Top Five Mobile Phone Recycling Sites

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• Good review Tazz – is there any research on who actually pays up the prices quoted – this would be even more helpul as i have experienced some sites that are a bit misleading on what they consider a “working” phone – i would also like to know what they do with the phones as i’ve heard some horror stories about land-filling of broken ones?

• This is what MoPay say they use the old phones for:

  “In certain parts of the world like Africa, the mobile phone is fast becoming the number one form of communication because landline access is limited in certain areas and owning a mobile is the most convenient way to communicate and do business.

  Any phones that we receive which cannot be reused we recycle them in accordance to the WEEE Directive and break them down for parts which can be reused such as metals including copper, silver and gold. Any plastic casing is melted down and used for mouldings such as road cones!”

  So it sounds like you’re doing a good deed, and getting some cash for your old phone!

• My favourite phone recycling company is http://www.mobilephonexchange.co.uk/, because they seem to pay more for my mobiles. It’s nice to get paid for recycling!

• Recycling cannot get any easier than with ‘Money For Your Phone’ a new mobile phone recycling company who are offering incredible prices. Check what yours is worth at mfyp.co.uk

• The site at cashformobiles.info looks interesting that it has a new take on mobile phone recycling comparisons.

• i am wondering what site i go on to sell my old c.ds, d.v.ds and computer games.could you please help me? shelley townsley

• If you are thinking of reclycing your old mobile, do not think of using selloldphones, they are a rip off. If you research them on the internet you will find lots of people like myself have sent them mobiles and are still waiting for money. I am still waiting after 4 months. I have used 2 of the ones mentioned in this review and they were excellent, so please aviod selloldphones at all costs and tell anyone else thinking of selling too as they appear to offer the best price if you can get your money from them.

• I have a very bad experience with Mobilephone xpress

  Sent in a perfectly working Nokia 95, with no scratches on the display (and yes the display was working fine), I even protected the display with the original Nokia packing material for the display.

  On their web site they offered £95.

  The check came in with a mere £25, reason was a damaged display (very nicely the most expensive part of the phone)

  I phoned them and the guy said that this was the price because they couldn’t start the phone, i.e. was PIN locked.
  I explained him that I had tested all features of the phone and disabled all PIN’s (and the battery was fully charged).

  He would look at it.

  I have not been able to get them on the phone since.

  I decided that I would NOT accept their offer (that’s what it is, an offer and I don’t have to accept it) and wanted my phone back (in the same condition that I sent it to them, with registered mail and special delivery). I have sent the check back to themwith registered mail and special delivery. I’ve checked the RM website and they have signed and accepted all my letters.

  Surprice surprice they never reply or communicate at all.

  I’m very close to go to the small claims court as I have enough of this cowboy outfit.

• Thanks these for this unbiased review.

• selloldphones.co.uk are a rip off. They don’t have a telephone number to call them! I should have noticed this before using them as it would have started alarm bells ringing.
  Nowhere does it state that they want the charger, other sites clearly state what to send and most say no charger please. Only after alot of looking did I find the terms and conditions where they state “phone and charger”.
  I was using a nokia n95 8gb for two years and sold it after an upgrade, the cheque came back saying they downgraded the phone as it had faulty lcd lines accross the screen! There was nothing wrong with it! The cheque was for £50 less than stated on the website. I can’t get hold of them to complain or ask for the phone back.
  TOTAL CON – DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!

• I am absolutely disgusted with Mobile Phone Xchange and WISH I HAD NEVER SENT THEM MY PHONE.

  The process of getting a quote and sending it off is very straightforward, however getting an honest assessment of your phone and receiving the money quoted is a completely different story.

  I sent off a perfectly working phone after being quoted £119 on the website, and a week or so later received only £35 in my bank. When I enquired about the payment I was told the phone has a PIN on it and couldn’t be assessed properly. Once I told him I had removed the PIN before sending it, I received an email saying that I was correct; however the slide function of the phone was not working……..

  I was told I would receive £85 instead of the £35 because it is a working phone, but a) the slide function worked perfectly when I sent it via special delivery to the company, and b) I haven’t even received this extra payment.

