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If you’re part of a group — a church, scout troop, club, charity — that needs to raise money, here’s an idea.

An outfit called EcoPhones — headed up by Charles Drayton of Dallas — will buy old cell phones and other used electronic devices. The idea is that the fund-raising volunteers in your club or other group come up with ways to collect people’s no-longer-used phones and other electronic devices and send them to EcoPhones, which will pay according to a price list posted on the EcoPhones Web site.

PHOTO: A Nokia N91 could be worth $300 for your group

A typical price for an old phone is 50 cents or $1, but higher prices show up frequently on the list as well, $15 and $25 and all the way up to a hefty $300 for a used Nokia N91.

Here’s some verbiage from the EcoPhones site:

“Looking for a great way to raise thousands of dollars for your school, church or club? The EcoPhones Recycling Fundraiser pays up to $300 per item. There’s nothing to buy and nothing to sell. Simply ask parents, neighbors, coworkers and local businesses to donate and recycle their used consumer electronics.”

Solicited items can include:

• Cell phones

• Ink-jet printer cartridges

• DVD movies and videogames

• Portable DVD players

• Laptop computers

• MP3 players

• XBoxes, Sony Playstations, Wii

• Digital cameras and digital video cameras (DVRs)

• Digital picture frames

• Portable navigation and GPS devices (such as Garmin, Magellan, Tom-Tom)

Traders Guide of Texas has no connection with EcoPhones, but this looks legitimate and may be of interest to our readers who are planning fund-raising projects. This could work at least as well as yard sales and bake sales.

For information direct from EcoPhones, go to www.ecophones.com or call 1-888-326-7466 or 1-888-EcoPhones. Or write info@ecophones.com.

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