Comparing buyback programs

[HalJordan2488]

What does your company do with old blackberry devices or phones? Trash or sell? If sell, anyone have any good suggestions to legitimate companies that purchase old phones? Frankly, individual sales were too time consuming and HR didn't want us wasting time on that.

And honestly, selling on Craigslist was a nightmare. So many, many dead ends.

Feel free to talk about any of the companies that ripped you or anyone you know off. I was going to use flipswap, but a buddy of mine had a bad experience.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/Flipswa...ff-on-8EW2W.htm
Yeah, she's still mad about them.

Anyways, I sent my good working ones to www.fullcirclewireless.com

Received $81 a few months ago for a bunch of 8700c's we stopped supporting and the IT staff went out go-karting using it.

For devices that are damaged beyond repair I usually send to T-Mobile's recycling place, they give you free bags and boxes to recycle old equipment with all their upgrades.

[SuperClarkKen]

I was in a similar situation.

After hours of frustration and flakes from Craigslist, I just broke down and sold my phones and my dad's to Full Circle since they were the only one I knew that offered a FedEx shipping label. It was mainly some old Razrs and other clamshells, but they were all old and common, so I didn't get much. I only managed to sell about 3 of them on my own spare time on Craigslist. Factoring in the time I took from school and my own job and the amount of gas I spent (Plus, the fact that half the guys were flakes) it wasn't entirely worth it, economic and opportunity cost wise. Then again, it was worth selling my own personal old phone (a T-mobile sidekick). I also sold a few old Blackberrys as well.

Too lazy to redo all the math, so here's the pricelist for what I did to give you a general idea.
http://www.fullcirclewireless.com/image/pricelist.pdf

Bottom line on selling phones:
Old & busted: Buyback
New & shiny: Craigslist/Ebay

[HalJordan2488]

Bottom line on selling phones:
Old & busted: Buyback
New & shiny: Craigslist/Ebay[/QUOTE]

Words to live by

[grace12]

I was in a similar situation.