The whole point of these machines (same apply for "Cashies" shops) is convenience, sure you get paid next to nothing, but whatever the machine offer you, you are garanteed to get. You can get much more on Ebay, but you can also get scammed and get nothing at all (or even negative with all the fees/postage). Only problem I see is older people who are unaware they can get paid more elsewhere and who will use these machines before other alternatives.
Im debating taking my s24ultra. It has water damage (cameras r foggy) a pen from an s23u is stuck and also the phone signal just doesnt work.. $400ish supposedly though
As someone who used to service the money side of those machines, we never put $20s in them. Only $1s, $5s, and $10s. So payouts aren't gonna be all that high.
Is gazell paying you? Were you the ones collecting the phones? Did you ship them off? I'm interested in hearing more about your role in these machines.
@@bigk777 no, I used to work for an armored car company. We handled the "ATM" aspect of the machine only. "Supposedly" they did the phones at first too, but that contract changed long before I got there. We were just a 3rd party contractor that was responsible for replacing and replenishing the physical cash inside the vault, and replacing the roll of stickers that it dispenses to place on the devices.
Sometimes I'll hang near the ecoATM on a busy day, waiting for someone to get a shit offer so I can swoop in and offer them marginally more in cash. I've gotten some great deals on devices that way
Well given how without it, it would just be easy to pickpocket walmart shoppers and sell the items to this shop like its a easy walk away fence shop. Do ya really want something like that encouraging folks to make a small profit by stealing phones?
@@joeyghostx Access is needed, though. Some phones won't let you in even after a pre-boot wipe, unless you log into a paired Google account. Although... you could always submit it as "does not power on" for less money.
It is around $380 to $450 they ofter for a s24 ultra, which is still lower then eBay, or Facebook but more then half of used market value. As just looked up online as you can check without even needing to go to the machine Those machines are not recommend as for convenience and you can get way more selling it yourself, or using as a trade-in if you upgrade down the road. The only benefit is for those that want to literally recycle a old smart phone and don't care about the money back, or those that literally rather not deal with eBay, or Facebook period and it a new highend phone, then ar least you get a little over half the used market value and don't have to deal with the hassle of reselling it yourself and risk fraud buyers. Better then most pawnshops, or 3rd party cellphone stores in that regard. Budget phones not worth even trying to resell except for on eBay.
Man, the cheap phones saga should be a series, everyone would watch them, like grocery phones, chinese phones, unbranded smartphones from untrusted sellers being to put to the test of, can It even run Android?
@@RoshiGaming no its because they have to cut costs to keep outperforming their last quarter every quarter so prices go up, wages for workers get cut and cash offers go down all to increase that revenue
I have a very rare good experience with Eco ATM. Had a busted up IPhone XR, never bothered trying to sell it on eBay so it sat in my desk. Ended up getting 40$ for it when it was just collecting dust and had cracks all over the back with glass falling out.
@@Heu.. you gotta have the hardware for removing the body, and you have to maintain an ebay listing for a long time. its a pretty big pain to sell parts like that if ur not set up for that
Lol actually I don’t believe so. Ecoatm would get fucked over big time because people would steal phones and immediately rush to an ecoatm and it’d probably be tracked there, meaning ecoatm would have to give the phone back because if you accidentally buy something stolen you get fucked and lose it. So ecoatm would pay out but lose the phone. Plus you need to be able to unlock the phone to sell it AND give them your fuckin ID and verify identity so huge pain in the ass to even try to sell the stolen phone for 6 bucks lol. Idk who’s buying the stolen phones probably dark web shit but they all end up overseas mostly China
when I was younger, I had an old Samsung Galaxy S6 edge that I would use every time I went to my grandma's house. this phone was mine for years, and I had so many pictures (and surprisingly a minecraft pocket edition world I spent YEARS on) and one day I visit just to find out she took it to an eco atm. this phone had some of the last pictures of my childhood dog who recently had passed away on it, and a lot of important photos I had yet to back up. the worst part is, since the battery life was bad, and the screen was slightly cracked, the eco atm didnt even give her money for it... she recycled my phone without my permission (only reason I left it there was I had no internet at home at the time, and I was a kid, I didnt have cell service.)
You would be surprised how many of your supposedly "lost" souvenirs parents and other family elders just throw away as you are growing up. xd They just don't realize how a child can be so deeply attached to some items and/or how can it fully own things. Though, that same child doesn't realize this fact and that it has to somewhat protect/preserve them. It's kinda funny to think their own childhood thingies could have been treated the same in the past.
I got a used 2nd gen SE for 90 USD. 64gb unlocked and in perfect condition. SE3 is really not worth it especially with the SE4 on the way. Oh and its also 2 years old yet still being sold as new. Lol
I actually know someone that got caught taking phones from the electronics section and putting them through the ecoATM. Tried to argue that they never took the phones out of the stores, so it shouldn't be considered shoplifting.
