Trade your old mobile for pop concert tickets
I’m not a fan of Ticketmaster, generally – I don’t like their booking fees and I take my orders from 1990s rock totty – but the concert giant’s latest scheme gets the thumbs up from me.
In short, you can trade in your old mobile phones and/or iPods for a Ticketmaster giftcard. Find out the value of your item by visiting this site; if you want to proceed they’ll send you a stamped, addressed recycling envelope. For every phone recycled, Ticketmaster will also donate £1 to charity.
Apparently the phones can be traded in for up to £150. To give you a guide: my current phone, a Nokia 6500s that came free with my latest mobile contract, is worth £40.
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July 28th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Nice, my Omnia would get £90 but I could get £150 for CEX in Leeds or more on ebay. Damn Ticketmaster, like all those phone ads you see on TV they are never the best deal.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
There’s a load of sites that you can use to find the best price for your old mobile, I have a list here: http://money-watch.co.uk/4963/best-deal-old-mobile
And of course it’s also worth taking a look at eBay to see what prices your type of phone is currently fetching.
August 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Interesting article, I did not know this. I had see places where you could sell your phones and knew you could try your luck on EBAY, but this is a new twist.
I sometimes buy from Ticketmaster so I will have to check into this and dig out my old phones.
Thanks!
September 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
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October 29th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Brits threw away £5.5 billion of old mobile phones last year, why not make some money instead?
Mobile Phone Xchange (MPX) is one of the UK’s leading mobile phone recycling companies, I made over £110 from an old Nokia handset I had lying around.
Visit http://www.mobilephonexchange.co.uk/ to go green whilst making money!
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