July 5, 2010
How to sell mobile phones
What is it with mobile phone contracts? Every single year you get offered yet another phone. It’s a though somehow this year’s must-have gizmo makes up for the appalling cost of making phone calls on a mobile network. This probably explains the sudden emergence of all those TV advertisements urging me to sell my mobile for mobile phone recycling
I used to have a foolproof way around these bargain offers. I would ask what is the lowest tariff they company could give me if they wanted to keep me (and not give me a new phone I did not want. For a few years this worked fine. Then I realised I was making virtually no calls on my mobile phone – so I canned the contract and went on to pay as you go.
On the face of it this might seem a daft decision. I have to pay for every call and every text. And the tariff is I believe, quite eye-watering. But here’s the thing – I don’t make any calls. For me, the mobile phone exists as a medium for people to call me – except they never do. So far this year I have made £20 of credit last until July.
From this little insight you might guess that I am fairly immune to all those TV adverts that promise you money for your unwanted phones. Let’s face it if your mobile phone service provider puts a value of zero on your phone, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that its value is not unadjacent to zero.
But no. If the adverts are appearing – it must mean that people are sending their phones in. To my mind this is a bit like all those fools that send off gold in an envelope, expecting to get anything like a fair price. It just isn’t going to happen.
SO the bottom line is. If you want to risk having an unknown person get access to all your numbers in exchange for a few pennies, send your phone off to phones r us. If on the other hand, you are not a mug, do what the rest of us do. Stick the phone in a drawer. Who knows – you might actually need it.
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