  There is nothing wrong with the slide movement on my phone, and I also find it suspicious that they didn’t mention this at first, when ‘the PIN was locked’. I am not the first person to question the honesty that this company uses before paying out any money for your phone, and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU AVOID THIS COMPANY AND SEND YOUR PHONE ELSEWHERE.

  ALSO, I am particularly annoyed at the moment because, in trying to resolve this matter, I have just been kept on hold for AN HOUR AND A HALF without anybody picking the phone up to talk to me.

  I will not give up on trying to get my money back, and am starting by contacting consumer direct. To avoid being in the same situation as me, please do more research into these companies before you send them your phone, and spread the word about Mobile Phone Xchange.

• Hi Sara,

  read my post from 28 Nov 2009, a copy carbon of your experience.

  Excusses (in that order)
  1. The phone had a PIN (not true)
  2. Something was wrong/broken (not true)
  3. No further communication possible with this THIEF and CON of a company

  Like Sara say;

  AVOID THIS COMPANY AT ALL COST !!!!!!!!!!!!

  I have given the BBC Consumer Watchdog program this information also, but they don’t seem not interested.

  Maybe you should also contact the BBC Consumer watchdog

• hi, i wish i had read your two comments re mobilephonexchange. i’ve fallen victim of this company. i can,t get hold of them via the telephone. they emailed saying they have’nt received my phone. collectplus services have confirmed it was delivered, on checking the tracking service is also states it has been delivered. i have sent an email stating this, but i’ve just been ignored.

  this company should be closed down

  AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Mobile phone xchange are such a rip off wish I had read this before I sent them my phone. Getting a quote and sending phone could not be easier.

  But them after a week or so of sending the phone I got an email saying after inspection my phones value had dropped from £88 to £23 because of a White spot on the screen that I don’t remember ever existing.

  So I phoned them and after finally getting through to them (was on hold for 15mins) I ask them to return my phone then they tell me I have to pay them £10. Bunch of rubbish.

  I’m contacing watchdog

• while these recycling sites can be good for quickly selling you old phones, quite often with the more recent devices you can get more on places like ebay

• Exactly the same here. Recieved an email saying there was white spots on the screen which I know there was not. Have just paid them £10 to return my phone after they offered me £23 from a quoted £98.

  I’ll only ever go with a well known comany in the future even if they do quote a little less.

  Hopefully I’ll get my phone back. I’ve read several reports now that people have not had their phone returned at all or even recieved the wrong phone all together.

• I traded in my phone Mobile Phone Xchange and it went without hitch. I sold my old Nokia 6210 which they said was worth £71 cash but i got more cos I went for a Debenhams voucher. When I got my envelope I added another old phone which I hadn’t told them about (they said i could add more in the bag without telling them), a Nokia 7380, and a few days later I got paid a little bit more on my giftcard voucher. for all those who had bad problems, you should’ve sent it special delivery and packaged it a bit more, it could’ve got damaged on the way.

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• DO NOT USE – SCAM ARTISTS!

  I sent them my Sony Ericcson at the end of January, stupidly because they offered £5 more for it than other sites. After waiting for six weeks and my Order Status not changing, I emailed them to ask what was happening. In fact, they didn’t reply to my first email but replied very quickly when I emailed a second time threatening to contact Watchdog and Trading Standards! They claimed that they’d never received my phone, but told me that as it was sent using their Freepost service I could contact Royal Mail who apparently track all Freepost packages and refund me the cost of the lost phone. Two emails and several attempts to contact Royal Mail later, I discovered that the info SellOldPhone gave me was cr*p…in fact, they are just billed monthly for their total Freepost costs, and as they are the ‘customer’ with this service, THEY are the only ones who can claim for lost parcels. Several emails later explaining this during which they still maintained I had to claim to Royal Mail, and now they say (eventually, are several chase emails) that their Terms & Conditions state that it’s my responsibility to ensure the phone arrives with them safely. As the phone was only worth £35 to them and I’ve NEVER had any problems using online recycling companies before (namely Mopay.co.uk), I’d trusted SellOldPhone would be ok, but in future I will definitely use Mopay.

