SellyourCell.com racing sponsorship rolls on!

We've been a sponsor of American Le Mans Series Rookie of the Year Guy Cosmo for the 2006 racing season, and the association has worked out quite well.

Guy has been an excellent ambassador for our company and his fans make up an important part of our customer base. Guy understands how important cell phone recycling is for the environment, and of course appreciates our customers ability to turn phones in a drawer into cash in their pocket. You can help us help him by visiting his promo at www.SellyourCell.com/Cosmo, and be part of the action!

Guy is currently co-driving a Daytona Prototype race car with Nextel Winston Cup Champion Bobby Labonte in the Grand Am road racing series (say that 5 times, fast). With a couple of big races coming up we are all rooting for him and following the action on his site at www.guycosmo.com Watch for strong finishes from the team as they compete in the final races of the season!


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How do I know my information is secure and how is it erased?

Allow us to put your minds at ease here. In order to evaluate the phones they must be sanitized, as we call it.

This is to say that the first thing our technicians do when they hook phones up to their diagnostic equipment is erase all the phone's data and reset the phone to it's original state. This is our very first step, and it is absolutely mandatory prior to evaluating the phone.

While it is worth knowing that we take this step, and in fact take your privacy very seriously, you should also know that phones (other than PDAs) very rarely contain any of the personal info that could be used to steal an identity. Fortunately people simply don't keep their social security number, drivers license number or birthday in the average cell phone. However, its nice to know that if you did, your information would be 100% secure and immediately erased. You have our word on this.

As for erasing the information yourself, most phones make it pretty easy by going through the phone's menu. Easier yet of course is to look up "erasing data" in the owners manual or on the manufacturer's website.

Except, of course, nobody ever reads the manual.

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Get $5 More on Your Next Phone Submission!

This was so popular last time we offered it that we just couldn't resist doing it again. Just for you, our loyal existing customers, we are offering a $5.00 bonus coupon! This coupon is valid for $5.00 additional payment when you sell your cell phones or other wireless devices to SellyourCell.com (limit one coupon per order). We sincerely appreciate your patronage, and we know the bottom line is that we wouldn't be here if it weren't for you. So, find some more phones, talk to your neighbors or coworkers and send them (the phones, not the co-workers) on. We will of course pay the regular quoted price for the phones on our website, and add $5.00 to your check just for responding to this offer!

To use this promotion, just click on the icon above and print the coupon when it pops up. Simply include this with your order and your $5.00 bonus is assured. Of course, regular SYC rules apply so the coupon isn't valid with broken phones or phones the size of a toaster.


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Why is it important to recycle cellphones?

Did you know that there are more than 400 million used cell phones in the hands of U.S. consumers at this moment? That is enough to create 64,000 tons of electronic waste. What does that mean for the environment?

Well, even if cell phones were biodegradeable, 64,000 tons is still an awful lot of trash. Cell phones, however, are not biodegradeable and when broken down into discrete elements they actually contain cadmium, arsenic, lead and mercury.

Landfills are created in such a way that these chemicals are not supposed to be able to leach into the soil, but even their simple presence is a threat to the environment. This is where SellyourCell.com comes in; our company provides a beneficial service to the environment by extending the lifespan of already produced items and preventing them from being disposed of improperly.

Our industry is somewhat unique in that for-profit companies like ours can grow while selling nothing to consumers, and instead, pay them to do the right thing.

The phrase "win-win situation" is certainly a bit overused these days, but we feel that it fits what we do perfectly.

So, tell your friends, neighbors, church, charity and co-workers about us. We are here to serve!


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What happens to my cellphone when I submit it for recycling?

Excellent question. Sometimes I think there are more theories on this than there are on Area 51. People ask me all the time if we break the phones down for the "gold" in them, sell them off to third world countries, or are stockpiling them because "big phones are going to make a comeback". I enjoy and appreciate the speculation, and since it is fun to talk about what we do, I'd like to share a bit on this subject.

Basically, our determination of the phones' use is made by examining the type of phone and carrier; for example, Verizon phones and Sprint phones both use a technology called CDMA. This is some of the best technology available, but because it is not used widely outside of the United States just yet, we wind up mostly refurbishing and reselling these phones here in the U.S.
T-Mobile and Cingular both use the more common GSM technology and many of the newer models from these companies can be remarketed outside of the U.S., and in fact, sometimes in developing nations.

Of course, we do get some phones that are either broken or are too old, and while we don't pay for these phones it is still our responsibility to break the phones down to their discrete elements and have them recycled.

So what about the gold? Well carriers, like the ones mentioned above, would go out of business pretty quickly if they were putting valuable amounts of gold in each phone, so I'm afraid that rumor isn't true.

But what a great business this would be if it were true, huh?


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