Everyone wants to save pennies wherever they can right now. A good friend, who up until now, I would’ve called very “low tech,” just discovered how to make money on eBay.
She’s busily taking pictures and writing descriptions and making a few hundred dollars a month selling things out of her “million dollar garage.” That’s what she calls the place where she stores all her junk. She says if she sold each item in her garage for $1, she’d earn millions.
Big merchants are jumping into the penny-pinching mentality with their own economic stimulus packages. Companies like Best Buy, Sam’s Club, Radio Shack and online merchants like NextWorth and MyBoneYard are offering buy-backs in real cash (via PayPal or gift cards) when you trade in your out-of-date gadgets.
Here’s a list of some items these companies accept:
- Desktop computers
- Laptops
- Fax machines
- Printers
- External hard drives
- GPS devices
- Satellite radios
- Blu-ray movies
- Cell phones
- MP3 players
- iPhones
- iPods
- Computer games
Each company has a list of what it takes and what you’ll get for it–you can even turn in broken gadgets. But you earn more if they still work. NextWorth, for example, claims it’s paid out over $1 million in trade-in dollars.
What a great opportunity to recycle and make a few extra bucks. Here’s a website that lists some of the companies who are participating in liberating your million dollar garage.
