We have received a few emails recently about bad service received from Skyphones. Now, mobiles2money has anonymously tested all the mobile phone recycling companies featured on our site and, barring some slow payments, has not had any trouble with any of them – hence their inclusion on our site.

However, we do not have the resources to regularly test these companies as often as we would like so if standards are slipping we won’t necessarily notice this ourselves. We obviously receive recycler ratings from you, our users, but we cannot always rely on these to paint a balanced picture – see our post on user review balancing if you haven’t already.

On top of this, we do receive emails as well, usually when things haven’t quite gone according to plan. Whilst we cannot act on individual emails, when several come in over a short period, it can set alarm bells ringing and this is what has happened here. From this point, we will then check our own sources for any issues that may be arising.

In this case, it seems there are a lot of angry Skyphones customers who have not been treated too well and it also seems Skyphones are not answering their phones to customers either – we haven’t been able to get through either.

Due to this, we have taken the decision to remove Skyphones from our comparison site as we would not want anyone else to potentially lose out by using their services. We have also taken the decision not to add the phones of ‘Fone Crazy’ to our catalogue as they seem to be owned by the same company.

We hope this is just a temporary glitch with Skyphones and all their customers will receive their mobile phone payments in full, but until that can be proven, we will keep them from appearing in our phone comparison tables. Unfortunately, we do not have any addition contact details for the company so we’re all in the same boat about being unable to contact them.

As a footnote, please remember to read our mobile phone recycling guide.

Yep, we’re so sick and tired of the Nokia XpressMusic 5800 being the most sold and recycled mobile phone that we can’t be bothered to make a fuss about it – come on people, recycle something different for a change!

Until a new mobile phone takes the number one spot, we’re omitting this post for future months. Oh, and if you haven’t realised it, that blinkin’ phone was the most popular for January and February – so much for a new start for the new Year!

We got bored of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mobile’s dominance of the phone selling charts, so didn’t even bother doing this last month. But, this darned phone is still the most sold and recycled so we thought we better let you know. We sure hope that this changes in the New Year though as it would be nice to give another mobile phone a chance!

Here’s the rundown lowdown for December:

• Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
• Blackberry 8520 Curve
• Apple iPhone 3G 8Gb
• Nokia N95
• Sony Ericsson Satio

A few changes there but some far too familiar names too!

Starting on December 8th, Phone Recycle Bank (PRB) will be offering two new forms of phone handset payment to its customers – BACS and Paypal (assuming that the Wikileaks supporters haven’t destroyed it by then!). Even better news than this though, is that if you use your own envelope when sending in your old mobile phone to them – and you can still use the FREEOPOST address – you will get an additional two English pounds paid to your account! Bravo.

To finish up our recent splurge on mobile phone recyclers, we’ve got WeBuyAnyPhone.com, not to be confused with a similar sounding company that advertises on TV a lot with an annoying yet catchy theme tune. They would only want to buy cars from you, not your handy.

The prices we’ve seen for their handset offers could do with some improving although they seem to be piggybacking off the Mopay phone recycling service, which would explain it. However, just like Cashinmyfone, they do offer a nicely padded FREEPOST envelope for you to entrust your old mobile phone to.

As with all of our mobile phone recyclers, if you have used their service and wish to make a comment, you can either do so here on the blog or in our reviews section for each individual recycling company.

The Cashinmyfone web site is owned and operated by mobile phone recycling stalwarts Envirofone, so it’s built on safe ground and has sound financial backing.

Cashinmyfone are currently the top payers on some of the most popular mobile phones, such as the Nokia N95 8Gb, which is good news for you people, and they also come up trumps with their ’sellers pack’ which consists of a padded FREEPOST envelope – should help avoid that Royal Mail induced damage.

EcoUrMobile offer some pretty competetive recycling prices for the most common mobile phones. They don’t have as an extensive catalogue of phones as some of our phone recyclers but we’re sure that this will grow over time.

Pretty standard stuff otherwise. EcoUrMobile use a FREEPOST address but also supply an envelope, which is always a bonus, and have a variety of payment methods on offer ranging from a cheque to PayPal. Mobile phones of any condition will be considered but please make sure you are aware of the pricing structure for damaged phones, as you should do with any mobile recycler, before sending it off.

We’ve had a bit of a blitz here at mobiles2money and have added several new mobile phone recycling companies to our burgeoning collection.  We’ll talk about each of these in detail so first up we have 8Mobile.com.

8Mobile.com pride themselves on the ease of use of their web site. Of course, that’s not too much of an issue anyway to you, oh mobiles2money user, as not only do we have a simple to use web site, but once you’ve found the make and model of mobile phone you wish to sell and recycle, you’re whisked directly the the corresponding page of the phone recycler you have chosen.

Buy anyway, 8Mobile.com will transfer the money that they’ve agreed with you, in to your bank account within 48 hours of receiving your mobile phone, and you can’t say fairer than that!

We give up. Doesn’t seem much point in making these posts any more as every month the most sold and recycled phone is the  Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Don’t know what else to say. This phone must have single-handedly driven Nokia’s profits through the roof as it seems that nearly everyone in the UK owned one!

If you were looking to sell your mobile phone in October, here’ are the top five sellers:

• Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
• Samsung S5230 Tocco Lite
• Nokia 6700 Classic
• Apple iPhone 3G 8Gb
• Nokia N97

Nokia and Apple phones were again dominating the sellers’ market last month but it’s nice to see a Samsung creep in to break it up a bit. Last month, the top selling Nokia 5800 was fetching up to £86, up from the previous month, but is now down to £81 so it looks like this phone’s selling price is now trending downwards.   The S5230 Tocco Lite trended upwards in October but is now on the way down, so sell today! It’s a good job here at mobiles2money we have our handy price trend graph to help you see which way the price is moving. This feature alone means that mobiles2money users are likely to get even more their mobile phones than by using other mobile recycling web sites.

OK, this is getting a tad repetitive! Once again, the most popular sold and recycled mobile phone for September was the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic!This handset must have, a.) sold in its droves, as so many are now becoming available, and b.) not been that great in the first place as surely. otherwise, you’d be hanging on to them with a nice and cheap PAYG SIM chucked in instead?

Still, this is obviously not the case and it looks like the 5800 must be, by now, the most prevalent mobile phone in Africa!

If you were looking to sell your mobile phone in September, here’s what company you kept:

• Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
• Nokia N95 8GB
• Nokia 6300
• Apple iPhone 3G 8Gb
• Apple iPhone 3G 16Gb

Nokia and Apple phones were dominating the sellers’ market last month. We can certainly understand the iPhone recycling, but it seems there’s never a shortage of older Nokia models to get shot of. And why not? The Top selling Nokia 5800 was fetching up to £84 – this phone’s selling price is still trending upwards so the longer you hang on to it, the more you’ll get. Until the market for it drops out of course.  The same can still be said for the 6300 with it’s price on the rise. It’s a good job here at mobiles2money we have our handy price trend graph to help you see which way the price is moving. This feature alone means that mobiles2money users are likely to get even more their mobile phones than by using other mobile recycling web sites.