SELLING 15 IPHONES WE FOUND TO A MACHINE AT WALMART
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Selling 15 iPhones, we found in the trash, to a machine at Walmart. We found 15 iphones in a dumpster and decided to see how much money we could get for them from ECOATM.
Where I live old phones, returned to the phone companies, are refurbished and then donated to women's shelters where they are handed out to disenfranchised women so they can call 911 in an emergency.
motherofone1 - That is a very worthwhile thing to do! I’ll have to find out about my area!
The refurbish and donate to women’s shelters here in the Central Valley, CA too.
Better off donating to places like that. The machine is a complete ripoff.
D. Vasquez HRM - SOC where at in specific? I’d love to donate some old phones!
That's actually sad if you think bout it...
Of course the machine is going to say no cash value so you will hit the recycle button and later on the owner comes along and pulls out all them phones and makes a nice profit..lol
I would not recycle it to this machine. Rip off !!!
The phones are old and useless. If they can be recycled ....
@@shimonsieskel8487 they would sell on ebay for sure !!! parts
mike kretzer w
Shimon Sieskel they aren’t worthless tho, people part them out on ebay.....
$7 for a 6s?!? Lol you could’ve sold it more for parts online 😂
I sold mine for parts 60 lol on ebay
They sell very well on Mercari app
I buy on ebay and mercari and I would say you could have made a decent amount not those trash machines.
Those machines are just a clever scam. Tell you a bunch of recycling facts and get you to "recycle" your phone. Mean while there going to take them and fix them or strip for parts and resell for a high profit. Btw I will buy any broken phone you get.
@@borndifferentnf1 yeah, but this way you don't need to wait for somebody to buy, it's instant cash.
Those iPhones broken sell for good money on ebay! missed opportunity
Ryan yup there are alot of utubers plus people who fix them up & resale etc...that use the parts to rebuild the models,
I watched 1 guy yesterday buy around 10 iphone x for around £1000, he was able to use the parts & made 2 perfect iphone X’s that are fully working & not a scratch on them...
@@yvonnesmith9107 yes, they do that for the views, not so they can make money off the iphones. It's possible they do eventually sell them, because why not, but they could just as well throw them in the trash after the video is done.
If you've watched their videos, they do typically sell them. They were told about the kiosk and wanted to just check it out 😁
He will make a few grand on this video
That's smart...the owners of the machine I mean. They pray on people's fear of seaming like they care more about money than the environment, so they give you $0 and a warm fuzzy feeling in your heart.....then they empty the machine and sell the phones for scrap gold and platinum and make $1000's. Brilliant!
Hahaha thousands hahaha
@@user-wx7mi5dj8u given that the amount of phones a machine can hold, times the gold and platinum pulled from each phone, yeah, thousands.
@@douglasgoldstein8990 Sure i guess if you ignore the cost of the machine, paying walmart I'm sure, employees collecting the phones, breaking them down into pieces or what parts are valuable and smelting the precious metals but you're really reaching lol and it would be naive to think that they're not in the business to make money lol
@@user-wx7mi5dj8u the machines are exactly the same as any vending machine, 1 person owns them, so that person collects all the money/phones deposited. It's then up to them to break them down. And the machine is a 1 time expense. If it wasn't lucrative, the machines wouldn't exist. Like you said, it's all about making money.
@@douglasgoldstein8990 One person collects all the phones from every walmart in America? That's unreal! Like Santa Clause lol
Just watching this and Im feeling riped off and it not my stuff 😆
Steven and Steph, thank you for all you do for the environment ❤ ♥ Joan
I was checking one of these machines out and a new I phone 10 x was appraised by the machine to be worth $25 . Ya right what a crooked racket.
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It's not quite that cheap.
You are lying. I just checked on EcoATM website (you can get the value of a phone on their website) and an iPhone X (there is no 10 x) is worth $115 at a EcoATM kiosk.
I'm thinking you could have bundled them for 300 on eBay. Those machines want to give you little to nothing so they can fix and resell.
Debbies World what’s what I was thinking! Even $100!
Yep!! Lol.
And that is ok, better they do that then the phones end up in the landfill. If that is what they do, then they are resellers just like Steph and Steve. Don't you think that other resellers come and buy stuff of Steph and Steve when they sell their items cheap and then turn around and flip the items for more money? Everyone getting a piece of the pie.🤗🇩🇰
@@skaarup33 that kiosk probably does worse then the landfill...they may even ship their ewaste to other countries...they are in the biz to make money. ..those kiosks are not a guarantee what is to happen to those phones...they may even end up back in some Temecula dumpster!
