# Old Mobile Phones Can Fetch Thousands

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-mobile-phones-can-fetch-thousands/508826>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 4, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-mobile-phones-can-fetch-thousands/508826 "2009-09-04T04:21:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-mobile-phones-can-fetch-thousands/508826/1 "2009-09-04T04:21:12Z")

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Remember those old, clunky mobile phones? Well, if you still have one squirreled away somewhere, it’s pretty valuable. Story [here](http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing/article.html?in_article_id=490205&in_page_id=166&ito=1723).

Myself, I _still_ don’t have a cellphone, never have, but I do remember those things.

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-mobile-phones-can-fetch-thousands/508826/2 "2009-09-04T04:48:36Z")

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> Remember those old, clunky mobile phones? Well, if you still have one squirreled away somewhere, it’s pretty valuable. Story [here](http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing/article.html?in_article_id=490205&in_page_id=166&ito=1723).
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> Myself, I _still_ don’t have a cellphone, never have, but I do remember those things.

Most Motorola brick phones are still $50-100 on ebay , and that's assuming they're in great shape. I sold mine last year for around 80 to a Canadian collector.

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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-mobile-phones-can-fetch-thousands/508826/3 "2009-09-04T04:53:32Z")

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How interesting. What’s old is…well, it’s still old, but it’s collectible.

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-mobile-phones-can-fetch-thousands/508826/4 "2009-09-04T13:26:50Z")

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You don’t have a cell phone?  
What are you, Amish?

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**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-mobile-phones-can-fetch-thousands/508826/5 "2009-09-04T13:50:11Z")

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> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#):
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> You don’t have a cell phone?  
> What are you, Amish?

All our four children have cell phones. (They are all grown up, so they can make those crazy life choices by themselves.) But my wife and I have never had a cell phone.

Now get off my lawn.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-mobile-phones-can-fetch-thousands/508826/6 "2009-09-04T23:56:53Z")

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No cellphone, or “mobile” as they call them here. No car. It’s a wonderful sense of freedom. I know one Kiwi in particular whose quality of life vastly improved once he turned his phone off, stuck it in a drawer and never touched it again.

The wife carries one, though.