3. …or a nasty accident, you’re ready to be rid of it.
All this just leaves clutter on our hands; who is ever going to use a 10-year-old cell phone, after all, let alone consider buying one from you in order to use it? Contrary to what you might think, there probably is someone out there who really would like to buy your phone not to sign-up to a cheap call plan but to strip it of the valuable materials used to build it, from iridium and indium, to antimony and bismuth. With mineral prices at an all time high, now is a better time than ever to get mining.