Veni Vidi Vici
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Just wondering how the places that buy your old mobile phones make money? Do they just sell the phone? Any ideas?
I believe they get shipped to developing countries.
Once they arrive at a collection facility, the phones are powered up to see if everything works. Some cosmetic work is done, personal data is removed and new software is often loaded on to prepare the phone for reuse. More than half of the phones received by recyclers can be refurbished and reused with minor repairs. Refurbished phones may be resold in the U.S. to smaller carriers or distributed as replacements for phones that break while under warranty. Refurbished phones may also be sold internationally. The phones that can't be reused are sent to smelters who reclaim the valuable materials they contain.
i am sure alot of them are re sold, they are not going to pay £100 for a nokia 5800 then strip it down, maybe for the crappy phones they pay £1 for.
found this, from US but same idea
I have heard (dont quote me on this) that there is a metal only found in laptops and mobiles called coltan. This metal is stripped from the products and sold on, at a price much higher than gold is nowadays
I did use one the other week and got £180 for my nokia n96
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