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February’s Most Popular Mobile Phone

Yes, it’s a copy and paste job because for the third month in a row we have the same top seller. The Nokia 6500 Slide is still the most sold mobile phone handset of 2010, so far. This means that it is now the most sold phone for three whole  months running although this month, it’s offer price has actually increased in value to a pretty darned good £40. Now, if ever there was a reason to use our ‘Price Alert’ feature, then this is surely it.

So, what phones are you all buying to replace this mainstay? We’d be over the moon to find out so please feel free to leave your comments below.

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User Review Balancing – Phase Two

To further make it immediately clear to our site users as to how a mobile phone recycling company has been rated, we’ve adopted a traffic light system for each recycler in our price comparison tables. A green background will highlight all recycling companies with either no reviews and rating as yet or with an average rating of  at least 4 stars out of 5. Next up, an amber background will indicate a phone recycler with an average review of either 2 or 3 stars out of 5. Finally, a red background will show users phone recyclers with a 0 or 1 star rating.

Again, we’d like to reiterate that we like to remain impartial on this subject and we leave the choosing of the phone recycler entirely up to you – we just thought that this would make it more straightforward to separate the higher and lower rated companies.

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User Review Balancing – Phase One

Eagle-eyed site visitors may have noticed some new comments appearing like the plague in our user reviews of the phone recycling companies. In the interests of trying to balance out the reviews for the companies in question, we have implemented a new automated review system which is based on the following logic:

• Most reviewers will only make a comment based on a bad experience, therefore we need to take in to account the number of trouble-free transactions that have taken place where no comments have been left.
• However, not all non-reviewed transactions can be guaranteed to be positive, therefore we have decided to insert one positive review (of 4 stars out of 4 – again for balance) for every 4th mobile phone sales transaction.

We believe this to be the fairest system of rating the mobile phone recyclers and to provide some much needed balance. All automated reviews ar, as mentioned, awarded 4 stars with the following comment, so you know where it came from: Automatic rating based on successful transaction.

If you have any other ideas or comments, please post them against this posting.

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Money4MyMobile add raft of New but Old Phones to our Catalogue

We don’t know whether the change from Love2Recycle to Money4MyMobile meant a bit of a Spring clean, but it seems that the company found a shed load of old mobile phones down the back of their sofa which they’ve decided to add to their phone recycling catalogue, and hence to ours. For those hoping for a quick buck, don’t get your hopes up – these are all zero valued mobile phones, unsurprisingly given the age of most of them! What this does mean though to all you recyclers out there is that there’s now a chance you’ll be able to recycle that dusty old phone of yours with mobiles2money rather than just slipping it in to the nearest wheelie bin.

Remember – if it’s on our site, you can dispose of it safely. Whether you’ll get any money for it is usually down to the age or popularity of the mobile phone in question. But anyway, if you’ve searched our phone recycling site before and drawn a blank, we highly recommend you to go and have another look.

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Love2Recycle Re-brand to Money4MyMobile

The mobile phone recycling and digital refurbishment company ANOVO who have been trading under the Love2Recycle.com brand, have just undergone a re-branding exercise of their phone recycling arm and have set up a new phone recycling web site under the name of Money4MyMobile.

As the company behind the name is still the same, expect pretty much business as usual from the phone recycler albeit with a newer and slicker web site. This will hopefully also translate in to higher offers for mobile phone handsets for mobiles2money users!

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Money For Your Phone – MFYP

We’re happy to welcome yet another new mobile phone recycler to our ever expanding catalogue, hopefully meaning the extra competitiveness will drive phone prices up further for you guys!

Money For Your Phone, or MFYP as they’re also known, have sprung up out from an IT company seeing a gap in the market for another mobile phone recycling company(?). However, just because they’re new to the arena, do not discount them as they are offering some of the best prices for your old mobile phone handsets. They also have some glowing testimonials on their web site which should hopefully reassure users that they provide a decent, quality service.

Their current requirements when selling a mobile phone to them are to just send in the handset and battery although they will accept chargers and other accessories should you wish to dispose of them. Please double check the requirements before sending any handset away though, in case they change in the future.

