recycle or sell your old cell phone
I’m still in that honeymoon period with my brand new cell phone, the AT&T 8525. It’s got its quirks, but so do I, and it’s nothing we can’t work through. Not like my old phone, that I disliked almost immediately. The Motorola Razr I had was unbranded, and wouldn’t work properly with Cingular, despite it being sold to us by one of their “authorized retailers”. I couldn’t send pictures, I couldn’t sent text messages, and I couldn’t download ring tones. I thought the phone was cumbersome to hold and use. I dropped it ALL the time! So yhy should I recycle my cell phone?
Well, I know other people who have the Razr from Motorola and absolutely love how thin and compact it is. If they’re dying to have a phone like that, who am I to stop them? And there are others who just want a phone - maybe they’ve changed plans and their old phone doesn’t work with the new plan. Why should all of those phones we get rid of be thrown away and end up in a landfill, when they’re usable? That’s the idea behind CellForCash.com - you can visit their site, locate your cell phone by the manufacturer and model, and view the value of that phone when you sell it to CellForCash.com. Isn’t making money off that old phone a lot cooler than dumping it in the trash? And even if you can’t make any cash, you can still donate your phone for free and keep it from the landfill!
Did you know that each year, over 140 million cell phones are retired - and less than 5% of those phones are recycled? That’s a lot of cell phones in the trash.
In order to recycle your cell phone, the phones should be in working condition. Junk belongs in the trash can, not being shipped to this company, so please don’t abuse their offer by sending non working phones. You won’t get paid! You should include the battery, battery door, charger, and other accessories, if possible. Once you mail in your phone (in their free, postage paid mailer) you’ll get payment in 30 days. I can send in my old Razr and get $23. Not bad for something I was going to toss!
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There are usually local drop-offs that will make the phones 911 use only for people in low income brackets who really need phones, like single moms in bad parts of town.
My personal feeling about giving anyone my phone is the same as giving anyone a computer with a hard drive in it. Smash it. There are simply too many ways to recover data that has once been deleted, why risk it all for $23? I’d rather have piece of mind than wonder if someone is getting credit card info from my phone, being that I used to pay my cell bill via text message.