Maybe it's their way of saying "we don't really want to buy it but we'll give you something, because something is better than nothing". Again, better to just have a load of cash, wait near these machines, then offer people more than what the ecoATM offers. Then you might get a good deal on a phone.
@@TheSpotify95weird too as Motorola phones are much more premium and sought after than iPhones better battery camera security customers service and features you'd think the moto would be worth triple the iPhone or Samsung
@@jomsies there very good they make phones with top of the line specs and waterproof while still keeping headphones jack and sd card slot which isn't obsolete as there are 2tb sd cards which is a significant amount of storage for a phone as backup and if your phone gets totaled you can just take the sd card out to save your files
a kiosk that attracts petty thieves with nominal cash payments, holds your stolen property for 30 days, and collects information for law enforcement to pick them up; it's fully automated austerity capitalism!
I've used ecoATM almost a decade ago and I remember getting a good chunk of change for my old phones. Nowadays, I only see the roughest of individuals using them.
I sold an iPhone 15 pro Max 256 GB to it for $565.... It only offered me $9 for my Motorola edge 2024 256 GB which just came out less than 2 months ago and was a $600 phone...
I wonder if you could use like a raspberry pie in a phone-like case with a cheap lcd, and some phone software on it to fool it into thinking it’s a real phone
Kinda doubtful, mostly on the software front. Like maybe android but I really doubt iPhone. Regardless you’d still be losing a shitload of money when that thang offers you 6 bucks for your elaborate phone spoof
the weird part is ive sold phones to the eco atm before and it didnt ask for a signature or fingerprint ever! that feature might depend on the laws in your area... because in akron ohio it dont do either of those...
I haven't been in till Walmart in over 6 months and I am very proud of myself. After they started checking receipts and a guy asked me for mine I held it up for a second tried to hand it to him he did not take it and I kept on walking he started screaming at me and yelling at me to come back and I kept walking. I have not stepped foot in a Walmart ever since.
Just an FYI none of these phone reseller companies actually "recycle" unsold phones. They hand them off to a "recycler" that for a fee ships them off to Africa or Asia for them to "deal with" aka throw in a landfill.
if you wanna sell a phone quickly, head to a small third-party repair shop, they often buy phones. You're obviously not going to get anywhere near ebay prices but you're going to get farrrrrrr better than what these shitty ecoATMs will give you. Many walmarts for example will have a shop inside that would buy your phone. Even if it's totally smashed, the shop I work at in particular will swap a temporary screen onto the phone so we can give you more money if everything else checks out decently.
Used to call this thing my robot boyfriend. He talks to you really nicely and gives you money. More like a robot sugar daddy. Sold my galaxy s6 edge to this bad boy in 2019 and I’m pretty sure I got $40
I also want to say that my tablet which is called a sky pad 10 is just one of my favorite tablets in my life so if you have time to order it online, and unbox it then it will make me very happy. I also want to tell you that this tablet works with the Sim card and try inserting another Sim card in it to see if it works with it because I have heard that this tablet is unlocked and I need proof.
I was thinking about this the other day, but considering the increasing quality of fake phones, and the fact that I think you can easily spoof the information of a cell phone connection, I don’t know how people don’t just throw in a shit ton of fake ones
Possibly the machine takes an xray to ensure the internal components match up? That's probably another reason why it closes the big door. It also needs to look at a unique ID (probably the IMEI) on the phone (which is why that Samsung one didn't work, it probably couldn't get that IMEI). The IMEI will tell you a LOT about a phone, such as what model of phone, and also more importantly, if it's stolen. Even if you fake the IMEI, it's gonna have to be the EXACT SAME phone model, as well as (by my speculation) a matching xray (which can be difficult to fake). If you manage to fake all that, well it has your ID so it can report you to authorities, ESPECIALLY if you try sneaking many phony bricks past them.
Where I’m from these budget phones could get you well over $300 each. The iPhones tho broken could have gotten you at least $400 for the one with no Touch ID, the one with the broken screen could get you like $350.
They want your name, license, adress, email, photo, signature & fingerprint and offer only few bucks for all this private information? And on top of that they want a Phone, too?
These are pretty much honeypots for uh gentlemen who are addicted to spicy substances. Except that it's not a police thing and you still lose the phone they stole from you.
"...I don't think it's worth it. Some iPhones, some Samsungs are alright..." Yeah but that's true with ANY resale sites for phones (and other tech) if it's more than a few years old and/or not in perfect condition, they really don't want it and will give you pennies.
I regularly have to open up EcoATMs for work. For potential legal reasons, I'm not allowed to say exactly what I do. I've seen some of the worst quality phones that people have sold. I have seen phones that have the back completely ripped apart and the battery removed as well as screens so busted up that I'm honestly surprised that they still work.
I wonder if you could root and spoof like a low end phone to pass off as a high end flagship phone so that the machine gives you way more than the phone is worth...
