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May 11, 2008 9:56 am US/Eastern
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CBS4 Your Money: Used Electronics
Two Websites Give You Cash For Your Old Gizmos
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
With technology changing so quickly these days, chances are you have some old electronics sitting around your house gathering dust.
CBS4 consumer reporter Al Sunshine found its easy to turn that trash into treasure and convert the dust collecting junk into cash.
Like most families, Clare Coleman says she and her family accept that we live in a disposable world.
"I've broken cell phones, they've dropped and it's not my fault and then you get a new one," said Coleman.
Coleman says her family has a house full of gadgets and when the batteries died, or when her kids wanted newer models, it was out with the old and in with new. With gizmos piling up, Coleman said she didn't know what she was going to do with old unused or broken ones until she found
buymytronics.com – a website which buys old or broken iPods, Cell Phones / PDAs, iPhones, Zunes and Game Consoles.
"You tell the computer what kind of iPod you have, what's wrong with it, is anything broken, is the battery dead," said Coleman. It then tells you how much they will pay for it.
Coleman said she made $30 for each of her iPods with worn down batteries. She shipped them to the company for free and within a couple of weeks received a check.
"My site offers a reliable, fast and easy way to get money for your used and broken gadgets," said buymytronics.com CEO Bretty Mosley.
Mosley says they salvage the working parts from some of the gadgets they receive and put them into other broken units to repair them. They then sell them as used on Ebay, or in bulk to other resellers.
Another option is a site called
ecoNEW which offers Sam's Club membership gift cards worth the value of the used or broken electronics.
The site accepts MP3 players, gaming consoles, computers, printers, laptops, digital cameras and camcorders.
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