Make Money with Your Old Cell Phones

Having recently moved, I found a small box in my “stuff to do” pile filled with old cell phones from past service providers.  Some of these phones are a bit outdated and cannot be hooked into my current service provider.  I was going to throw them out but thought maybe they could be recycled, so I took a look online to see what I could do with them.

It turns out that not only can these old phones be recycled, but you can actually get paid for them at a site called Cell For Cash.

The process is simple.  First, you visit the site and select the manufacturer (or service provider) and model of your old cell phone.  The manufacturer and provider list is extensive and includes:

• Audiovox Cell Phones
• Boost Cell Phones
• Danger Cell Phones
• Firefly Cell Phones
• Hop-On Cell Phones
• HP Cell Phones
• HTC Cell Phones
• Kyocera Cell Phones
• LG Cell Phones
• Mitsubishi Cell Phones
• Motorola Cell Phones
• NEC Cell Phones
• NewGen Cell Phones
• Nextel Cell Phones
• Nokia Cell Phones
• Palm Cell Phones
• Panasonic Cell Phones
• Pantech Cell Phones
• RIM Cell Phones
• Sagem Cell Phones
• Samsung Cell Phones
• Sanyo Cell Phones
• Sharp Cell Phones
• Siemens Cell Phones
• Sony Ericsson Cell Phones
• Torq Cell Phones
• UTStarcom Cell Phones
• Vertu Cell Phones
• Cingular Cell Phones
• Nextel Cell Phones
• Sprint Nextel Cell Phones
• T-Mobile Cell Phones
• Verizon Cell Phones

Once you’ve selected your phone, you submit your information online, send the phone and then get paid for the old cell phone.  Many non-profit or school organizations use this service in their fund-raising efforts.

In case you’re wondering, you don’t even have to pay shipping.  The service provides a box and prepaid shipping label for the phone you specify.  Once you ship the phone, the company verifies that you sent what you said you were going to send, and then cuts you a check.  The process takes around a month and a half or two months (45-60 days).

There’s no point in throwing your cell phone away if it can be recycled or reused.  And if you can get paid for that old phone, that’s even better!

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