Spring Cleaning? Here’s how much you could make from selling your old phones…

With the cost of living rising more than ever before, we’re all on the look out for ways to make some extra cash.

It turns out that considerable amounts of money could be sat at the back of your ‘old tech drawer’, with new data from mobile marketplace Mozillion revealing that you could make hundreds of pounds by selling your old handsets, depending on their condition.

The mobile marketplace has shared internal data from recent sales, to reveal just how much their customers have been able to make from selling their mobile phones in the last month.

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Len Leeson, founder of Mozillion, comments:

“Pretty much everyone has a previous phone or two buried away in a drawer. However, with the cost of living starting to bite, selling your phone can be a great way of making some very useful cash to pay the bills – or, better still, to get away this summer.  

Selling your handset also helps someone else find their dream phone at a nice discount, and saves a perfectly working mobile phone from heading to landfill – a win-win for everyone. 

There are certain things to bear in mind which could affect the price of your phone when you come to sell though, including:

• The condition of the handset
• The make and model (certain brands such as iPhones and Samsungs are generally more popular)
• The age of the device 
• Whether the device is unlocked, or tied to a network

Sometimes the perceived hassle of selling a handset can put people off – not to mention worries about getting a fair price. At Mozillion, we carry out a free diagnostic inspection that lifts your “used” phone to “refurbished” status, enabling you to make more money. Sellers on Mozillion regularly make up to £180 more than if they traded their phone in to a tech trader or their phone network. Not only this, we also provide a free guarantee, lost/stolen verification and a certified data wipe, taking the hassle away from the selling process.

At the end of the day, regardless of where you’re selling a phone, it is worth giving your ‘old tech drawer’ a spring clean. With more than 50 million tonnes of e-waste going to landfill every year, you can give your handset a whole new lease of life – and be rewarded with some extra cash for the summer…”