Cash for Cell Phones

I'm the worst kind of gadget guy. I love productivity gadgets even though I could keep my entire calender and the majority of my contacts on the bottom of a Dixie cup and I'd be just fine.

For some reason, the little email, few contacts and utter lack of important calender has compelled me to be a smart phone fanatic. At the moment I'm torn between BlackBerry and Palm. I'm swapping my Cingular Sim between my BB 8100 Pearl and a newly acquired Treo 680.

In researching how I can turn some of the dozen or so discarded "dumb" phones that I've accrued over the years into something Smarter, I found cellphonetradeins.com.

You find the used value of your phone or phones by selecting your make and model and answering a brief questionnaire about your phone. They provide a USPS shipping label and you send the phone to them.

At the moment it appears that the only form of payment is paper check, which they claim will arrive in about 3 weeks.

I traded in my old treo 650 to see if this is really any better than dealing with Ebay. The value promised was $65.00 which seems fair considering the level of abuse it's endured. I'll post more updates as the story unfolds.