I was just watching you guys yesterday thinking about how much stuff you have kept out of the landfill. I wonder how much it would be if it was all put together, what you donated , what you recycled and what you resold!! One heck of a lot!! Great job guys!! Many blessings to you both!!
I'd be real wary of associating my ID with phones found in the trash. You have no idea if they could be stolen.
That's what I was just going to say. You have to put your Id in those machines. No thanks.
@@lindaconnell7394 dawg they have already said that you cant pick it up off of surfaces. Most viruses cant survive outside of a host for more than a few hours. Sunlight kills viruses. So. Be afraid of peoples' mouths. Not surfaces.
Just glad Steve made it clear at the end that they could have made more by selling on eBay, but wanted to investigate this process for us. Thanks, just as I suspected......a way to get taken advantage of.......
If they have no cash value, take them back, take the gold wire out, put them back in and hit recycle to begin with. Over time, you will cumulate some gold value.
“Or just people that you know” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣laughed so hard at that cause it’s so TRUE 😉 love you guys so much. And this was so cool to watch, have never seen a machine like this one before. And learned a lot of great info from it too. Thanks for sharing this and for another Awesome video 👍
I think it's funny that I still use my IPhone 5C. It still works just fine. I don't do a lot of internet things with it but it still works for texts and calls and I still can take pictures with it. I am 63 and I don't need a fancy phone. That and I can't fathom spending $1000.00 on a phone. This was interesting! Thanks for the video!😁✌
Cherie Michel I know right! It’s insanity how these things are so expensive but then lose value so quickly! 😱
Im on my DG dumpster Android!! I found three brand new in the box nice minute phones i use them on wifi here at home to do things and like that I still have two brand new ones i haven't used at all when this one gets full of data overload!! Haha..
Awesome
Thanks for watching
First time viewer of this particular channel & I commend this couple for trying there luck at selling those phones via that machine. And for recycling the phones that were not worth anything, as well. Because sure while the aim of reselling is to make as much bread, in terms of profit as you possibly can, there is also a thing called *’integrity.’* Something that judging by this couple’s actions, you can tell they have in spades. So good on you, my friends. *SUBSCRIBED!!!* 😉
Thanks for choosing to be a part of this channel we really appreciate you 🙏😊
When I first started seeing theses machines was in 2016 in spartanburg South Carolina and these machines paid way more back then I sold them a bs LG phone for 80$ I think over time they started to rip ppl off on the payout smh
I'm from Spartanbu Sc and I've tried to use these machines in Walmart to sell broken iphones and they always say it isn't worth anything...knowing whoever owns these machines is going to make money off of the phones you donate... it is a SCAM!!!
Never heard or seen an ECOATM before. Pretty cool.
I use to send my phones to a recycling company for free. Sometimes they didn't want the battery it was to be recycled separately. The batteries have a certain "mineral"
(forgot the name now) that has to be dug out of the earth. So by recycling that mineral you can save some of the planet.
Lithium or nickel
hello !! my God, here in Brazil we don't have these machines and another thing we will hardly find an iPhone thrown in the trash, here they are very expensive, but congratulations to you for your videos I love it !!!!
Thanks for watching Sandra 🇧🇷❤️
Time to sell to Brazil! 🇧🇷 🙋🏾🙋🏾🙋🏾🙋🏾🤣
really interesting - loved learning the details about silver/gold being tossed out, and about the water waste just from making ONE phone - shocking! Thank you!
IPHONE 6 $7. If its operational it's worth a lot more. I think you could have bundled them & sold them on Ebay for more.
LOVE IT!!!!! I keep old phones in their boxes in our guest room closet! I knew not to pitch them; and, trade-in was too low. Looks like I’ll get a shelf back!!
That's alto to do for $7 and to just pretty much donate all the other phones. I'll stick to ebay where I can get $200+
Thank you guys for thinking of security jobs. So thoughtful of you.
That machine is cool, i had no idea they had those...nice recycling!!! On to the next.....
On to the next 😊
This machine low balls people. If you take to somewhere like GameStop you can get a higher cash value and they’ll refurbish it and resell it
Thanks for the tip 😊
britneybxoxo not really lol. Gamestop would literarily give you $30 for your xbox one LOL
@@GlitchedPepsi It is $56 for the 500GB which don't seems like much but im a reseller myself I pay more than they do but for that system in like new condition but used id give $75 maybe $80 sell for $130 plus S&H and make $47 but that a instant $47. Reason they don't pay alot is cause there work into reselling not just free money like people think then got fees and risk of customer with credit card doing a chargeback so if was not for all that I pay $100-$110 but cause there is all that to it I think they offer ok price fair no but close
Everyone knows those machines are a scam unless u legit just wanna get rid of a broken or cheap cell.
