alt Hacker News> Meanwhile, Samsung's own recycling numbers tell a different story. Its old phone collection campaign, running since 2015, had collected just 38,000 phones as of May 2019. Samsung had sold 2 billion Galaxy devices by February 2019.
Well... duh? Their program offers far less money for the old phone than selling it used on ebay. Why would anyone use it?
> Their program offers far less money for the old phone than selling it used on ebay. Why would anyone use it?
It sets the price floor and provides liquidity, so the phone doesn’t go into a trash bin instead.