I'm willing to bet this works if you do it right. I'm also willing to bet that the programmers of this machine didn't get paid enough to care to implement advanced checks.
as someone who is using a phone with half the touch screen not working and cant afford a new one i wish i had that many spare phones lmao 😅 learned not to waste time with these subbed
It's so bad it wouldn't even be worth stealing someone's phone in the store and cramming it in, which I assume is how most transactions with these machines haplen.
It irks me that the machine asked what brand you had and listed Android as a brand. Android is an operating system and not a brand of phone manufacturer. I get that it makes it a little easier for the end user but it’s still incorrect/ misleading
So in other words this is for tweakers that steal your phone to make $5 for your loss..... Yeah that thing is useless, I'd rather give it away to a cop than take the stupid prices that machine offers.
Ecoatm used to give you a bunch of money for phones, just under what you would sell it for on FB marketplace. Took a lot of hassle out of selling used phones. now it's junk. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the offers is to be spat on by the goth girl Walmart employee (I'd take it)
Honestly, this is a neat idea, old phones that cant really be resold, like i know i have a couple old phones in my closet that are doing nothing and really arent worth keeping, id take 5 bucks for em if theyre going to be properly recycled rather than tossing them in a e-waste bin at best buy
Why would Walmart care how long you were there you were using a vending machine of theirs they Don't care you were in the actual store recording you were just in the lobby
LOVED the security measures at the end. But as I expected, the machine kept screwing you up for your phones, seems like it's good place to get some spare cash for phones that don't really have any value left. I had a bunch of phones at one time and ended up giving them away to my older relatives that use them for Facebook 😂
6:39 I tried this with my main phone bc i was curious and the device locked up and had the balls to tell me to “call technical support” so i had to rely on the kindness of a stranger. On me though for putting my main phone in there but i got it out in the end.
If I indulged in this with my ancient devices, odds are I'd be having to pay IT to take them off my hands. A slider served me well for a long time until the battery contact points gave up trying so it was more or less dead with a charged battery. My first smartphone was a Huawei H868C which actually may still turn on. It was replaced because using a device with such meager onboard and external space these days is impossible since essential apps (to schedule appointments) are 50-200MB in size. Or more. Even its replacement was outmoded. I just use that as another clock/alarm. Considering I've never paid more than $35 for one and have been using my current one for 7 years now, it's no loss to me. The increasing size of apps still irks me to no end. It's the equivalent of Adobe Reader which is unnecessarily huge for what it is and all the program does is open documents and allows editing. It's not freakin' PhotoShop.
Honestly they really should find a way to do this type of thing with disposable vapes, even if it's just "give us your old vape and get a 5% off coupon" or something, just to help cut down on the waste :3
@@emirbaran08 the Touch ID is paired to logic board. So if you throw original home button away and replace with a new one- you will lose Touch ID and the home button only works as a button. No Touch ID. Fixing this issue is expensive. Often More than the phone is worth
Considering it had broken home button which is paired to logic board and wasn't in best shape, it was not that bad of a offer. Would likely be more of a hassle for him to sell on eBay.
Yea if I remember correctly. The early models didn't have all that security on it when selling a phone. But, I do remember all the smart phone being picked up at all the thrift stores around the time those machines came out. Then yes, I saw people standing at them going through a box of phones to get money. Also reminds me of the troll line. They rip you off and don't pay you anything. Same for selling used cd's, children clothing, etc, etc. House for cash. :)
Motorolas are nice and cheap, but they get deathly slow after a year or two. Plus, if your phone ever dies and you have apps installed on a SD card, there is a chance that it gets soft locked
My biggest fear with these isnt the machine ripping me off, its some random person with nothing to lose running up and accepting a random offer for a phone I dont wanna sell
@@jessicaregina1956 "i repeat" Same here. I repeat, too, I would never give anyone, and especially not a machine, or even my own phone, my fingerprint.
@@TheRealNewWhirledOrder 🤣 okay buddy, do enjoy not having an official identity document which is required for every single transaction in the country!
Hell nah it's not,I had a few phones I didn't need any longer and had on Facebook market for weeks I got the following for these phones Pixel 7 85 Pixel 7a 80 S21 FE 65 I wasn't actually smart on this, I lost my debit card and needed the cash
Idea: buy phone shells then put putty into them to make them look like a phone, put some shiny material on it for the screen then put it in the machine, it will think it’s a real phone and profit
They offered me 230 for an unlocked mint condition I phone 13 pro yesterday. When I told them no thanks, they said "today only we will offer you 276" wow such a generous offer .. it's sickening. They still retail for 800-900. And used 600-700 at the lower end. I guess if you're desperate you do what you need to do. Took my flawless Samsung s21 ultra there in desperation a couple years ago and they offered $130. The eco atm is definitely predatory
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11:27 Note9. Same goes though, used Note8 and Note9 as my first flagships. Many memories.
