Earthmobile is another UK based company that deals with mobile phone recycling; they pay you seven days after they have received and tested your unit.
Earthmobile’s official website at www.earthmobile.co.uk offers £81 for a Blackberry 8120 unit and even as much as £120 for an Apple iPhone 16GB. A Nokia N79 will fetch around £78 and an HTC Hero will fetch £103. All in all, Earthmobile accepts phones made by over 19 manufacturers.
In order to sell a phone at the Earthmobile website, you can choose a manufacturer from the dropdown list of manufacturers on the left side of the homepage. You should then type in the name of your mobile unit model in the space below and click the “Find Handset” button. Selecting a manufacturer name will also automatically bring you to a picture list of units under that manufacturer. You then click on the unit and you can see the price offer. If you agree with this, then you click the “Add to basket” button or the “Add Multiple” button if you want to send in more than one unit.
Earthmobile only pays for working phones. According to standards set by the company, a working phone should be able to switch on or off, have a working screen, contain its battery, and not be crushed or damaged by water. Also, it should be fully functional with only the usual cosmetic wear and tear. Non-working mobile phone units have broken or bleeding LCD screens, cannot be turned on or off and have a broken speaker, microphone and/or aerial.
Earthmobile may also not pay for some working models which they consider to have no value. In such a case, the most they can do is recycle its parts or send you back the phone.
