Ways To Sell Old Mobile Phone Handsets

Most mobile phones have a shelf life because users want better handsets with better tools and features in their pocket. Once a new phone is got the old one often lays unused and is quickly forgotten about. Here are some of the ways they can be sold.

It is better to sell the old mobile phone as soon as the new one arrives because it will continue to lose value; the longer it is left unsold, the less it will fetch. It's not too late though, even old mobiles can fetch a fair price; by recycling these gadgets money can be made and nothing is wasted.

The usual, more traditional ways of selling old mobiles include selling to friends, colleagues or family members. Before the web became commonplace it was also popular to sell mobile phones in classified advertisements in Loot or local papers, even in village shop windows you may have caught a handset for sale.

Today with the web as widespread and developed as it is, auction websites such as Ebay have allowed people to sell their old mobiles and have full control over their price and delivery of the item. Ebay reigned for a while as the best place to make some money for any old items including mobile phones.

From the new millennium onwards we have witnessed recycling websites the specialise solely in the buying and recycling of mobile phones. These websites have appeared and risen due to increasing public awareness of recycling. Almost every household in the United Kingdom has a recycling collection of general household waste ever fortnight. Add to this awareness the hugely rising use of mobile phones in all age groups and you end up with recycling websites that want all the old phones.

Old mobile phones have value locked in them. The components inside can be re-used to make new phones. Recycling sites will buy old or new handsets even if they are broken or faulty. Every mobile contains a small amount of gold which can be used again and again because it never wears out. Components that cannot be re-used can be further broken down until they can be recycled in pretty much anything such as another gadget.

The choice of how to sell a phone can be decided with a few factors. Selling to friends can fetch good prices but they could be unreliable and difficult to find a buyer. Selling on Ebay could fetch the most money but there is a delay in receiving the money and effort involved in setting up the auction and delivering the item. Selling via a phone recycling website ensures they pay what they quote and is very easy to do but the handset may not make as much money. We recognise that the amount of time spent finding a buyer may be equal to the worth of ones' time in money saved by taking the hassle-free choice of recycling.