Big up the new vid
EDIT: the vape phone is a cheap smartwatch crammed into a little vape
please buy a samsung galaxy s 20 plus and a samsung galaxy note 20 ultra and review them in your next video.
Cool 😎😮
ye, I was just about to cmnt ghat
ahh I thought you did that to get comments lol
this machine made eBay prices look better
Yeah
The whole point of these machines (same apply for "Cashies" shops) is convenience, sure you get paid next to nothing, but whatever the machine offer you, you are garanteed to get.
You can get much more on Ebay, but you can also get scammed and get nothing at all (or even negative with all the fees/postage).
Only problem I see is older people who are unaware they can get paid more elsewhere and who will use these machines before other alternatives.
Petty thieves love the ecoatm too.
Frr
I like ebay
Moral of the story, it's only worth it if you have a phone that's completely fucked in a way the machine can't detect.
that was something I took away from the vid too
yeah, I don't think it will be able to detect body damage or internal display damage
Im debating taking my s24ultra. It has water damage (cameras r foggy) a pen from an s23u is stuck and also the phone signal just doesnt work.. $400ish supposedly though
@@localcrackhead2904 Do it!
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As someone who used to service the money side of those machines, we never put $20s in them. Only $1s, $5s, and $10s. So payouts aren't gonna be all that high.
Is gazell paying you? Were you the ones collecting the phones? Did you ship them off? I'm interested in hearing more about your role in these machines.
@@bigk777 no, I used to work for an armored car company. We handled the "ATM" aspect of the machine only. "Supposedly" they did the phones at first too, but that contract changed long before I got there. We were just a 3rd party contractor that was responsible for replacing and replenishing the physical cash inside the vault, and replacing the roll of stickers that it dispenses to place on the devices.
Probably just where you at sold a iPhone 13 gave me all 20s
@@THEJake829 That's interesting information, thanks for sharing
Lies I sold a s22 ultra and got all 20s lmao
At the end, the ATM knows more about me than my own mother...
gonna be a jackpot for whoever gets their database eventually.
Sometimes I'll hang near the ecoATM on a busy day, waiting for someone to get a shit offer so I can swoop in and offer them marginally more in cash. I've gotten some great deals on devices that way
I’ve seen “I buy phones” signs on the eco atm before 😂 peak marketing
@@johnzoid74 "Send me a picture of the offer, I'll beat it" would be a great one
I used to do that at GameStop.
that's very clever! social engineering but cool
@@ocstrangenessDid that at a Cex once. They didn't like it, lol
That machine is the worst nightmare of every privacy advocate
Yeah I expected it to ask for a blood sample next
Well given how without it, it would just be easy to pickpocket walmart shoppers and sell the items to this shop like its a easy walk away fence shop. Do ya really want something like that encouraging folks to make a small profit by stealing phones?
@@joeyghostx Access is needed, though. Some phones won't let you in even after a pre-boot wipe, unless you log into a paired Google account. Although... you could always submit it as "does not power on" for less money.
@@km077 When you put it that way, at least it... some what deters except folks who have done fencing for less in my life.
it kept getting worse
offered my s24 ultra brand new to see how much it will give me. they offered me $150...
see now that is theft right there 💀💀
It is around $380 to $450 they ofter for a s24 ultra, which is still lower then eBay, or Facebook but more then half of used market value. As just looked up online as you can check without even needing to go to the machine
Those machines are not recommend as for convenience and you can get way more selling it yourself, or using as a trade-in if you upgrade down the road.
The only benefit is for those that want to literally recycle a old smart phone and don't care about the money back, or those that literally rather not deal with eBay, or Facebook period and it a new highend phone, then ar least you get a little over half the used market value and don't have to deal with the hassle of reselling it yourself and risk fraud buyers. Better then most pawnshops, or 3rd party cellphone stores in that regard. Budget phones not worth even trying to resell except for on eBay.
i got $175 for an iphone 11 last year
*that phone costs $2,499 btw*
@@aquaslinky-gaming A s24 ultra 256gb is about $950 new.
Man, the cheap phones saga should be a series, everyone would watch them, like grocery phones, chinese phones, unbranded smartphones from untrusted sellers being to put to the test of, can It even run Android?
"Oh no, China stealing our data, FBI watching me, what a world" meanwhile EcoATM:
Yeah they banned Huawei but this useless machine is allowed...
And it’s still there?
I was waiting for it to ask him to spit on that thang, so it can collect some DNA as well lol
This machine LITERALLY pay better back when they where new, now its JUNK
supply/demand
Reverse inflation
@@RoshiGaming no its because they have to cut costs to keep outperforming their last quarter every quarter so prices go up, wages for workers get cut and cash offers go down all to increase that revenue
@@Marynicole830such is the way of capitalism
I have a very rare good experience with Eco ATM. Had a busted up IPhone XR, never bothered trying to sell it on eBay so it sat in my desk. Ended up getting 40$ for it when it was just collecting dust and had cracks all over the back with glass falling out.
