[ale] [OT] A good place to by a used smart phone

[Adrya Stembridge]

Phones contain small amounts of gold.  I used to chuckle seeing the
"recycle your phone here" buckets at the grocery stores.  Free money for
someone with the initiative to collect large numbers of dead/old cell
phones.


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> Hi Chuck,
>
> This may be an answer that is not an answer.  However, gazelle.com is
> always buying old phones from people.  They must sell them somehow.  I
> don't know how.  But it might be worth a look.
>
> If you wanted to change carriers, you could try ting.com, which resells
> the sprint network.  They have cool pay as you use it pricing.  They also
> sell unlocked phones.  I don't know about pricing, and I think the phones
> are new.  But, they have several different models and pricing arrangements.
>  Might be worth a look.
>
> Radio shack is a reseller for several carriers aside from the big 3.  They
> also have some pay as you go plans.  Might be worth checking with them too.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 6/17/2013 2:15 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> My wife surprised me yesterday, but no checking my phones and just
>> throwing my clothes into the washer.
>>
>> My Samsang Galaxy S Virbant, is beyond dead. Even a bag of rice can't
>> help me. The washer manage to be the screen to the point that touching
>> only breaks off more glass.
>>
>> So I am look for a place to get a good unlock phone.  I like to be
>> some where local. I tired of E-Bay.
>>
>> T-Mobile only sale me one if I change my plan, and I have such an old
>> plan that it would cost me more to change.
>>
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