It's always nice to find a way to make a little “mad money” – this Monday we are highlighting a way to make a little extra by selling used electronics you are willing to part with. Ebay Instant Sale pays money for your gently used electronics. Read More ›

With a new iPhone coming out, one early adopter compared prices offered by sites that will buy your old gadgets. One trick I've picked up is to sell old stuff to subsidize buying new stuff. I even figured out how to make almost $300 in profit switching iPhones from AT&T to Verizon when the Verizon iPhone 4 was originally announced. But listing items on eBay and shipping to buyers who may or may not exist can be troublesome, and it often involves hassles that keep ordinary people away. Plus, eBay is an auction. You never know how much money you'll get for an item until you put it on the block. As you can see, for most of my items, eBay Instant Sale pays the most. It's different from listing something on their site. Instead of auctioning to individuals, you're selling directly to eBay. Read More ›

Are you hankering after the new iPhone? If you are, you can earn between $250 and $600 for your old model – more than most customers paid in the first place. But you need to sell now. Apple is widely expected to unveil its new iPhone 4S on Tuesday. You can sell your iPhone 4 yourself on eBay where they’re currently going for anything from $200 to $600. Today, “eBay Instant Sale” began offering a guaranteed $307 for an iPhone 4 16GB and $339 for an iPhone 4 32GB, though prices fluctuate daily; customers enter basic information, receive an instant offer for their device and have seven days to send it. Read More ›

Earlier this week, I told you about the cash cow that now lies dormant in your soon-to-be-outdated iPhone 4 and how sites like NextWorth are upping the ante--offering to take them off your hands for as much as $250, so long as you commit to sell before the anticipated iPhone 5 announcement on Tuesday. Turns out eBay is offering even more beef for those old devices--as they were quick to inform me. I checked it out, and currently an iPhone 4 16GB in good condition is fetching upwards of $260 at eBay's Instant Sale site. Read More ›

If you have a broken iPad, iPhone or iPod, eBay will pay you to take it off your hands. The online marketplace has offered to pay people for the broken Apple devices through its Instant Sale program, which launched in October and which allows people to trade in used electronics and immediately get money for it. EBay said Monday that as part of an Earth Month promotion, it is boosting the trade-in value of these products through April 30. Read More ›

New data put out by eBay this morning shows that consumers are trading in more than double the number of iPads than iPods as part of the company's gadget trade-in program. The tidbit accompanied news that eBay is giving Apple owners a bigger trade-in value for broken iPhones, iPads, and iPods. As part of the promotion, which coincides with Earth Day, those who trade in their nonworking gadgets can get up to $150 for a broken iPad, $100 for an iPhone, and $50 for an iPod. eBay is also doling out a $5 gift card, and a matching $5 donation to Global Green USA to those who make a trade-in before April 30. Read More ›

Steve Jobs was still on stage introducing the new iPad 2 last week when my inbox and Twitter stream started filling up with the same question : “I want the iPad 2, but what can I do with my old iPad?” Read More ›

So does that mean you’ll be able to scoop up a used, first-generation iPad on the cheap? Based on the prices demanded by sellers, the answer is no. Not yet anyway. A Mashable post describes an iPad trade-in market that’s been amazingly robust since Apple’s iPad 2 announcement on Wednesday. Gazelle.com, which pays cash for used gadgets, bought 2,500 iPads from consumers on Wednesday, and another 2,000 or so the day after. Read More ›

If the burgeoning trade-in activity for the original iPad is any indication, sales of the iPad 2 could exceed even the most brazen predictions. Trade-in programs from Gazelle, eBay and NextWorth are all reporting sustained levels of user interest. Meanwhile, Apple is giving some recent iPad 1 buyers a $100 discount. Read More ›

One of the hottest commercials in the Super Bowl was Justin Bieber's Best Buy spot about buying back your old gear. Best Buy's Buy Back plan seems like a pretty good deal: guaranteed rates for the purchase of your electronics after you've used them for six months all the way through four years... Read More ›

It's not going to warrant you any rags-to-riches accolades overnight, but it's a quick way to get rid of unwanted gadgetry and make a few bucks in the process. You can make more money selling it on eBay proper, to real buyers, but for those other gadgets that no-one really wants, eBay is willing to trade with you for a small amount of cash—and pay for your shipping charges, too. If their database shows your product as having no secondhand resale value whatsoever, then they'll take it off your hands and still pay shipping. The alternative is to just let them rot in your bottom draw, much like most of my old handsets. Read More ›

Online auctioneer eBay is launching a site today that gives its users a convenient way to sell or responsibly recycle their old cellphones and other mobile devices. In an exclusive announcement, the company tells Green House that eBay users can plug in basic information about their device and get an immediate cash offer. If they accept, they'll get a free shipping label and payment will go to their PayPal account as soon as the item is received and its condition verified. If the item gets a zero value, users can still get a free shipping label to recycle it. Read More ›

Have a dead cell phone kicking around in your electronics drawer? No more excuses to keep it there. Auction giant eBay just made it easy to ditch such items in a sustainable manner with Instant Sale, a tool that allows users to almost instantly swap gadgets for money. Read More ›

One of the looming challenges of the shift to a sustainable economy, especially in the U.S., is how to simultaneously shift consumption patterns -- we are, of course, profoundly addicted to stuff, and especially new stuff. In one of the many attempts to prove that sustainable consumption isn't an oxymoron, eBay has put its dedicated Green Team to work on a range of environmental initiatives, and has been trying to educate the world that buying used stuff is greener than buying new stuff. Read More ›