The motherboard alone worth like 70 or 80
@@Heu.. you gotta have the hardware for removing the body, and you have to maintain an ebay listing for a long time. its a pretty big pain to sell parts like that if ur not set up for that
@@gamagama69 sell it to some 3rd party repaired shop then.. It will get him much more
Anyway while it was Hassle-free it surely isnt the best way
@@Heu..give it a rest bro, it’s a beaten iPhone XR, it’s a hard sell.
I am 100% sure these ATMs are here to buy stolen smartphone. No way people are okay to sell smartphone that cheap....
Lol actually I don’t believe so. Ecoatm would get fucked over big time because people would steal phones and immediately rush to an ecoatm and it’d probably be tracked there, meaning ecoatm would have to give the phone back because if you accidentally buy something stolen you get fucked and lose it. So ecoatm would pay out but lose the phone. Plus you need to be able to unlock the phone to sell it AND give them your fuckin ID and verify identity so huge pain in the ass to even try to sell the stolen phone for 6 bucks lol. Idk who’s buying the stolen phones probably dark web shit but they all end up overseas mostly China
Okay, that makes sense
You'd probably have to sell it before the IMEI gets banned because I'm pretty sure they would detect and cross reference it.
You know the machine takes ur ID?
@@ikeachair9874 You know people manage to launder money with fake ID?....
when I was younger, I had an old Samsung Galaxy S6 edge that I would use every time I went to my grandma's house. this phone was mine for years, and I had so many pictures (and surprisingly a minecraft pocket edition world I spent YEARS on) and one day I visit just to find out she took it to an eco atm. this phone had some of the last pictures of my childhood dog who recently had passed away on it, and a lot of important photos I had yet to back up. the worst part is, since the battery life was bad, and the screen was slightly cracked, the eco atm didnt even give her money for it... she recycled my phone without my permission (only reason I left it there was I had no internet at home at the time, and I was a kid, I didnt have cell service.)
and that's the last time i'd ever speak to gramma
You would be surprised how many of your supposedly "lost" souvenirs parents and other family elders just throw away as you are growing up. xd They just don't realize how a child can be so deeply attached to some items and/or how can it fully own things. Though, that same child doesn't realize this fact and that it has to somewhat protect/preserve them. It's kinda funny to think their own childhood thingies could have been treated the same in the past.
Definitely. horrible person, wish the worst on her. @@xChimkin
Time to send grandma to a nursing home and never visit her
Tip her down the stairs
Imagine when you select "No thanks" it cracks your screen and plays a laughing emoji gif
LMAOOO
64 dollars for a 22 SE is insane. I can probably get one for 64/mo rn. 😂. Also the androids were criminally undervalued. 😢
I got a used 2nd gen SE for 90 USD. 64gb unlocked and in perfect condition. SE3 is really not worth it especially with the SE4 on the way. Oh and its also 2 years old yet still being sold as new. Lol
I paid $80 for a SE3 a while back lol, those things aren’t worth very much so if the home button dies your phone is basically totalled
I actually know someone that got caught taking phones from the electronics section and putting them through the ecoATM. Tried to argue that they never took the phones out of the stores, so it shouldn't be considered shoplifting.
Moto g stylus + eco atm = Why $6? (like all eco atm offers)
Maybe it's their way of saying "we don't really want to buy it but we'll give you something, because something is better than nothing".
Again, better to just have a load of cash, wait near these machines, then offer people more than what the ecoATM offers. Then you might get a good deal on a phone.
Yeah
@@TheSpotify95weird too as Motorola phones are much more premium and sought after than iPhones better battery camera security customers service and features you'd think the moto would be worth triple the iPhone or Samsung
@@Jaden-eh6rhhuuuhhhhh. Its 2024 wake up
@@jomsies there very good they make phones with top of the line specs and waterproof while still keeping headphones jack and sd card slot which isn't obsolete as there are 2tb sd cards which is a significant amount of storage for a phone as backup and if your phone gets totaled you can just take the sd card out to save your files
a kiosk that attracts petty thieves with nominal cash payments, holds your stolen property for 30 days, and collects information for law enforcement to pick them up; it's fully automated austerity capitalism!
Good. If you steal someone's property and try to sell it, you deserve jail time.
I kinda thought thats what these were basically.
How is attracting law enforcement (the government) capitalism?
@@theredenchilada8831 Law enforcement (the government) is necessary to maintain our capitalist system as we know it.
@@aotmr1604ACAB
I've used ecoATM almost a decade ago and I remember getting a good chunk of change for my old phones. Nowadays, I only see the roughest of individuals using them.
You gotta trick the machine for maximum payout
@@_stretch247 how can you trick the machine? It knows what your device is and is making an offer out of a database.
How is this somehow worse than gamestop trade pricing?? HOW???
