BuyMyTronics.com was an electronics resale business in

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, founded in 2007 as BuyMyBrokeniPod.com. Its

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was to purchase used and broken cell phones, iPods, iPhones,

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, pdas,

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, Apple laptops, and other electronics that have been replaced by newer models. BuyMyTronics.com was operated by Brett Mosley. In his first year, he hired two employees, fixed 1,000

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s, and branched out into fixing his first dozen iPhones and game consoles. Fixed models were resold online, and other models were scrapped for their parts; Mosley stated that this was both profitable and productive toward

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mitigation. His company repaired, resold, or stripped hundreds items of electronic waste per week, including cell phones, iPods, iPhones, game consoles, PDAs, Apple

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s, and MP3 players, and offered free shipping. In 2013, BuyMyTronics was purchased and became part of the GameStop Network.

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