Recycle your mobile phone for cash
The usual journey to work on the bus. As I take my seat, there’s occasionally a Metro lying about on the baggage compartment or on a random passenger seat. Passing the time, skimming through the paper, I notice an intreguing full page ad to recycle your mobile phone for cash. Now apparently this kind of service has been around for quite some time, however, for those (and myself) whom have never heard of it, I’ll try and enlighten you.
MetroRecycles powered by Envirofone are helping the environment by taking in your unused mobile phone (be it working or not) and exchanging it for cash which is good considering how many phones one can go through in a lifetime.
This process occurs by going onto the website and clicking on the ‘Get Cash’ button. We head off by choosing our make and model of phone which we’re given the phones value and an option of trading it in for a ‘Cash Value Cheque’ or ‘Argos Credit’ (more value), enter your details in and confirm. Throughout the order process, you can track via the website on the status of your phone is whether it has been received, undergone testing, product grade rating, payment has been dispatched etc. Through the testing phase however, if they deem it damaged when the user states it’s in full working order, they will reduce the amount of cash you will receive. Once this order has been organised, MetroRecycle will send a trading pack where you will place your mobile phone inside and you can send it back to its freepost address.
From what I’ve understood, payment can be anywhere between 7-20 days but seeing as though the phone you have tucked away in a drawer somewhere not being used, it’s quite a nice transaction as some of the Telecom 3 staff believe.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Looks good but I prefer donating my old handset to charity.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I have sent a couple of phones to envirophone its a good service they also allow you to swap for vouchers
June 25th, 2008 at 8:52 am
I have used envirofone before and although its a good service, i’m not entirely confident of their pricing. I sent a phone in worth £33 on the website and it had no damage what so ever. They then sent me an email saying that its only worth £19 because of a cracked screen! I can assure you, it wasn’t cracked.
I would suggest using either http://www.mopay.co.uk or mazuma.com - these are identical services and seem to pay more for your mobiles
July 11th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
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August 1st, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I have two mobile phones, ofcourse old and damaged. Can they be sent for recycle and how much may i expect, being both handselts are of Nokia brand…
August 4th, 2008 at 10:29 am
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August 7th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I sent 2 phones off that have gone missing ????????????? So it is my word against their that they have the phones and at the end of the day I have lost out!
February 4th, 2009 at 7:51 am
a recent survey says that the un recycled mobile phones count has reached billions which was in millions last year. as of now I did trade in 2 nokia mobiles of mine with http://www.fonebank.com last year and this time too I shall trade in the un un used mobiles.
lets recycle and keep the environment clean.