11:28 😂 That note 8 literally says Note 9 on the back 😅
I sold an iPhone 15 pro Max 256 GB to it for $565.... It only offered me $9 for my Motorola edge 2024 256 GB which just came out less than 2 months ago and was a $600 phone...
I would’ve bought it from you for more than $565
The iphone 15 pro max is a trash phone though
@@CollynPlayz yes it is LOL
@@Warp2090nah iPhone 15s are decent have you ever used one do you own one?
@@Warp2090 Just like all iPhones
I wonder if you could use like a raspberry pie in a phone-like case with a cheap lcd, and some phone software on it to fool it into thinking it’s a real phone
Kinda doubtful, mostly on the software front. Like maybe android but I really doubt iPhone. Regardless you’d still be losing a shitload of money when that thang offers you 6 bucks for your elaborate phone spoof
Seeing my hometown repped in a local news article about stolen phones is hilarious tbh.
😂
11:22 loved it so much he forgot what it was
@@neverstopz9045 lol too funny. seriously loved Note8/ 9 as my first flagships tho. late night editing / voiceover
@johnzoid74 all good, and notes were my fave as well
0:07 me, who goes to Walmart anywhere BUT my home state 💀
Fr tho😂. There's none by me
the weird part is ive sold phones to the eco atm before and it didnt ask for a signature or fingerprint ever! that feature might depend on the laws in your area... because in akron ohio it dont do either of those...
very good point! cool insight there as I didn’t even think of that
hi fellow Akronian or whatever. I'm from Cleveland
Neither in houston , they only ask for the id and picture
Blue Redbox 0:16
Rip
They pay like 20-30% of what you could get selling it directly
I commend your dedication, you stood there over 2 hours. The moment people start staring, I would’ve booked it to another Walmart. Great vid.
I haven't been in till Walmart in over 6 months and I am very proud of myself. After they started checking receipts and a guy asked me for mine I held it up for a second tried to hand it to him he did not take it and I kept on walking he started screaming at me and yelling at me to come back and I kept walking. I have not stepped foot in a Walmart ever since.
I’ve been going to ALDI to try to avoid Walmart too
Just an FYI none of these phone reseller companies actually "recycle" unsold phones. They hand them off to a "recycler" that for a fee ships them off to Africa or Asia for them to "deal with" aka throw in a landfill.
But how does anyone make money on this transaction?
Two hours at Walmart and all I got was this lousy $6 offer!
lmao somebody bought their youtube channel
@@comic--sanslol
5:17 took a massive puff right there perfectly timed (no scope)
What would happen if you plugged in a usb killer to the EcoATM?
Likely illegal
Peace was never an option
i think that counts as terrorism
@@foreverpainfulyeah poor usb killer 😢
@@supergamer1 bwahahaha
if you wanna sell a phone quickly, head to a small third-party repair shop, they often buy phones. You're obviously not going to get anywhere near ebay prices but you're going to get farrrrrrr better than what these shitty ecoATMs will give you. Many walmarts for example will have a shop inside that would buy your phone. Even if it's totally smashed, the shop I work at in particular will swap a temporary screen onto the phone so we can give you more money if everything else checks out decently.
i put a mini phone in there one time and it said $1
I wonder if it recognises game consoles, like if you put a Switch in there how much would it try and give you?
If his main phone breaks he has so many spares he Will never have trouble with losing access to his line
haha yes I have much much more than what’s in the video 😂
@@johnzoid74 You should make a video of "how many phones do i have? (2024)" like other people did.
Used to call this thing my robot boyfriend. He talks to you really nicely and gives you money. More like a robot sugar daddy. Sold my galaxy s6 edge to this bad boy in 2019 and I’m pretty sure I got $40
selling a v*pe phone to an ecoATM is crazier than everything
lol only if it bought it!
I also want to say that my tablet which is called a sky pad 10 is just one of my favorite tablets in my life so if you have time to order it online, and unbox it then it will make me very happy. I also want to tell you that this tablet works with the Sim card and try inserting another Sim card in it to see if it works with it because I have heard that this tablet is unlocked and I need proof.
i put a completely destroyed (i even had to tape some parts back together) iphone se (1st gen) in there, and it gave me 5 dollars for it
Haha, not bad, $5 for a completely obliterated phone that can't be re-used.
I was thinking about this the other day, but considering the increasing quality of fake phones, and the fact that I think you can easily spoof the information of a cell phone connection, I don’t know how people don’t just throw in a shit ton of fake ones
Possibly the machine takes an xray to ensure the internal components match up? That's probably another reason why it closes the big door. It also needs to look at a unique ID (probably the IMEI) on the phone (which is why that Samsung one didn't work, it probably couldn't get that IMEI). The IMEI will tell you a LOT about a phone, such as what model of phone, and also more importantly, if it's stolen.
Even if you fake the IMEI, it's gonna have to be the EXACT SAME phone model, as well as (by my speculation) a matching xray (which can be difficult to fake).