  Stay away from SellOldPhone. Please!

• My above comments relate to SellOldPhone if you hadn’t guessed it!

• will never use mobile phone exchange again what rip offs

• I really wouldn’t advise using some mobile phone recycling companies. I recentley decided to leave my job working for one of these companies for moral reasons. Many of the quotes given are never paid out. Customers are often told that their phones are broken when they are in full working order and are worth more than is ever paid out. Some of these companies even rip charities off, saying that the funds go to a charity, when usually the charity gets the pence and the recycling comapny gets the £100’s of pounds. Many of these companies employees are also given the chance to earn high comission, so the more the general public/ charities are ripped off, the more likeley the employee is to hit their target and get a massive bonus. I would reccommend not using some of these companies, eventhough they work well in environmental terms, they would rather pocket your cash for themselves.

• Do not use selloldphone.co.uk they will take your phones and do anything not to pay you . you have been warned !

• Simply Drop – Royal Mail.

  Top drawer. Received £91 for my Omnia when other site were offering 40-50 pounds. Quick and simply, with no hassles about ‘broken’ or ‘locked’ phones.

• WeBuyAnyPhone.com pays out only what it states. working or non working and even has a list to show which is which. It is one of the few that give charities what their phones are worth and not a few pounds per phone! i would use them again

• I used royal mail simply drop and they had a very fast service, didn’t mind that my battery was dead and the screen was cracked, they still paid £12 for a sony ericson w850i.

• I sent my iPhone 3G 16GB to Earth Mobile two weeks ago I have not heard from them since. I have tried phoning them on several occasions but the phone goes to answer phone all the time and also e-mailed them on several occasions with no response. I certainly do not recommend this company even though they would pay out over £200 for the phone.

• hi i would like to know who i need to contact to complain about non payment after they received my phone by special delivery and said they had sent cheque on 29th june and still not received payment. have sent 6 emails and had no replies from’sell your old phone for money’ am really unhappy!

• I sent my Sony Ericksson C905 in the post about a month ago. I paid for special delivery and it arrived on the 22nd july 2010. i received a confirmation email stating i will have my cheque within 14 days……SURPRISE SURPRISE…..Its not here! i decided to go onto Erth Mobiles website to find a contact number…..and it states on there that Earth Mobile has Ceased trading as of today!!! Wheres my money?Wheres my phone? and where do i go from here?!

• Hi!

  I had sent my phone off to Earth Phone 3 months ago and still haven’t received the cheque! Last month, I contacted the sales manager there and he assured me that the funds were there ready so he could see no reason why the cheque hasn’t been dispatched. One month on and I still haven’t received it. It was only for £28 but thats beside the point.

  Now I tried to contact them to find that they have now stopped trading, so now I am a phone down, £28 down and really quite angry!!

• They been fobbing me off to for the past 5 weeks, contacted Trading Standards today after I saw they had ceased trading, they told me i need to send them a letter stating they had breached there contract. But it is highly unlikely to get anything from them as they’re probably long gone by now as they’re a Ltd company. Been told i got Slim to No chance of getting the money or the phone back though!! Theiving B******’s!!!!!!

• Can you please write a review for a fake firms, SellOldPhone.co.uk, who dos not pay for you phone. They are the biggest thieves I have ever come across.

  Whenever I try to get in touch with SellOldPhone.co.uk‏, they keep on sending an automated email which makes no sence. I haven’t received any money from them.

  First they kept on saying it is being varified, which took few days, now they keep saying it has been varified and I should get a cheque anytime, but still I haven’t received anything from them. Now they are expecting me to wait for another 14 days before then can look into my order and reissue the cheque, which I am 100% possitive they have issues any cheques for my phone anyway.

  Please beaware, they do offer good prices which they are not going to pay. I have already started talking to BBC 3 counties Radio and will also take legal action if I can

• Not sure why so many people have had problems with Mobile Phone Exchange?! I’ve used them twice now and they’ve been fine, although I did send my phone recorded delivery.