How are they scamming?
DaughterOfGodAlways how?
DaughterOfGodAlways either way they are literally recycling all these phone that they found in the dump so it doesn’t matter they are saving the earth I don’t feel its a scam to do something good.
People here steal phones and take them to these machines.
@@ElsaInCa phone companys rip people of every second of the day so this is just the iceing on the cake you pay for the handset and contract for all that time just to give it back you would'nt just give your house away would you after paying for it out right
I just recently started watching your videos and I absolutely love you all and Jerry to. You really are helping our environment by Dumpster Diving and collecting many items that do not belong in The land fills! Thanks for Recycling all those phones. Well they were all free and you gained $7.00 ! Keep up the good work and keep making us laugh and giving lots of tips to, especially about all those Gift cards. Take care. BTW I am a Subscriber since last November. I am catching up on older videos.👍❤️
If you have them charged and factory restart them you get more for them
Those could be sold on EBAY for money... can sell for parts even.
weird i usually sell stuff for chickens! what is money?
If u charge them up b4 u go to the machine they give u more money, even on broken phones. Love your videos!!
Great tip 😊
Christina Donelson I was thinking the should’ve charged them all up or sold them somewhere else if if the machine said no money they should’ve got the phones back me personally think they could’ve got more money for the phones better than the machine but what do I know
Even though it appears to be a ripoff, the technology is pretty cool! If nothing else, you've saved them from the landfill.
Plus, we all learned some interesting facts. I think phone stores should be required to recycle!
We agree Linda ❤️
Ours do.
I think you meant to say lies the machine told them to guilt them into recycling.
These two were on extreme unboxing TV show- they are supposed to be professional flippers. Big time LOL 😂 😂
What is a professional flipper? 😂
This video was SO interesting
Never realized that such a thing existed! Very cool. 😊
That was cool watching that machine Calculate what those old phones were worth. You did a good job by keeping them out of the landfill.
Thanks for watching Toni 😊
They had those machines around here till the criminals started stealing phone then they outlawed them
Lol... I cant watch these guys . Thought they would be smarter to get more money for Iphones. 🙄
The same thing happened with old carseats, you used to be able to trade them in for cash at Wal-Mart but it only lasted about a month because people started breaking into cars to steal the carseats for cash 🤦 It happened to a few people in my town.
I literally watched the whole videos. It was really fun to watch.
Wow, they offer barely anything :( selling as parts wouldve been better
Good job..once again, you guys taught us something positive! 👏👏👍💜
I rather recycle my self its fun getting out all the gold plating.
My daughter works for that company. Red Box owns that company too. I'm glad they started that. Imagine all the old batteries and junk that ended up seeping poisons into our landfills and possibly one day our water table.
Awesome
Omgh, i really hope u didnt have the iphone 2g which is the 1st iphone ever, those are collectors items & go from $1000-$1800 upwards....!!!!
So keep an eye out on your routes, ....
Yvonne smith I thought the 1st one was the 3g
Devin Knight I don’t think so because I had the 3G and I didn’t have the first model.
They are only worth thousands with the box. If it’s used and has no box they are worth 60 on eBay
that’s with the seal
that was the 3g not 2g
I enjoyed going "mini golfing" with you 4. Thanks for sharing your family time.
No you did a good job recycle is the best thing you can do and you were bless $7.00 that's $7.00 you didn't have amen💐💞🙋🏻
My thoughts exactly! It's more important that the phones are recycled the right way then make a few extra dollars. Plus who knows what will happen to the phones if they sell them on Ebay.... 🤗🇩🇰
@louiseleu I am not too sure of what you are trying to say here, and I don't think that neither do you, but hey, you do you. Like what Steph and Steve always say "Enjoy your life!"🤗🇩🇰
I’m intimidated by electronic machines like that phone kiosk. I get flustered and am afraid of messing something up. It really helped to see you use it several times - I have a few old phones sitting in a drawer.
Give it a try Elsa 😊
@@StevenStephResaleKillers can you adopt me as your son
well thats seven dollars more than you have, way to go
Thanks you guys! Just got a new phone after New Years and will definitely try my WalMart to see if I can turn my trash into cash!
