There may be a fortune in the phones that we call obsolete! There are many companies in the world that produce smartphones. All of them are releasing new models one after another. As we see these models, we can give up what we have and want to move on to a new one. We look at what we have as old, but we make mistakes. Because old phones save their owners money!
OLD PHONES SAVE MONEY
Phones cost thousands of dollars these days. But it used to be possible to buy a cell phone for around $55 or less. Perhaps these phones were thrown into a drawer and even forgotten where they were. However, some of these models can now bring a smile to their owners’ faces.
This week, he paid $39,000 for an unopened first-generation iPhone. The first-generation iPhone was selling for $599 at the time. So years passed, it got old, but it found a buyer for more than 50 times its original price.
A study by Protect Your Bubble showed that you can make a good profit and make money from your old phones. Here are the old phones that make the most money and their selling prices, according to research based on a shopping site:
20 MOST PROFITABLE OLD PHONES
- Motorola DynaTAC 8000X – £1,776.01
- HTC Touch Diamond2 – £542.90
- iPhone – £542.55
- iPhone 3G – £301.68
- Motorola RAZR2 – £239.25
- Motorola Microtac 9800X – £230.36
- Motorola International 3200 – £215.50
- Nokia 7280 – £180.44
- Nokia N79 – £171.62
- Ericsson T39 – £146.85
- Nokia E90 Communicator – £134.25
- Nokia N-Gage – £112.90
- Nokia 9000 Communicator – £112.52
- HTC Universal – £104.25
- Nokia 9110I – £100.75
- Motorola RAZR2 V9 – £93.44
- Nokia 7600 – £86.69
- Nokia 2100 – £66.74
- Sidekick LX 2009 – £57.09
- Nokia 8110 – £56.70
If you have one of the above phones, it seems possible to sell them and make a profit in these amounts.
In fact, what makes an old phone worthwhile has to do with how rare it is and whether it’s cult. For example, the first generation iPhone was a very rare item as the box was unopened. However, if you are collecting old mobile phones at home or if you have phones that you think are rare, it is easy to make good earnings.