Can you hear me now?

Factual Questions
1

What do you do with old cell phones? Between ** Mr. C** and myself, we have at least 5. What do you do with them?
Can you sell them? I seem to recall that I can’t throw the battery out, but what about the rest of it?

2

There are programs where you can donate old cell phones to women’s shelters. They’re reprogrammed so all they can be used for is to call 911. Ask a cell-phone provider where you can do this in your area.

Robin

3

Yea! I didn’t know they could do that. (program for only 911) Brian said something about donating to charity, but I couldn’t imagine what a homeless person would want with a cell phone.

(no, I have no idea why I only thought of homeless shelters as a charity, it’s just how my mind works)

4

http://differentdawn.com/humanuspages/cellphones.html

http://www.spies.com/~afrp/donation.html

http://users.rcn.com/paws.nai/news07.html

http://www.verizonwireless.com/jsp/aboutus/community_service/hopeline_fact.jsp

5

If you’d like, I’d be happy to take one off your hands.

6

People give them to our thrift shops, we sell for about $5. People do buy them, I don’t know why as most of them need a card or codeo to activate the call screen.

7

Here in Finland we have really good trade-in deals even for obsolete phones. Many dealers will accept even two or more phones. For example my Nokia 3310 which isn’t really worth much, would give me 80 - 100 $ depending of the phone’s price I would upgrade to. But of course giving them to charity would be good for your karma (besides maybe there even isn’t that kind of deals in the US).