Kelly doesn’t just tell you what a bad ESN is – she does it with style!

What is a bad ESN/MEID/IMEI?

A cell phone can have a bad ESN/MEID/IMEI number for one of 3 reasons:

1. The phone was reported lost or stolen in the past.
2. The phone is still active on the owner’s wireless carrier account.
3. There is money owed on the wireless carrier account to which the ESN/MEID/IMEI is connected.

Only the owner of the wireless account to which the phone was connected can clear an ESN/MEID/IMEI number.

What this means to you:

Before submitting a phone to MaxBack, please ensure:

• Your phone is completely disconnected from your wireless service account.
• You do not have an unpaid balance due on your account with your wireless provider.
• You have not reported the phone lost or stolen in the past.
• You remove any passcode or lock-code on your phone.
• You remove any personal data you wish to save.

If you are in doubt, call your wireless provider and ask if the phone you intend to send in is cleared to be activated by another user.

MaxBack does not accept any cell phones with bad or invalid ESN/MEID/IMEI numbers. But if you’re selling a device with a good ESN, we’ll pay you top dollar for it! Sell your cell phone, tablet, iPod, or video game to MaxBack today!

Every day, millions of cell phones and tablets are neglected in the United States alone. Last year, thousands of these phones were given a second life at MaxBack.com. Many more are still waiting for that chance.

Do you have an iPhone, tablet, or other electronic device that you don’t use anymore? Then go to MaxBack.com today. You’ll get cash, and you phone will be given a second life and the love it deserves. So don’t wait – go to MaxBack.com today.

Special thanks to Alyssa Hanisek, William Bradley, and Mike Berlin.

Here at MaxBack, we’ve been telling you over and over how fast we pay. But HOW fast IS fast, right?! Well now you can find out — check out our new FastPay Forecaster, demonstrated in the screencast below.

Wondering what the magic algorithm is behind the FastPay Forecaster? Well, a lady never tells her secrets, but here are some tips if you want to get paid fast:

1. Print your own USPS pre-paid shipping label at home. (Don’t worry, we make it easy!)
   Not only can you ship the same day, you are also being environmentally-friendly when you reuse a box you have sitting around your house!
2. Drop your item in the mailbox right away.
   We use USPS so that you can hand your package right to your mail carrier rather than having to make a special trip to ship your item.
3. Choose PayPal or Amazon.com gift card as your payment type.
   PayPal is the fastest way to get paid — as soon as one of our inspectors signs off on your item, we can make a deposit to your account! If you’re not a PayPal kind of person, we also offer Amazon gift cards with are delivered electronically via email — you could be shopping online the same afternoon!

Learn more about how MaxBack pays you fast, find your cell phone or other electronic device, and send it in today! You could be richer by the end of the week!

Mobile on my desk top is a good thing. I’m a nimble typer on the traditional QWERTY, there’s no auto-correction, and I won’t lose time switching from device to laptop and back again. If I pick up my iPhone to answer a text or screen a call during the work day, I am almost always sucked in to notifications, WWF plays, and the latest Instagram posts (Huzzah, Photo Collage for stepping up that game!)

According to TechCrunch, Phonedeck users:

“can curate and store all of their phone contacts, manage SMS activity, monitor usage statistics and more from a web browser.

“Phone contacts are uploaded to Phonedeck’s SSL encrypted cloud servers where they can be viewed and edited Facebook-like fashion, with all changes synced to the host phone. SMS can be composed, sent and received remotely, while you can see your most-contacted people, the number of calls and messages sent in a chosen time period. Based on a Freemium model, you get extra features by subscribing.”

The ultimate feature here is Insights. Like most other tech products these days, making a simple service like Phonedeck a little more interesting with visual feedback about YOU can be the difference between mobile greatness and app-suckiness. I can tell you I spend most of my 450 minutes talking to my gabby BF, but isn’t it cooler that I can show you with a nifty graph? I wonder if parents will get hip and use Phonedeck as a monitoring tool for their kids…

Unfortunately, Phonedeck is still only available for Android but the iPhone version will be along soon. Do I need an app to show me how much I text  my sisters? Yes. Yes, I do. Will I sell my iPhone for an Android? Never!

