An Austrian company specialised in buying unwanted mobile telephones has opened up online with an automatic evaluation service based on the model and condition. Every year some 2.5 million old mobile telephones are cast aside in Austria with the most simply being left abandoned in cupboards and drawers in homes. Anybody going to the website http://ift.tt/1hihWOu simply fills in the details about the mobile telephone on offer in order to get a valuation, and then to send the phone to the company which checks the information and then makes a transfer of cash directed to a bank account. The company has been set up by businessmen Martin Lehmann whose company Upcom Telekom was behind the ORF television and charity Caritas campaign to collect old mobile telephones for charity. But now he's offering people to put cash into their own pocket with their old mobile telephones. Payments are transferred automatically to the customer's bank account and the phones are sent using a free envelope. Once the phone has been checked to make sure the condition is as the seller confirmed, then the money is transferred to the bank account. The old phones are then exported mostly to Africa where they are resold. Any phones that are sold with over €15 require the seller to include some personal information for security reasons to prevent criminals using the network.
Austrian Times
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