Hope you get a lot 💰 Thanks for watching
In Steve's voice.... That was Cool!! 😎
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UR SOO welcome STEVE n Steph ... TU SOO MUCH 4 Bringing + Content & great info. 2 Our World 🌍... & our lives ... and U helping recycle so much & spread the word about how much is wasted & how 2 make the world a better place by fixing things 2 resell instead of the rampant waste out there .. 💜 Ya Guys...
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Thanks for watching Alexis 😊❤️
Lol yeah, they "recycle" them and sell it for a price, and you get nothing for it!
E actly
Good video people say u could do this u could do that , but rember you got them of dumpster & when did you ever hear being greedy is worth it & if it makes something out of nonthing y squeeze more see we wonder why there so much hate in world if get water free we expect juice free too. I dont know how many will understand this just be happy for want u get & have not want u except u should have im talkin of experience but I was givin a second chance so I'm enjoying life with my kids & hope everyone can 1 day be happy 4 what u have & other that share there videos like this with us ... I might be able to have a Christmas but I got life thank you 4 reading this
Well I thought that the person I watched do this got a lot more money it is still better than the dumpster tyfs 🙋♀️💕🤗🤗👍
Steph and Steve, I just ABSOLUTELY Love watching the both of you. I can't wait for Evening to come and I can relax from Caring for my Mother. I turn on my IPad so that I can see your Treasures. I have to tell you that I went DUMPSTER DIVING today. I didn't find anything but that was O.K. It looked like the Trash Man had already been th. I was LOL because I had my friend with me and she has OCD. the look on her face was priceless. Thank You for making my night so enjoyable. God Bless and stay HEALTHY.
Aww glad you’re a part of this channel Joanne thanks for watching 🙏😊❤️
For those in comment area saying ebay was best bet . GOOD CALL !
That was amazing ❤️👍👏 thanks for showing how easy it is to recycle them 👍👍👍
Thanks for watching
Geez, all this time I’ve been wondering why you guys get excited over finding old broken phones! Wow!
This is a good idea. Thanks for taking us along. Greetings from BRAZIL.....Indiana.
BRAZIIIIL!!...... Indiana! 😂❤️❤️❤️ Love it!
Machine: I'm going to say all phones have no value and collect all info from everyone.
Owner of machine: GOOD CALL!
😂
OMG yall I just found my Michaels dumpster and got two lanterns from it and gift cards 😍😁😍
Outstanding ❤️
YO SI QUIERO UNO PARA MI HIJA NO PUEDE ESCUCHAR CLASES XQ NO TENEMOS A MÁS DE UNA TABLE VIEJA
Greetings. This was so amazing. Thank you for passing knowledge/blessings forward. Be safe,healthy &blessed
Thank you 😊
not much i was offered $25 dollars from one for a iphone 8 in excellent conditione and unlocked, those phones that were in good shape and if they powered up worth $20 ,5s $10 dont believe those machines
It be interesting to put a brand new phone in one of them to see what the message would say for worth.
Thanks for showing us how this behemoth works. I’ve seen it, but always afraid to try it out. Just think how excited y’all would been to find seven bucks laying in the dumpster! You kept all this gold, silver, and non-biodegradable metal out of our landfills. Great job, guyz 👍
Hahah yes! And now the burden of having those around forever not wanting to waste time on repairing or selling or re-throwing them away is gone! LOL 😂
They have gold in them
My uncle needs to do this....he has so many old phones he has had for years. He never got rid of any of them after upgraded.
I would've dug the gold out of them!
Great job man. You guys just helped mama Earth.
Thanks for watching 😊
Ah. The days before we had to wear masks everywhere. Seems like so long ago lol
Ohh Wow! I haven’t see this before. It’s first time for me. New phone machine. 👍😊🙌🏽🤟🏽📱
It amazes me that the phone stores don't recycle these themselves, they could probably get a tax refund maybe? But good for you guys!
That is awesome that you are at least able to recycle some but I'm glad you got some money out of it to
Thanks guys! You guys are awesome!
Thanks for watching
You guys always educate, love ya!
Thank you for taking so much of your time to make sure they were recycled.
wow thats cool. I have a bunch of old phones, i need to get rid of. ill check my local Walmart to see if they have this machine there. Thanks for showing us. I had no idea what to do with these old phones. This is a great idea!
