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DEL.ICIO.USPick up a few bucks while you clean the basement
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I don’t know about you but - in my home - you could gather up enough old cellular phones to equip an infantry platoon. There are also maybe four MP3 players that I don’t use anymore. The basement contains an old video game system or two along with three computer monitors that still work, a couple of PCs that may work. I could find a few old boom box type audio systems … well, the list goes on (as do the complaints from my wife to clean out the basement).
Most of us have consumer electronic devices that are unused. But they fit into sort of a consumer paradox. They’re too good to throw away but not valuable enough to make much effort toward selling them.
That’s why I think a new business - you can read about it at this link - may actually have a chance of making it. You ship off your gadget or gadgets to Second Rotation and get payment right away. Then Second Rotation sells the stuff at a profit on eBay.
All that works - or is supposed to work - because Second Rotation keeps a database of what prices specific are bringing on eBay. So you are paid less than that, enough for Second Rotation to make a good profit. It’s hard to object to that system since, in most cases, the devices would have continued to gather dust in your basement otherwise.
The advantage to Second Rotation is the profit it makes. Your advantage is that you don’t have to deal with eBay, or potential problems getting your money. Instead you are paid right away and leave all the work to Second Rotation.
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By Prootwadl
July 25, 2007 1:03 PM | Link to this
Second Rotation sounds like a cool idea for those not interested in selling stuff on eBay directly.
I don’t get rid of technology myself, at least until it stops working (I still use an old B&W Palm m105, my main desktop box at home was built in 1996, and used my old 486 desktop box as a Coyote Linux firewall box until the magic smoke escaped from the power supply a little over a year ago), but I do see the appeal for such a service.
By Bill
July 25, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this
I don’t get rid of stuff either I’m afraid. For instance, along with the other stuff I mentioned, I also have a tube tester in my basement.