Get Paid to recycle your cell phone (received this today-wanted to share)

[memphis]

You will have to look up the website: Flipswap


OK, 'fess up: how many defunct cell phones do you have in your junk drawer?

The average American replaces his or her phone almost once a year, and that means every year more than 100 million cell phones go to the drawer or the dump, and that's not good at all.

You've certainly seen cell phone drop-off points at various electronics and office supply retailers, but now there's a way to dump your old phones and get paid-at least a little-for them.

Check out Flipswap, an online service that gives you an instant estimate of the value of your old phones. All you have to do is print out the pre-paid shipping label, send in the phones, and wait for your check to arrive. (You can also choose to have the money sent to one of several charities listed on the site.) Just go here to start the process.

When I looked at the site, I saw trade-in values ranging from $4 for some old clunkers to more than $100 for fairly new smartphones and PDAs. You wouldn't want to leave $100 sitting in your junk drawer, would you?

So far, Flipswap claims to have processed about 734,000 phones. That's a lot in raw numbers but hardly any percentage-wise. Only 99 million to go.