I googled “sell my phone kiosk” or something and it came up. There are many of them around I guess with different names, so try Walmart or google ❤️
Lady Dragonfly still have them old phones
Hi Steve and Steph I didn't know about this 👍 TFS enjoy your evening ♥️💕 ♥️
Thanks for watching Sandra
@@StevenStephResaleKillers you are welcome ♥️
i will pay way more than what you were quoted for a broken iphone lol
Very interesting to see this being done. Thanks for the heads up! ❤️🇨🇦❤️
Thanks for watching
Glad you are back on I lost you guys and missed you.
They used to pay way more for your phones... about the same as what you could get selling it online. Now their prices have dropped to nothing it seems.
My mom still uses my old 6S Plus iPhone and it works fine. I have the new 11 that I use and have my old 8 still, yet she wants to stick with the 6. 🤷🏼♀️😂
You probably could’ve sold them all online but I guess this was all about the experience so it’s all good! 😁
You can buy old fully functioning black berrys online for 0.01 and do more with it than what's happening here, I think someone was using something like this for Bitcoin mining back in the day. There always a use for old stuff somewhere just need the know how.
Awesome how you guys recycled. Makes my heart happy. Yay!!! ♻️❤️👊🤗
Thanks for watching 😊
@@StevenStephResaleKillers you're welcome. ❤️
I see where people save up the phones till they have a good amount and put it for sale online and they get way more money for them. People buy the lots for parts. Maybe try that next time.
Wow, that’s kind of fun. Never seen or heard of those machines. I’ll have to investigate and see if we have those machines here in Ontario, Canada. TFS Hugz
Thanks for watching 😊
Reminds me of when I tried to get an estimate for my items at Best Buy. They were willing to give me five dollars for my Wii and $10 for my DSLR camera then I paid $350 for.
That company is a highway robbery, they win win 😂😂😂😂😂
Steve Steph thank you for sharing this video as you both selling15 I phones that you found to a cell phone machine in Walmart I have not done it before hope you both will get some money from the cell phone machine at Walmart love watching it you both have a wonderful weekend
Thanks for watching 😊
You are both welcome love watching all your videos
Stefan Steph thank you for the thumbs up and the love and heart on my comment
There are repair centres that will purchase all of those phones for replacement parts! Dumping them in that recycler...they might be sold for parts! The screens have value! The covers and glass screens have value! Best wishes!
That's cool. Always wondered how they worked and now I know how to get rid of the old phones. Thank you
Thanks for watching
No way I would’ve given the machine any phone that said no value
If iphones don't have any cash value, imagine my cricket phones are valued.
😂
Hey don't knock the cheap giveaway phones.😉
I had on last a year & a half once!. It was even a smart phone too. My sister didn't quite believe me when I said it was a smartphone but it technically was.
I was able to very slowly sort of access the internet & look up bus routes.
Alas the second was $50 & didn't last 6 months.
Thank goodness for amazon. I got me a Moto E4+ for $99 & it's still going strong. Won't hold a charge too long but it's still going after over 3 years now.
I can even access the internet & sometimes find where the damn bus is. Sometimes, is on the bus people though.
Now I'm finally going to get a good one, for me, but haven't decided on exactly what yet.
I tried replacing the battery instead since I usually just use my tablet instead of my phone anyway. But I couldn't get the damn screws out. I really though it would be something like trying to remove a glued in battery that would beat me. But at least I tried.
As you mentioned, I’m so glad that you took these phones to ECO ATM
(not a paid advertisement) 😂
and recycled them! Such a “green”
thing to do!
I watched your video last night, and I recall you found 2 5c s but in this video I saw only 1 ! Does that mean that the other 5c is working and someone was able to use it for awhile?!
That thought would be nice 👍
Take a shot for every time she goes "Good Caaaall"
Should've sold them to a phone repair shop
You did a good thing ...I hope Steph got a Starbucks out of it!
this is pretty cool, but you could make more money taking the phones apart, selling the housings to phone collectors and restorers and recycling the internal parts. Some people will even buy the whole phone, recycle the internals and use the externals.
I agree with you if you had put it on eBay you would’ve made much more money thanks for sharing
Hi Steve and Steph, what a great thing they have and seven dollars is good and you guys got to recycle those phones thank you for sharing 🌞
The 5s wasn’t plugged in before you closed the door.😂
Then the machine prompted that over $60million in gold and silver are wasted by not recycling your phones, right before it says no cash value. LOL
They should rebrand these things as Scam Machins. 😂
I worked for Motorola for 10 years. The wire bonding process is phenomenal! It would take a lot of phones to reach 60 million in gold and silver!