In what sounds like a clever way for an electronics retailer to battle the recession, Radioshack has started taking trade-ins for in-store credit.
If this rumour pans out, AT&T could soon offer disgruntled mobile phone users a “phone trade-in program,” good for a few bucks off a new phone, should you really hate the one you just bought.
Jim Jannard has announced a price reduction on their Scarlet and EPIC cameras, their latest modular systems for still and motion photography. Plus, now there are multiple trade-in upgrade paths:
Similar to offers we’ve seen from companies like Costco, the RadioShack Online Trade-In Program will swap your old gadgets for.gift cards. You search their database for your gadget and offer the best quality assessment that you can, and they provide a mail-in sticker that you print. If all goes well, they’ll send you a gift card 10-14 days after the unit is received. But remember, that’s only if all goes well. So assuming worst case scenario, what are your totally broken gadgets worth?
Original EDGE iPhones are still going for pretty serious dough on eBay like they were back in June, but if the market is anything like it was around the time of the first launch, you’re likely to go through tons of fraudulent winners before you finally get connected with someone who’ll actually pay. Saving you that hassle, but at a significant premium, is NextWorth, a service that will take your Jesus Phone (now Peter Phone? Hmm) and send you a cash voucher or Circuit City.gift card for your trade-in, before probably selling it on eBay themselves. But is it worth it?
Wal-Mart is a little late to the HD DVD pity party, finally deciding to offer tokens to suckers who threw in with the dead format. Until April 30, they’ll refund any HD DVD player bought after Nov. 1, as long as you’ve got the original receipt, though you don’t need the original packaging.
