Recycle Your Old Electronics Through E-Bay Rethink
30 August 2006I’d never even heard of this, but FireFinance points out that E-Bay has a great program where you can make some money from the old electronic devices you have sitting around the house, such as cell phones and computers. They’ve partnered with a few other companies that will buy your stuff – generally you pick from a set of descriptions, state the condition, and they quote you a price and pay for shipping. If it looks good after an inspection, they pay you what they quoted you. If you don’t want to make money off it (there are some of these hard to understand people out there), they have options to recycle it or donate the proceeds to several good charities such as Goodwill or March of Dimes. You can check out the E-Bay Rethink program here – FireFinance made about $60 from some old cell phones, so it’s a good thing to take a look at before you toss that old electronic junk.
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2 Responses to “Recycle Your Old Electronics Through E-Bay Rethink”
October 1st, 2006 at 1:28 am
Thanks for mentioning our post and discussing it.
Cheers,
FIRE Finance
October 17th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
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