| The
website, which pays cash for used cell phones, wants more
phones to give to law enforcement agencies.
OCALA, Fla. (PRWEB) July 5, 2005 -- CellForCash.com,
which pays cash for used cell phones and then re-markets
them around the world, put out a call today for more cell
phones that it can donate for free to law enforcement agencies
and affiliated groups through its successful 911 Cell Phone
Bank program. Individuals can go to the www.CellForCash.com
website, print out a mailing label and then send in their
phone.
CellForCash.com
now donates around 1,000 cell phones each month under the
program, but demand is on the rise. Besides the phones,
the program also provides participating agencies with much-needed
cash. The agencies also provide the emergency phones to
shelters, victims of abuse, and senior citizens in need.
“Since we started this program a little more than
a year ago, law enforcement agencies have enthusiastically
partnered with us to get emergency cell phones into the
hands of people who need them,” said James Mosieur,
chief executive officer of RMS Communications Group Inc.,
CellForCash.com’s
parent company. “We need the public to send us more
phones so we can keep up with the increasing demand.”
CellForCash.com
established its 911 Cell Phone Bank in May 2004 as a means
for supplying law enforcement agencies and other organizations
with emergency cell phones and cash. Since then, more than
120 law enforcement agencies and other groups have signed
up with the program, and CellForCash.com has provided the
agencies with thousands of cell phones. Kathy Connolly,
a victims’ advocate with the Leon County Sheriff’s
Office in Florida, said it took her awhile to believe that
the 911 Cell Phone Bank really worked as claimed. “We
in law enforcement are pretty skeptical folks, so it took
a while to convince us that they would keep us in free cell
phones, actually send us cash for the phones we collect
from members of the community, and that there was no catch,”
Connolly said. “It’s like going to the grocery
store and being paid to take home your groceries.”
Connolly said her community received scores of free cell
phones and several hundred dollars in cash under the program.
As a result, she nominated CellForCash.com
for her department’s Community Service Award earlier
this year. Currently, more than 1,000 are being shipped
to the agencies every month by CellForCash.com.
In addition, CellForCash.com
has also provided the agencies with $225,000 in cash.
Here is how the program works: Participating agencies collect
cell phones from their communities and send them postage-paid
to CellForCash.com.
CellForCash.com
then determines the "best use" for each phone;
phones with high market value are converted to cash. For
every phone converted to cash, CellForCash.com
donates one working 911 cell phone from its inventory.
Cell phones best suited for emergency use are constantly
added to the 911 emergency phone inventory. Phones that
are unusable or damaged are responsibly recycled.
Participating agencies receive the cash value of re-marketable
cell phones AND have access to the inventory pool of 911
cell phones. “New law enforcement agencies are signing
up for the 911 Cell Phone Bank program every week because
they recognize the value that it offers to their communities
and to the citizens who are in need of emergency phones,”
Mosieur said. “We’d be delighted to have more
agencies come on board.” Additional information about
the 911 Cell Phone Bank program can be found by visiting
www.CellForCash.com
and clicking “911 Cell Phone Bank” at the bottom
of thepage.
About CellForCash.com
CellForCash.com
pays cash for used cell phones, and makes the process simple
by displaying the phones it will buy and the prices it will
pay for them right on the web site. It also provides sellers
with already-addressed, postage-paid mailing boxes. Its
QuickShip
option makes the process even faster. The site also accepts
phones for recycling. For more information visit the web
site at www.CellForCash.com.
About RMS Communications Group Inc.
Based in Ocala, Fla., RMS Communications Group Inc. provides
consumers and businesses a convenient way to get cash for
cell phones that otherwise lay idle. The company often partners
with non-profit organizations that find the collection and
sale of old cell phones to be an excellent source of revenue.
More information can be found at http://www.RMSComm.com.
Contact Information
Lynda Gorsuch
RMS Communications Group Inc.
http://www.CellForCash.com
800-627-2022 |
