Selling Cell Phones: Why Trading In
Makes Better Sense

Recycling Your Cell Phone Means More Cash and Less Trash

Surf the Internet, turn on the TV, scan a billboard, open a newspaper or magazine. Everyone wants to sell you cell phones.

If your phone still works but you want an upgrade, it doesn’t have to head to the cell phone graveyard (otherwise known as your junk drawer or trash can).

We’re not telling you to sell your cell phone, though we are talking about you getting something of value for it. At Flipswap, you can recycle your old model and get credit at a store that sells cell phones. Or you could get cash. Or make a donation to your favorite charity.

The average American adult buys a new cell phone every 12 months. That means more than 100 million of them are replaced each year. But many old phones still have plenty of life. Flipswap recycles phones to help those who can’t afford to buy one.

Feel good about doing good.

Family of Services

Tap into Flipswap’s free and easy-to-use family of services to help you recycle your old cell phone, get store credit at participating retailers that sell cell phones, or receive cash.

You’ll also keep more phones out of the garbage. Since launching in 2005, Flipswap has facilitated the trade-in of more than 800,000 phones. In 2008 alone, Flipswap’s program kept the equivalent of 80 tons of solid waste – much of it toxic—out of landfills in the U.S.