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Afternoon chaps,

Has anyone used one of the above services such as mazuma etc?

Is it worth the hassle and does it take long for it all to be sorted?

Just i want to cancel my phone contract and it will cost 160 quid, and i have loads of phones lying around including a new nokia e71

Was wondering this myself. Got a couple of brickish late 90's phones in a draw somewhere.

I used the News of the world one as I exchange phoned for Debenhams vouchers (my sister wanted a fairly expensive Birthday gift from there!) I got alot more in Vouchers then I did for cash and It all went through really quickly - they updated me by email at every stage -managed to get my sisters present! my favourite bit was when she turned around to me and said she "wasnt doing gifts" this year!!

I went on the website and allegedly the total for the 6 phones is £240.

£160 to pay contract off and get an iphone on a different contract with a different provider

80 quid for beer.

sounds like a result to me

Id say go for it

Worth checking what you'd get for them on eBay, always surprises me how much people will pay for a second hand phone even if it is still locked to a specific network.

that was also another option i was thinking about

I've used a couple of firms, one of them was Mazuma.

They took a phone which Vodafone said they couldnt repair because of 'water damage' and paid me the full whack for it. I also sold a couple of older phones as well.

The whole process was fairly quick and the cheques arrived a lot sooner than I expected. I had to pay the recrded delivery postage for one place and got a record of postage for the other.

I would do it again, in fact I intend to do it when the one I hvae comes to the end of its contract!

one of the phones i intend to get rid off is on the contract i want to cancel.

will it make a difference? or do they only check to see if its nicked or not?

You dont send the sim card with itso how would they even know?

Tis easy and no hassle at all,i wouldnt bother with e bay its just hassle.

the IMEI number?

but then would only flag up if it has been nicked

i used mazuma and had no problems, wasnt even my phone, i found it.

Sold two of my old phones to Envirophone- quick and professional, one of them was broken, so they emailed me and said they'd either accept it at a lower price or mail it back free of charge, which was good of them (especially as both of them were broken as far as I was concerned).

You cunt! I want my phone back.

Good advice. I signed up to the News of the world MPX Exchange & sold my old phone. Theya sked me if I wanted to become an agent which I looked into & got all the details. I then went on to e-bay with the idea of buying phones & then selling them for a profit to MPX. Virtually all phones were selling for more than the going rate with MPX.

I currently have a LG touch screen that I want to sell. They offer £22 & I know I can get more like £40. Having said that the service is very good & hassle free.

Ive used envirfone before and they are very good, just send them your phones and they will value them for you. Its good if you have a broken phone as you wouldnt be able to sell it on.

I'd like to know how they make their money and exactly what their business model is. I presume they're being resold through a second hand site they own, or possibly eBay or something.

I'm pretty sick of the not particularly believable, de rigeur, environmentalism banded about by business as some sort of usp, when it benefits the environment less than it benefits their bottom line.

Yeah, they certainly aint going to Uganda

They sell them abroad.

I've only ever had one mobile phone...the coltan essential to its function is mainly found in the Congo, and has led to the deforestation of the habit of the mountain gorilla.

Proceeds from its mining have also helped fund the genocides in Rwanda and Burundi....

If more people stuck with this policy...the world would be a much better place for News Monkey and the African pygmies....think about it next time you're acquiring a phone you don't actually need... :nod:

 

But how will vacuous teens update their Twatter status to tell us what they're having for lunch if they don't keep upgrading their phones every two minutes?

Go to moneysavingexpert.com and go to mobile recycling.

Type in your make and model and it gives you a list of what recycling companies will pay you what. I sold my Nokia N95 for £90 and it was quick and easy

This thread reads like one of the fucking adverts on the telly...  Do you all work for Envirophone or something?

Won't somebody think of the children!