eBay Instant Sale sell Seconds Old Electronics and Unwanted Gifts

Out with the old and in with shiny new gadgets. If you’re among those gadget-owners getting rid of the “old,” plenty of retailers offer ways to sell back your unwanted electronic holiday presents and old gadgets. Here’s another: eBay Instant Sale.
The eBay Instant Sale service lets you skip the lengthy eBay bidding process and sell your electronics directly for cash online or through an iPhone application, receiving a PayPal payment in seconds.
Get $30 to $42 for an Apple iPhone 2G and about $72 to $130 for 3G and 3GS iPhones. Offers are up to $194 for newer iPhone 4 models. Sellers eager to make quick cash can get up to $407 for a 64 GB iPhone 4S, $328 for 16GB and $347 for 32GB.
Newer MacBook Pros and MacBook Air sales will put around $400 to $800 in your pocket.
The instant offers service is enabled by an eBay team working with AllTechWholeSale, a top-rated eBay seller. eBay does not receive a cut in these sales. The eBay Instant Sale service launched in October 2010 in a testing phase and re-launched as a full version in February 2011. Since then, more than 4 million offers have been generated.
The top five sales have been Apple iPhones, Samsung, HTC, Blackberry and Motorola products, according to the AllTechWholeSale team.
To find out how much your electronic product is worth, input a brand or product name, then complete a short survey about the storage capacity, functionality, power adapter availability, and its physical condition in terms of display, missing components, scratches and more. Broken gadgets can be traded up for cash too.
There is also an updated version of the Instant Sales app, eBay’s 10th iPhone-capable app, available. The current version is compatible with iPod touch and iPad.
As a seller, after after you accept the eBay Instant Sales immediate offer, you’ll get a prompt to print a free shipping label, so you can pack and ship your unwanted items.
Other trade-in services include Gazelle, which also offers free shipping (not applicable to items worth less than $1). Payment is available via check, Amazon gift card or PayPal. Best Buy similarly offers an electronics buy-back program. Customers can drop off items at certain Best Buy locations in exchange for a gift card. There are guaranteed rates for purchases that fluctuate in value depending on when you sell the items after you buy them.
Are you willing to trade in your gadgets using eBay Instant Sale? Have you used any of these options to get money for your old gadgets?