According to Tech Radar’s hands-on review of the new 3rd generation iPad, “there’s no doubt we’re once again looking at the leader in the tablet race.”

I don’t know about you — but the more I see about the new iPad, the less appealing my iPad 2 becomes! Not to worry. MaxBack is still offering a $25 bonus when you sell your tablet. Sell that lackluster tablet and upgrade to the standout in the entire market!

Samsung: you are talking to me.

Smart animals playing with smart technology gets me in a warm fuzzy place. Hmm… this doesn’t say much about humans, does it?

Even Peter knows that when he’s done with his toy, he can sell a tablet to MaxBack.

The new iPad officially hit stores today. Customers lined up at Apple stores around the globe including Tokyo, Paris, London and New York, to snap up the new device. Even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was among the eager customers to get their hands on one.

If you’re waiting to upgrade, don’t forget you can sell your old tablet or cell phone to MaxBack to help pay for the cost of the new iPad.

(Heck — even if you’ve already upgraded — you’re going to need some extra cash for new apps, right?!)

… and they called it “the new iPad”!
::crickets::

Despite the lackluster name, the new iPad does feature some great new features:

• The Retina Display boasts four times the number of pixels compared with the iPad 2 and a million more pixels than an HD TV.
• The power-packed A5X chip with quad-core graphics provides performance and power-efficiency.
• The iSight camera is now 5 megapixels (like the iPhone 4S) and is capable of recording full 1080p HD video.
• Finally, the new iPad is capable of 4G speeds on major networks like AT&T and Verizon.

Along with the release of new hardware, Apple announced iOS 5.1 which brings lots of software enhancements to the iPad platform: a redesigned Camera app with video stabilization, the ability to delete photos from the iCloud Photo Stream, support for dictation in multiple languages, and the ability to use the device as a Personal Hotspot.

Apple released iPhoto for iPhone and iPad, as well as major updates to the mobile app versions of iMovie and Garage Band, bringing the entire iLife and iWork suites to its iOS platform as well.

The new iPad is available for pre-order now and will begin shipping March 16th. Prices start at $499 for the 16 GB wi-fi only model. How are you going to finance your upgrade? We recommend selling your gently used tablet to MaxBack. We pay top-dollar, we pay fast … plus, if you enter the code TABLETMAX25 at checkout you can get a $25 bonus on top of your tablet’s value!

(Limit 1 bonus per person. Tablet’s final inspected value must be $50 or more. Details here.)

Dollar Shave Club is the latest in the toiletries-on-demand space. We all need the basics! And if you are over the age of 16, you are likely shaving something. Founder Michael Dubin may have some competition with the established Manpacks (a favorite service in our IT dept) but Dollar Shave Club definitely raises the bar with a monthly offer.

The guy is cute, sure… but is this the best start-up video ever? Mashable wants to know.

As always, sell your cell phone or gadget to MaxBack for the…Max. Back. If you’re selling your tablet in anticipation of tomorrows iPad HD announcement, sell it to MaxBack and get a $25 bonus when you use the code TABLETMAX25.

Several sources reported earlier this week that the invitations have been sent out for an Apple event on March 7th, and it certainly appears that the iPad will be the focus of the event …

(image via The Loop)

No one knows for sure what features the new iPad will have — we’re not even sure on a name! Will it be the iPad 3? The iPad HD? We’ll know more March 7th!

In the mean time, don’t forget that MaxBack is paying top dollar for your tablet trade-in, whether it’s an old iPad, a Kindle Fire, or other tablet model … and use bonus code TABLETMAX25 to get $25 on top of your trade-in value! (Details here.)