How many old phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players do you have that still work but are sitting useless in a drawer? A site called SecondRotation is like the company BuyMyBrokeniPod that Mike wrote about a few days ago, except you can sell more than just iPods. SecondRotation will take practically every brand of cell phone, digital camera, gaming console, GPS device, and MP3 player (including iPods and iPhones, but not any that are bricked, unfortunately for Mike). To get an estimate takes about 20 seconds. You find your device, check a few boxes detailing its condition, and you get an estimate on the spot. They pay for shipping. (See CrunchGear’s take).
The site launched in July, and bought about 850 items last month from consumers (up from 150 in August). The Waltham, Mass. startup has raised about $2 million in angel money and is working on raising another $1 million to $2 million for the third tranche of its A round of financing.
Here are the Top 20 items on traded in on the site and how much you can get for them:
- Palm Treo 650 – $85
- Blackberry 8700c – $66
- Blackberry Pearl 8100 – $141
- Motorola RAZR V3 – $36
- Motorola RAZR V3i – $100
- Palm Treo 600 – $52
- Microsoft Xbox – $30
- Siemens SX66 – $86
- Motorola KRZR K1 – $117
- Sony PSP – $69
- Blackberry 8800 – $218
- Motorola SLVR L7e
- Apple iPhone, (non-Bricked!
) – 8gb – $242 - Apple iPod mini 4gb – $39
- Palm Treo 680 – $185
- Apple iPod shuffle 1gb – $23
- Canon Powershot G2 – $43
- Blackberry Curve 8300 – $276
- AT&T 8525 (HTC TyTN) – $215
- Garmin Nuvi 660 Automobile Navigator – $313
Maybe I am completely missing something here, but why wouldn’t I just sell it myself on eBay? and keep the markup they are going to add for myself.
big deal,
this is nothing new…it’s just like many other ebay drop-off stores and sites – but this one caters to mobile devices and pays you on the spot instead of after the auction sale
Kind of sounds like those “Sell your Stuff on eBay” storefronts that I see every 4 blocks around my house. As Andrew said, why wouldn’t I just sell it myself on eBay? I can list an item there in 5 minutes.
If there were no market for those “Sell Your Stuff on eBay” stores, there wouldn’t be one on every fourth block.
I was surprised that they don’t list any satellite radios on that site.
How about a similar site/service, selling parts & accessories? I have antennae, power cords, batteries, etc., from deceased mobile phones, computers, satellite radios….
The tradeoff here is convenience vs. top dollar.
A quick look at eBay’s closing prices for the same items:
Treo 650 ($120-$160 on eBay vs. $85)
Apple iPod mini 4gb ($60-$80 vs. $39)
Canon Powershot G2 ($80-$120 vs. $43)
Garmin Nuvi 660 ($480-$550 vs. $313)
[broken items filtered out for this survey]
In SecondLife’s defense they are entitled to a profit, but I’m sure many of these items that SecondLife collects probably end up pn eBay.
If your comfortable selling on eBay, sell it yourself otherwise find someone who can help you.
Perhaps this is a safeguard for those afraid of being taken by Ebay Con Artists
This way the burden is now on the middleman
chandra, are you retarded?
We all know Chandra means SecondRotation, but the second (!) she started to write the name Sec… the big Pavlov-reflex kicked in; this just shows how strong the brand of Second Life is.
I would still prefer using eBay to sell my stuff.
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com
This is a great idea, as a person who has never used eBay to buy or sell as it seems like a pain in the ass. If I can give someone my “junk” and they give me money, that seems like a good idea!
P.S. I will still use the pawn shop when I need cash for my crack though.
I’ve mad an even better offer!
I stumbled upon an old wasteland full of Hardcore Mac Gamers (InsideMacGames.com) the other day.
Upon reading some of their miserable rants in their forum, I began to have sympathy for this bunch. That’s when I had a truly inspired idea (God speaking to me again). This is my standing offer to them:
“Hello there my Mac using friends,
We at MS value our many years of strategic alliance with all of you people.
We are so interested in your welfare that we are announcing the Mac Trade-in offer.
For every Mac that you turn in while purchasing a PC with Vista preinstalled, MS will send you a rebate for $75!
Upgrade from Macs to Windows, join the rest of the world and get $75 back to boot.
There is no limit on the number of macs you can turn in!”
The offer is only good for the InsideMacGames community for now, however anyone can register with them.
I know this is an extraordinary offer, but that’s just the way I am; extraordinary.
If this little experiment works out with this bunch I will expand it to the entire population of wretched Mac Users!
This could be my greatest accomplishment to date, ridding the world of Mac altogether! All for just a few Billion dollars.
Sometimes I scare myself.
actually, today you can sell your Treo 650 for around $150-185 on craigslist and cut eBay out as well.
Do they say what the do with the products ? do they resell them afterwards? do they send them to other places that could use them, like asia or africa? do they recycle them?… in the end, I would think the goal is to get other people to use these things as oppose to be sitting in our basements… some peoples outdated products are other people new products.
pls can somebody enlighten me more about this fantastic prices pls i am a nigerian and i really love to import the goods