If you decide to sell or recycle your mobile phone to MFYP, please remember to write a quick review on our web site as this is a good way to spread the word for both good and bad service on our impartial phone recycling comparison site.

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Mobile Phone Recycler Reviews and Recycling Tips

Here at mobiles2money we positively encourage you, our users, to write reviews about any of the mobile phone recyclers you have sold or recycled your phone to. Whether they are positive or negative experiences, we urge you to make a quick comment on the service you have received so that other potential phone sellers have some more information on the recycling companies.

To this extent, we’re hoping to give our reviews system a bit of an overhaul so you can enter any order references and other information specific to your transaction so that we can have a word with the mobile phone recycler should there start to be a trend towards more negative than positive reviews. Of course, we also understand that people are more likely to write about a bad service experience than a good one, so we also ask you to take this in to account when deciding which recycling company to use. Alongside the phone recycler reviews, we have also given an indication as to how many mobile phones the particular company has bought so this will hopefully balance things up for you.

Where we do have an order number supplied that we can check on, or a particular number of negative reviews, we will ask for a comment from the mobile phone recycler to get their side of the story, so to try and provide a more balanced experience.

We hope you appreciate that some reviews could be fake and that we cannot check each one for authenticity. However, we believe it is better to give you the opportunity to read and write reviews of the recyclers rather than not to, as seems to be the case with certain Mobile Phone Recycling Comparison web sites!

As a footnote, we’ll just emphasize the steps that you should take to minimise any problems that others have had with their transactions.

Non-receipt of mobile phone

• To ensure that your mobile phone reaches it’s destination, we strongly suggest you use Royal Mail Recorded Delivery if your mobile is worth up to around £40 and Royal Mail Special Delivery if your phone is worth more. You can then track the progress of your phone and should it not arrive at the recycler, you can claim for the value on the postal insurance.

Phone Arrived in Damaged Condition

• Some of the supplied envelopes from the phone recyclers are not particularly well padded. We would strongly suggest you to either bubble wrap your phone before using the supplied envelope or use your own padded envelope with the Freepost address written or printed on to it, or indeed, just glue the supplied envelope on to the front of the padded one. While this does not guarantee your phone won’t get damaged in transit, it does the reduce the risks somewhat. Remember, if you have sent your phone via Recorded or Special Delivery and it gets damaged then you may be in line for compensation from the Royal Mail – please check the Royal Mail web site for more information.

Check you’ve Sent Everything that’s Required

• Different phone recyclers have different requirements when you send in your mobile phone so please check before doing so. Most will only require the handset and battery but some may require accessories like the manual, or battery charger – always check before packing the phone up.

Stick with Who you Know

• We’ve personally checked transactions with all of our phone recyclers and had no problems – if we had, they’d be booted off the site! However, a strong brand name usually comes with a bigger guarantee – emphasis on usually - we wish to remain impartial and leave the choosing of recyclers entirely up to you. We’ve got many phone recyclers on our site and some will be more familiar to you than others. If you’re unsure of a company, read a bad review somewhere else, or are just a bit worried, why not stick to one of the bigger names? The price offered might not be as high, but hopefully you’ll have more peace of mind.

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Phone Recycle Bank – Serious Mobile Phone Recyclers

We just thought we’d let you know that Phone Recycle Bank have recently been appointed as an authorised waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)  treatment facility by the Environment Agency.

Hoorah, we hear you say, but what does this actually mean? Well, by having WEEE Treatment Facility status it means not only can Phone Recycle Bank guarantee good value for your old mobile phone handsets, but that when you sell or send in a mobile phone to them for recycling, you can rest assured that if they can’t repair or reuse any parts of your old handset then it will be recycled correctly in accordance to European regulations. Marvellous!

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January’s Most Popular Mobile Phone

A new year, the same top seller. The Nokia 6500 Slide is the most sold mobile phone handset of 2010, so far. This means that it is now the most sold phone for two months running although this month, it’s offer price has dropped down to £38.50.

So, what phones are you all buying to replace this mainstay? We’d be over the moon to find out so please feel free to leave your comments below.

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