Advice on selling old cell phones

[disneysteve]

In the course of decluttering, I've gotten to our stock of old cell phones. We have quite a few (about a dozen). They range from fairly recent to rather old. I want to get rid of them and would love to get whatever I can for them.

Can you suggest some places for me to research their value (other than ebay, of course)? I know there are sites that buy old phones. I just don't know which are legit and best to deal with.

Any tips would be appreciated. I'm sure at least some of these phones still have some resale value.

[Green43]

Gazelle.com is my first choice. But they usually want late model phones.

http://www.cashforcomputerscrap.com/ is my second, they buy old electronic items and boards. Note be careful there is another company with ALMOST the same name that is a scam in my opinion. I have delt with these guys before myself and they are on the up and up IMHO.

[QuarterMillionMan]

One of the sites I sold my iPhone 3GS to low balled me after giving me a higher quote. It works like this. You go to the site, specify your phone, determine its condition (ie, broken, fair, very good condition, immaculate, etc.), and the site quotes you a price. It then allows you to print out a free shipping label to ship your phone to them. When they received my phone they called me back saying they could give me $75 and not the $150 quoted because it had scratches or other cosmetic signs of wear even though I labeled my phone as "fair" when I went to the site. They had my phone so I didn't have much leverage. We were able to negotiate the price up to $90 but I didn't get the $150 which was quoted. I believe the name of the site was cash for iphones. It was a bad experience overall and I'd rather go the Ebay route next time.

[greenskeeper]

donate for the tax write-off

[disneysteve]

donate for the tax write-off

I thought about that. How do you suggest assigning value to them for the deduction?

[corn18]

Donate them. Deduct them from your taxes. Feel good about yourself. Value can be determined from Ebay. If it's less than $500, the IRS won't come a knockin'. If it's more, they still won't. You don't need to be exact.

http://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com

[creditcardfree]

This is the suggestion by Clark Howard about 10 months ago.

[snafu]

I bought my latest phone from a private seller on our local Buy 'n Sell site [Kijijji + name of city] having researched what I thought was fair market value. Likewise sold my [hated] 3 month old phone for 20% discount which I saw as fair market value. I've sold two previous phones locally as parents want cheap phones on their provider for their younger children