Looking to cash in on your old or unused electronics but don’t feel like hassling with flaky Craigslist buyers? Web site Gazelle purchases your old electronics and pays you now.
Gazelle bases their purchase price on the condition of your gear and the market value of the device. If you decide to sell your gadget to Gazelle, they'll even pay the shipping required to get the gear to their doorstep. The catch to using Gazelle: You pay for the convenience. For example, I could sell my first-generation, 8GB iPod touch to Gazelle for a meager $59. I could easily ask for more on Craigslist, but—like I said—you're paying a significant convenience tax.
Before you go taking that hit (after all, every penny counts these days), get to know how to successfully sell items on Craigslist. If you’d still prefer a more convenient method of ridding yourself of old gear, Gazelle is still a good option. The concept may sound very familiar, since we actually featured Gazelle once in the past, back when it was called Second Rotation. Likewise, HP just started a program that pays for your old tech. Still, we’re partial to breathing new life into old gadgets rather than getting rid of them. Thanks Jill!
In my locale we’re currently knee deep in powdery snow and spring seems mighty far away. Over at the financial blog Get Rich Slowly they are furiously planning out a bountiful urban vegetable garden. 
Hewlett-Packard launches a new buyback program that will give you money in exchange for your old, working gadgets and gear—any brand of PC, monitor, printer, digital camera, or smartphone that still has some value.