How It Works

Trading in your device is simple and only takes a few minutes.

1. Find your device – Search for your device using the manufacturer or model number (ex: Razr, BlackBerry 8320, Motorola, iPhone). Use the picture in the search results to be sure that you’re trading in the right device. Next, answer a few questions to get the real-time trade-in value for your device. Then, provide some contact information, and you’re ready to ship.

2. Ship it for free – Flipswap offers a free shipping label. Just print it out and slap it on a package to ship your device in for free. (Did we mention it’s free?)

3. Get paid – Step 3 is the easiest. Depending on your payment option, expect to receive your payment about 3 weeks after your device(s) arrive at Flipswap’s warehouse.

Plant a tree with Flipswap’s reLeaf Project

Flipswap is able to re-purpose nearly all of the millions of mobile devices that we receive each year. Unfortunately, some of those devices can not be reused and must be recycled. Flipswap has always insisted on the most eco-friendly methods from our recycling partners. Now we’re taking it a step further – we now pledge to plant a tree for every device that is recycled through the inStore service.

Flipswap estimates that almost 450,000 trees has been planted through the reLeaf initiative since 2008. More trees mean cleaner air to breathe, less carbon dioxide to heat things up and cleaner water for drinking and washing your hybrid car.

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Where do the devices go?

With Flipswap you can give your device a second life. More and more of the eWaste that is filling our landfills is made up of fully functional devices. Flipswap makes sure that mobile devices can live out their full functional lives. When you trade in a device with Flipswap, we wipe all of your data, polish it up, and put it back out into the hands of someone who really needs a device. It’s a no waste solution that you can feel good about.