I’ve been seeing the ads for ages on TV, but I’ve not really paid them much attention.
Mazuma buys your old mobile phone for cash and then recycles it. The adverts say that they will pay up to £150 – it was that claim which made me a bit sceptical, especially when I looked up a very old phone and found it was only worth a few quid! In fact, I even made a comment about it here.
However, having just got a new phone, and rather than add to my collection of junked ones from yesteryear, I decided to turn in my HTC Touch HD and Nokia 6600. Together they were valued at £96 (the HTC was £90 on its own), so I went for it.
Mazuma sent me a bag within 2 days (I got it last Friday) and instructions. I wiped the phones and packaged them over the weekend (minus the SIM and memory cards), then dropped them off at the Post Office on Monday (yesterday).
I got an email today (Tuesday) at 1.15pm telling me they had received them and payment would be made today, another at 3.50pm with the bank transfer confirmation, and finally one at 5.00pm informing me payment had been made and would appear in my account before midnight. It appeared within an hour!
The only thing I regret was not using this service earlier. When I last checked my Nokia 6600 was worth £10, and it had dropped to £6 since then. The HTC was originally £99 – but since I hadn’t upgraded at that time there isn’t much I can do about it dropping to £90. Serves me right for not thinking of £10 being worth the hassle, when it wasn’t any hassle at all.
I’d recommend Mazuma to anyone, and I’ll certainly use it in future.