Flipswap

You may remember CellForCash, the Web service that lets you trade your old cell phone for cold, hard cash. Want to do something a little more charitable? Check out Flipswap, which offers either cash or a charitable donation for your unwanted phone.

Sending in your old phone or iPod for money isn’t anything new, but I recently found Flipswapand they’re a little bit different than other services out there. For one thing, everything is free and they even pay for your shipping costs.

Have you sent a VCR, computer or television to the electronics graveyard? You're not alone. The Environmental Protection agency estimated electronic waste, or "e-waste," at about two million tons in 2005, the most recent year data is available.

TechForward, one of several companies that sees opportunity in the market for reused consumer electronics, believes its guaranteed buyback plans are just the thing for people always lusting after the latest in high tech consumer electronics. Like fellow startups Flipswap, Turtle Wings and Second Rotation, TechForward is touting the concept of “Ownership 2.0″ — the idea that you should be able to donate, sell or trade-in a gadget you no longer want.

Flipswap offers a fast, free and "green" way to give your cell phone a second life. There are more than one hundred million working cell phones that become unused every year. Flipswap has created a way to give these cell phones a second life.

Earlier this week I was telling the GearDiary team that the only place I buy cell phones is online via Amazon. If you can wait until the newest cell phone model hits their web site, they’re the most convenient and cheapest way to order a phone. I’ve all but given up on cell phone stores because I always seem to find the store where the people don’t know anything or I’m seven people deep in line waiting while the one clerk explains how a cell phone works.

With the growing burden of consumer electronics and mobile devices in landfills, consumers have shown increasing concern about what to do with their old and unused mobile phones. Flipswap Inc., a global leader in incentive driven mobile phone reuse and recycling, will launch a new service this week making it possible for consumers and businesses to trade in phones for trees.

Flipswap, in partnership with InPhonic, added donation options to CellPhoneTradeIns.com. Consumers can now donate the proceeds of their used phones to a number of charities, including the Red Cross, Lance Armstrong Foundation, and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

The Mobile Solution launched Flipswap in 3 markets, with plans to roll out the trade-in program to all markets by the end of August.

The Flipswap feature is integrated directly into the RetailiQ system, so using it is a simple point-and-click process. Customers can get a discount off a new handset by trading in their old one. In the end, the customer gets a deal and the retailer closes a sale. It's a win-win situation..