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Making money for old phones with CEX

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Before anyone gets excited, this isn’t a sponsored post. (I’m very open to working with phone brands or recycling /decluttering folks if anyone is offering mind.)

A little while before Christmas I won a new Huawei P20 Pro mobile phone, I may have enthused about it at the time. Which meant that my trusty Samsung S4 was surplus to requirements. Tim had made noises about stashing it as a backup phone, but when I was in CEX with the kids a couple days ago I noticed they were selling phones off that age for a fair bit of money. Sure enough when I checked online, it looked like they might offer me around 50, or more in vouchers and *that* could go towards the camera lens I want for taking gig pictures. (Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 thank you for asking and no, I’ve no idea what that means. Yet.)

I factory reset the phone after checking everything was backed up and retrieving the SD card and trotted down to CEX. The process is fairly straightforward – you do need id if it’s the first time you’ve done it, but I have a membership card from when we streamlined the DVDs a couple of years ago. They give you a preliminary offer and it takes around 40 minutes to test the phone. I used my time wisely with a trip to the library where I paid off my library fines and got them to reset my email address so that I should get reminders and not fines from now on.

Back to CEX and I got a voucher for £69. Would have got slightly more if I’d thought to find the charger and cable too, but as the lens I want is £88 online for the STM version I’m quite happy. Particularly when you think I bought the phone on ebay for £115 vs have had several years use out of it.

So when you get around to upgrading your phone, do think carefully about what you do with the old handset, it could be worth more than you think. Particularly if you’ve looked after it with a decent case and a screen protector too ?

The #GoGreen Blogtrail with BumpPR – Calafant paint your own treehouse giveaway

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You may remember that a little while ago I went to a fabulous PR birthday party, and as part of it, in the raffle, I won a wonderful Calafant paint your own treehouse. And today, as part of the #GoGreen blogtrail, I’ve got one to giveaway.

There are lots of fabulous environmentally themed prizes to be won across the blogs taking part.

Bump PR GoGreen Blogtrail

Mine’s the best, of course 😉 Seriously though, this is a beautiful toy. Made of cardboard, it arrives flat packed, and although it’s fairly easy to put together, it still feels solid, and has great play value, painted or not. It didn’t take very long to assemble, even with help 😉

a bit of help

The detail is wonderful. There’s a balcony with double doors.

front door and balcony

And you can look right through it (which means you can reach in through to play.)

peeko

It’s the perfect size for Playmobil Easter bunnies.

just the right size for playmobil

And sturdy enough for a two year old to play with.

playtime

Although really I think it’s a fairy castle. What do you think?

a fairy castle in the garden

Can you tell that I love it? (The whole Calafant range is fabulous, check them out at Asobi.) And as my part of the BumpPR #Gogreen blogtrail, you can win one.

As ever, all I’m asking for is a comment, just tell me who would live in the treehouse if you won it 🙂 You’ve got until next 23.59 Tuesday, 29th April to take part.

Additional optional entries (leave a separate comment for each entry or it won’t be counted.)

  • Tweet: “I’d love to win a Calafant paint your own treehouse with @liveotherwise on the #GoGreen #Blogtrail how about you? https://liveotherwise.co.uk/makingitup/2014/04/23/the-gogreen-blogtrail-with-bumppr-calafant-paint-your-own-treehouse-giveaway/”
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Now, as this is part of a blogtrail, that means there’s some other lovely bloggers taking part with some other awesome prizes. If you click on the BumpPR badge right here, you’ll get whizzed along to the next blog in the blogtrail, although I’ve got a list of them all as well.

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The other blogs:

Kirsty and Clara at My Two Mums are giving away a Frugi voucher

Kiran at Mummy Says is giving away a BabaSling organic

Lauren at Real Housewife of Suffolk County is giving away an Aleva Naturals Gift Set

I’m giving away a Calafant paint your own treehouse

Bex at The Mummy Adventure is giving away a TotsBots pack

Vikki at Love from mummy is giving away a Cocoon Towel from The Little Green Sheep

Kara at Chelsea Mamma is giving away a Drool Monkey and Tushi Stick from Cinnamon Sue

Terms and conditions.

This giveaway is promoted by me, Jax Blunt, and sponsored by BumpPR who are supplying the prizes. No recompense has been received by me for running this draw.

This prize draw runs until 23.59 BST Tuesday 29th April. There is one prize of a Calafant paint your own treehouse. Fulfilment will be arranged by BumpPR and the winner must agree to have details passed to them for that purpose. Open to adults 18 and over with UK delivery address. Entry is by comment as described above. Non completion of the mandatory entry requirement will disqualify any other entries by that individual. The winner will be chosen using a random draw plugin from all comment entries, and notified by email within 48 hours. They must claim the prize within 28 days.

Entry into the competition constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions.