eCycling 'ATM' Arrives at the Mall
A new machine at the mall pays money for used cell phone and other electronic devices.
An "ATM" that pays cash for used cell phones and other electronics has come to Liberty Tree Mall. The machine is located in the food court and is one of 300 machines nationally and 11 in Massachusetts from a company called ecoATM. A customer insert an used electronic device into the machine and an employee looks at it and comes up with a price that is paid. "Someone in real time is looking at each transaction," manager Andrew Spaventa told the Board of Selectmen last month and he sought permission to install the machine. It is now in place across from Marshall's. The ecoATM employee that looks at each item is in San Diego. The employee also verifies that the person selling the device looks like the ID they have presented. Both the …
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