(keitai-l) Re: possible to sell old keitai?

From: tek1 <tek1_at_pobox.com>
Date: 07/31/02
Message-Id: <4.3.2-J.20020731170409.025d1ca8@mail8.catv.ne.jp>
thanks for your reply.

so docomo never contacted you?  i thought that their recycling program was 
mandatory, but guess that it's not and as you said, ok to sell our old keitai.

thank you again.



At 16:56 02/07/31 +0900, you wrote:

>I sold a whole bunch of old keitais (DoCoMo, J-Phone and PHS) on Yahoo
>Auctions Japan. I don't know whether the buyers reconnected those phones
>or they bought them as collector items (the Japanese appear to collect
>all kinds of things) or toys for their kids or whatever, but clearly
>there was a demand for those phones. I think I remember that one buyer
>reconnected the phone or said that they wanted to, but I just shipped
>those phones as they were and left anything else up to the buyers. If
>anyone reconnected them, I didn't have to get involved at all.
>
>You won't get much for it, though. Most of the ones I sold, I put up for
>100 yen and typically bids were going up to 1000 - 1500 yen. A DoCoMo
>Nokia phone even went for more.
>
>regards
>benjamin
Received on Wed Jul 31 11:08:33 2002