If you manage to fake all that, well it has your ID so it can report you to authorities, ESPECIALLY if you try sneaking many phony bricks past them.
Some people do put fake phones in there
I think it offers you the price of a fake lol
@@ktheveg fake or stolen id. Boom
If that first phone were for sale for that price, I'd buy a bunch for me and my others.
Where I’m from these budget phones could get you well over $300 each. The iPhones tho broken could have gotten you at least $400 for the one with no Touch ID, the one with the broken screen could get you like $350.
Not a chance in hell a random machine is getting my biometric data. What were you thinking dude?
not to mention state ID
They want your name, license, adress, email, photo, signature & fingerprint and offer only few bucks for all this private information? And on top of that they want a Phone, too?
So criminals can’t get away with stealing
Legendary youtube recommendation pull, you're an absolute madman.
These are pretty much honeypots for uh gentlemen who are addicted to spicy substances. Except that it's not a police thing and you still lose the phone they stole from you.
Like druggies use it to get some money real quick? Or am i understanding wrong
GameStop: it’s perfect just how I built it.
"...I don't think it's worth it. Some iPhones, some Samsungs are alright..."
Yeah but that's true with ANY resale sites for phones (and other tech) if it's more than a few years old and/or not in perfect condition, they really don't want it and will give you pennies.
I’d say EcoATM one of the most convenient options available.. if you can find one
I regularly have to open up EcoATMs for work. For potential legal reasons, I'm not allowed to say exactly what I do. I've seen some of the worst quality phones that people have sold. I have seen phones that have the back completely ripped apart and the battery removed as well as screens so busted up that I'm honestly surprised that they still work.
I wonder if you could root and spoof like a low end phone to pass off as a high end flagship phone so that the machine gives you way more than the phone is worth...
I'm willing to bet this works if you do it right. I'm also willing to bet that the programmers of this machine didn't get paid enough to care to implement advanced checks.
as someone who is using a phone with half the touch screen not working and cant afford a new one i wish i had that many spare phones lmao 😅 learned not to waste time with these subbed
6:05 imagine if someone just left their phone in the machine just so they can charge it 😂
😂 ez
It's so bad it wouldn't even be worth stealing someone's phone in the store and cramming it in, which I assume is how most transactions with these machines haplen.
i like how it asks "folding phone" that actually made me happy since im using a folding phone
It irks me that the machine asked what brand you had and listed Android as a brand. Android is an operating system and not a brand of phone manufacturer. I get that it makes it a little easier for the end user but it’s still incorrect/ misleading
So in other words this is for tweakers that steal your phone to make $5 for your loss..... Yeah that thing is useless, I'd rather give it away to a cop than take the stupid prices that machine offers.
That's why Walmart selling refurbished phones
me and my family had a ton of old phones at home we wound up getting like over 1k but we had a lot of phones some we only got 3 bucks for lol
Ecoatm used to give you a bunch of money for phones, just under what you would sell it for on FB marketplace. Took a lot of hassle out of selling used phones. now it's junk. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the offers is to be spat on by the goth girl Walmart employee (I'd take it)
Bro this is youtube comments not pornhub no need to put your fantasies in here
@@Engel-07lol bro I didn't think of that until you'd brought it up but that's tiiiiiight
Anyone not gonna talk about the Redbox at 0:16 that is blue for some reason?
no idea why, but all walmart REDboxes are blue. prob because walmart just loooves their blue
Blue box☝️
Evil redbox
Traitorbox!
The fact that a vape smartphone exists takes all of my hopes in humanity.
So are we just going to skip over the fact that he has a redbox near him?
loll it wasn't too long ago when my dad still used, though with free movie coupons at that
Ecoatm acts as a database housing every client's ID, face, and fingerprint. Good to know
i sold my iphone 11 with a shattered corner for $180. then again i put no cracks and it didnt detect it
Honestly, this is a neat idea, old phones that cant really be resold, like i know i have a couple old phones in my closet that are doing nothing and really arent worth keeping, id take 5 bucks for em if theyre going to be properly recycled rather than tossing them in a e-waste bin at best buy
I bet the ATM just gives you malware/spyware and gives such a low price that you take it back
Why would Walmart care how long you were there you were using a vending machine of theirs they Don't care you were in the actual store recording you were just in the lobby
Yea no wonder these things are not a thing in Finland because it would have been taken down so fast as a scam...
LOVED the security measures at the end. But as I expected, the machine kept screwing you up for your phones, seems like it's good place to get some spare cash for phones that don't really have any value left. I had a bunch of phones at one time and ended up giving them away to my older relatives that use them for Facebook 😂
Epic video. So cooled.
6:39 I tried this with my main phone bc i was curious and the device locked up and had the balls to tell me to “call technical support” so i had to rely on the kindness of a stranger. On me though for putting my main phone in there but i got it out in the end.
6:38 I'm betting you'll never be using these for anything where you care about security ever again.
