{"id":674,"date":"2010-02-20T12:16:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T06:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/go\/?p=674"},"modified":"2011-01-28T16:55:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T11:25:30","slug":"gazelle-paying-you-for-used-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/gazelle-paying-you-for-used-gadgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazelle &#8211; Paying you for used gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I sometimes spend a lot of my time and blog-space publicizing (often, through criticism) other products, websites, hotels, etc. But sometimes I just want to show respect for\u00a0 great ideas. And nothing excites me more than green initiatives! While going through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gopalshenoy\" target=\"_blank\">Gopal Shenoy<\/a>&#8216;s blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/productmanagementtips.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Product Management tips<\/a>, I got to learn of this cool company called Gazelle he joined. <a href=\"http:\/\/ping.fm\/kYINP\" target=\"_blank\">Gazelle<\/a>, based out of Boston, pays you for taking away used electronics which it recycles. So instead of going to landfills, you&#8217;re gadgets are erased and either re-used or sold in the secondary market. It takes a week after receiving the gadget to complete inspect it and issue the payment. What more could you be asking for with Money in one hand and carbon-credit in the other!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I got too excited and checked what I will get for my 4 year old Nokia 6600! Have a look at the disheartening result!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/gazelle_my_nokia_6600_usd_9.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gazelle will pay me $9 for Nokia 6600\" src=\"http:\/\/prasadgupte.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/gazelle_my_nokia_6600_usd_9.png\" alt=\"Gazelle will pay me $9 for Nokia 6600\" width=\"512\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gazelle will pay me $9 for Nokia 6600<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>PS: No links on this page have referral commissions<\/i> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes spend a lot of my time and blog-space publicizing (often, through criticism) other products, websites, hotels, etc. But sometimes I just want to show respect for\u00a0 great ideas. And nothing excites me more than green initiatives! While going through Gopal Shenoy&#8216;s blog on Product Management tips, I got to learn of this cool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/gazelle-paying-you-for-used-gadgets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gazelle &#8211; Paying you for used gadgets<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,183],"tags":[247,20,244,582,168,246,245,248],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-innovation","tag-electronics","tag-environment","tag-green","tag-linkedin","tag-nokia-6600","tag-re-sale","tag-recycle","tag-waste"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}