing in your phone’s basic information.

Once you’ve located your mobile phone, click on it. You’ll soon see the number of pounds the recycler is willing to send to you for that particular make and model. If the offer sounds right to you, accept it. If it doesn’t, don’t worry; there are plenty of competitors out there that may be willing to give you a better price.

The next step is to send your unwanted mobile phone to the recycler. You can do this in one of two ways: Some companies will be happy to send you a self-addressed padded envelope for your old mobile. Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can drop your mobile into your own envelope and send it off.

Either way, you should expect to receive your agreed-upon payment in no longer than seven business days.

As you can see, recycling your mobile phone for cash is a painless task. It’s a shame, then, that so few people actually take advantage of these programs. That’s a lot of unclaimed cash that’s being left on the table.

It’s also bad for the environment. Mobile phones are increasingly ending up at the bottom of landfills across the UK. This is especially troublesome because many ofhese old mobile phones – especially the oldest models – contain potentially dangerous chemicals such as lead, cadmium and beryllium that can leak into the soil.

The only sure way to prevent this from happening is to make sure that we recycle as many mobile phones as possible. The hope is that the offer of cash for mobile phones, which is the offer that so many private recycling companies are making, will be more than enough to boost the number of people that currently recycle mobile phones.