This article covers highly recommended places where you might trade in and/or recycle old computers.
Best Buy will give you a prepaid shipping label to print out, but you must provide a box.
The store pays with a gift card for in-person trade-ins or an e-gift card if you ship it.
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The company has a trade-in program that pays with an Apple Gift Card.
The trade-in kit comes via the mail and has instructions on preparing your system for shipment.
Payments go out the same or the next day once the computer has been received and inspected.
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The site will give you an instant quote and offers free insured shipping.
Cainitcash will even pick up the package for free with no hidden fees attached.
And if you happen to disagree with the evaluation, CanitCash will return the computer to you for free.
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Best of all, there’s free shipping.
The website has a great exchange rate offering hundreds of dollars for well-kept laptops.
Quotes are instantaneous, and you could add multiple devices to a cart.
SellBroke is known to pay handsomely for broken products.
Even if a laptop has a broken screen and a defective hard drive can still be worth some money.
Other services wont accept a broken laptop.
Sadly, just 20% of e-waste is recycled correctly.
To properlydispose of a computer battery, use Call2Recycles locator tool to find a battery recycling center near you.
Anywhere that recycles computers should also take batteries.
Don’t throw your old keyboard in the trash.
If the keyboard works, donate or repurpose it.
If it doesn’t,recycle your keyboardat an e-waste facility.
