Brightstar is probably one of the major US players you could look at. Take a look at their relationship with T-Mobile - they handle the trade-in piece (and reve

Brightstar is probably one of the major US players you could look at. Take a look at their relationship with T-Mobile - they handle the trade-in piece (and reverse logistics) which is revenue generating for T-Mobile. With experience the trade-in provider can offer a fixed rate per sku / consumer reported quality once it has a sense of statistical quality of items and screening procedures for store trade-ins. This actually looks more like a situation where apple had already assessed as not reselable under their policies - so these were perhaps all for recycling only?