OK, I have a deal for you. Scour your home, grab your old, outdated or defunct electronics, and ship them off for free to someone who then cuts you a check. Sounds too good to be true, right? Apparently, it's not.
Since March, YouRenew.com -- started by Yale students Bob Kasey, 21, and Rich Littlehale, 22, as part of an entrepreneurial program -- has been paying people to reuse or recycle their old electronics. The user interface on YouRenew is clean and dead simple to use. No accounts, no passwords. Just search for the product you have, enter some criteria, and decide whether YouRenew.com's offer is worth your while. Considering the shelf life of most electronics these days, the answer probably will be yes.
"It's kind of a perfect time for this," said Alysa Perry, 22, YouRenew.com's director of marketing and PR. "Not only is green very popular these days, but also because we're in a recession ... people like the prospect of getting a little bit back."
The YouRenew team has grown to eight now, and I'm eager to see the response they get. Can they really recoup their payout by selling these products on the wholesale market? I hope so, because this is the kind of quid-pro-quo that can really get people to act.
Here's the company line:
YouRenew.com is the perfect place for you to recycle or sell used cell phones, mp3 players, digital cameras and graphing calculators. You can also recycle and sell laptops, video game consoles, external hard drives, video games or DVDs. If you can't find your device in our catalog or we can't pay for it, you can always ship it for free and we'll recycle it safely. So look up your device today, go green and get green!
Since March, YouRenew.com -- started by Yale students Bob Kasey, 21, and Rich Littlehale, 22, as part of an entrepreneurial program -- has been paying people to reuse or recycle their old electronics. The user interface on YouRenew is clean and dead simple to use. No accounts, no passwords. Just search for the product you have, enter some criteria, and decide whether YouRenew.com's offer is worth your while. Considering the shelf life of most electronics these days, the answer probably will be yes.
"It's kind of a perfect time for this," said Alysa Perry, 22, YouRenew.com's director of marketing and PR. "Not only is green very popular these days, but also because we're in a recession ... people like the prospect of getting a little bit back."
The YouRenew team has grown to eight now, and I'm eager to see the response they get. Can they really recoup their payout by selling these products on the wholesale market? I hope so, because this is the kind of quid-pro-quo that can really get people to act.
Here's the company line:
YouRenew.com is the perfect place for you to recycle or sell used cell phones, mp3 players, digital cameras and graphing calculators. You can also recycle and sell laptops, video game consoles, external hard drives, video games or DVDs. If you can't find your device in our catalog or we can't pay for it, you can always ship it for free and we'll recycle it safely. So look up your device today, go green and get green!
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