Have an old cellphone lying around? Not sure how to type eBay or Craigslist into your browser? Want to receive approximately the going rate for your gear but not a penny more? Don’t trust the vagaries of the invisible hand of the markets? Boy, have we got a site for you. Granted, the eBay/Cragislist experience is fraught with pain and sadness. I’ve all but given up on eBay and Craigslist is a lesser evil. But now there’s SecondRotation.com. You find your item — a phone, a console, etc. — and tell the system the condition. You print out a shipping package, ship it to the company, and they pay you a rate gleaned from multiple sources that should, in theory, reflect the real value of the device. SecondRotation then sells the thing again, hopefully making a profit. When you visit the site don’t be surprised if it looks like one of the parked spam pages you get when you type in the wrong URL. It’s fairly barebones and it seems to work, so more power to them. This definitely cuts down on the risk and agony of surfing the ‘Bay and makes selling your old crap a snap. Website → Read More
How many old phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players do you have that still work but are sitting useless in a drawer? A site called SecondRotation is like the company BuyMyBrokeniPod that Mike wrote about a few days ago, except you can sell more than just iPods. SecondRotation will take practically every brand of cell phone, digital camera, gaming console, GPS device, and MP3 player (including iPods and iPhones, but not any that are bricked, unfortunately for Mike). To get an estimate takes about 20 seconds. You find your device, check a few boxes detailing its condition, and you get an estimate on the spot. They pay for shipping. (See CrunchGear’s take). The site launched in July, and bought about 850 items last month from consumers (up from 150 in August). The Waltham, Mass. startup has raised about $2 million in angel money and is working on raising another $1 million to $2 million for the third tranche of its A round of financing. Here are the Top 20 items on traded in on the site and how much you can get for them: Palm Treo 650 – $85 Blackberry 8700c – $66 Blackberry Pearl 8100 – $141 Motorola RAZR V3 – $36 Motorola RAZR V3i – $100 Palm Treo 600 – $52 Microsoft Xbox – $30 Siemens SX66 – $86 Motorola KRZR K1 – $117 Sony PSP – $69 Blackberry 8800 – $218 Motorola SLVR L7e Apple iPhone, (non-Bricked! ) – 8gb – $242 Apple iPod mini 4gb – $39 Palm Treo 680 – $185 Apple iPod shuffle 1gb – $23 Canon Powershot G2 – $43 Blackberry Curve 8300 – $276 AT&T 8525 (HTC TyTN) – $215 Garmin Nuvi 660 Automobile Navigator – $313 → Read More
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