Make Money with Your Old Cell Phones

2008 September 25

by Urbain

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 Some of these phones are a bit outdated and cannot be hooked into my current service provider.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!