Hi - Thos from Gazelle here. Just wanted to chime in with a response to a couple of these. @sysop073 and @thorax - the Netflix connection is right now is more

Hi - Thos from Gazelle here. Just wanted to chime in with a response to a couple of these. @sysop073 and @thorax - the Netflix connection is right now is more about how easy we want to make it for folks. We try to take free shipping one step further by sending pre-paid packaging to our customers to send their stuff back to us. Looking at it longer term, by providing a model where people can sell end of use items to us with no hassle at a fair price, owning a cell phone could start to be more like renting a movie. @mynameishere - You are right - there are a lot of super shady dealers out there. However we're not selling to them. We've invested a lot in the technology and process behind the scenes to develop optimized channels to move the items through. We're trying to encourage reuse as much as possible - the majority of what we buy isn't junk at all, and in fact has at least one round in the consumer cycle left in it. We sell some of it directly to consumers ourselves ( http://stores.ebay.com/SecondRotation http://stores.ebay.com/SecondRotation for example) and have carefully selected wholesale and recycling partners that will take whatever we have. We're absolutely committed to behaving in an unimpeachably ethical manner.