If I indulged in this with my ancient devices, odds are I'd be having to pay IT to take them off my hands. A slider served me well for a long time until the battery contact points gave up trying so it was more or less dead with a charged battery. My first smartphone was a Huawei H868C which actually may still turn on. It was replaced because using a device with such meager onboard and external space these days is impossible since essential apps (to schedule appointments) are 50-200MB in size. Or more.
Even its replacement was outmoded. I just use that as another clock/alarm. Considering I've never paid more than $35 for one and have been using my current one for 7 years now, it's no loss to me. The increasing size of apps still irks me to no end. It's the equivalent of Adobe Reader which is unnecessarily huge for what it is and all the program does is open documents and allows editing. It's not freakin' PhotoShop.
1:13 The Blue phone is mine
💀
Honestly they really should find a way to do this type of thing with disposable vapes, even if it's just "give us your old vape and get a 5% off coupon" or something, just to help cut down on the waste :3
65 bucks for iphone se 2022? Thats a crime
Fixing lost Touch ID quite expensive. $65 very fair
@@johnzoid74I skipped that part lol 😂 But still I think $65 isn't a great deal
@@johnzoid74Actually I don't know much about the phone market in USA so you might be right Idk
@@emirbaran08 the Touch ID is paired to logic board. So if you throw original home button away and replace with a new one- you will lose Touch ID and the home button only works as a button. No Touch ID. Fixing this issue is expensive. Often More than the phone is worth
Considering it had broken home button which is paired to logic board and wasn't in best shape, it was not that bad of a offer. Would likely be more of a hassle for him to sell on eBay.
Yea if I remember correctly. The early models didn't have all that security on it when selling a phone. But, I do remember all the smart phone being picked up at all the thrift stores around the time those machines came out. Then yes, I saw people standing at them going through a box of phones to get money. Also reminds me of the troll line. They rip you off and don't pay you anything. Same for selling used cd's, children clothing, etc, etc. House for cash. :)
The greenwashing atm
I’m never recycling any of tech, but for good reason… well, I technically AM recycling it, as I’m breathing new life into it with mods.
i found 2 google locked tablets on top once couldnt bypass them sadly
bro you could've reset it and then used the bootloader
the shopping cart noises made me think i was tweaking
3:40 how did it unplug itself?
It retracts
The point is not to make money selling it, it's to entice people to not throw away old phones but give it to recycle it.
Motorolas are nice and cheap, but they get deathly slow after a year or two. Plus, if your phone ever dies and you have apps installed on a SD card, there is a chance that it gets soft locked
My biggest fear with these isnt the machine ripping me off, its some random person with nothing to lose running up and accepting a random offer for a phone I dont wanna sell
I would never give anyone, and especially not a machine, or even my own phone, my fingerprint.
Let us know how that works out in countries where its needed on your id card😂
@jessicaregina1956 "😂"
You're, very obviously, not here for a serious conversation.
Let me know if that changes.
@@TheRealNewWhirledOrder i repeat: let us know how that works out when your government requires your fingerprint to be on your official identity card.
@@jessicaregina1956 "i repeat"
Same here. I repeat, too, I would never give anyone, and especially not a machine, or even my own phone, my fingerprint.
@@TheRealNewWhirledOrder 🤣 okay buddy, do enjoy not having an official identity document which is required for every single transaction in the country!
In Germany we had similar devices like these for selling phones for a few years, but they disappeared out of nowhere after a few years
Hell nah it's not,I had a few phones I didn't need any longer and had on Facebook market for weeks
I got the following for these phones
Pixel 7 85
Pixel 7a 80
S21 FE 65
I wasn't actually smart on this, I lost my debit card and needed the cash
yea that’s what I’m saying is the machine is a bit predatory in that way. so convenient to people who need cash or don’t want to deal with it
Idea: buy phone shells then put putty into them to make them look like a phone, put some shiny material on it for the screen then put it in the machine, it will think it’s a real phone and profit
11:27 bro that's a note 9...
@@wheelotime2581 yeah yeah my bad.
You can only imagine what else that machine is doing when your phone is plugged into it
10:00 only 65$ this is a robbery for a 300$ phone
it’s not great but the home button is broke and I’ve lost Touch ID. Fixing it is quite a pain.
Also the Motorola
They offered me 230 for an unlocked mint condition I phone 13 pro yesterday. When I told them no thanks, they said "today only we will offer you 276" wow such a generous offer .. it's sickening. They still retail for 800-900. And used 600-700 at the lower end. I guess if you're desperate you do what you need to do. Took my flawless Samsung s21 ultra there in desperation a couple years ago and they offered $130. The eco atm is definitely predatory
Watching this on a moto g go xD 0:52
That’s awesome,
Im watching on a moto g pure
Actually offered decent money for my old xr. $100 dollars and didn’t have to worry about selling it
Seems like it only cares about Apple phones and gives horrible offers on anything else.
4:59 it’s a girl guys 😂
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