to target, walmart, best buys, all of them have electronic trade-in programs. at best buy they just launched a trade-in plus where they re giving you a $50 gift card on top of the trade-in value for your cell phone. and a lot of these stores, target and best buy, will give you a gift card. and if you ship it in, they ll even prepay the shipping label for you. let s say father jonathan s still watching and we choose to donate it, steve. what could we do? to the father? to other people. as we re wrapping up the end of the year, you might be looking for extra tax deductions, donating your old cell phones is a great cause. hope phones is a campaign launched by medic mobile which is looking to increase medical help across the globe. there s also cell phones for soldiers which is an organization looking to provide communication tools to active-duty military and veterans. and they may even give you cash for those donations. we love that. if you d like more information, is there one
toyota, realize that your resale value now is down about 10% on this news alone. don? ooh. okay, then, you know all the incentive offers to trade in your toyota, what about that? are they worth it? well, they re coming in the mail right now. ford, gm, hyundai, offering trade-in incentives to current owners of toyota vehicles. ford offering 1,000 bucks to owners of toyotas that are 1995 or newer. gm offering drivers up to $1,000 in lease payments if they end their toyota lease and turn to gm. and hunyundai is offering 1,000 bucks to toyota owners. the dealers claim they ll give you the fair price of the trade-in plus $1,000, but what often happens is the fair price is lowered by the amount they re giving you, trading in any scar is tough, and it s very easy to be drawn into a cycle of negotiation. bottom line, don t get caught up in the hype, get as many numbers