SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8, 2012 -- ecoATM, the award-winning San
Diego start-up known for its innovative kiosks that fully
automate the buy-back of used mobile phones and other
portable electronics, announced today it has made its first
major expansion outside of California by installing 28
kiosks in malls throughout Texas. (Specific locations
information for kiosks can be found at
http://ecoatm.com/find-a-location.html.)

The network of ecoATM kiosks will next expand to other parts
of the Southeast, East Coast, and Midwest later this year.

The ecoATM kiosk network has been limited primarily to
California until recently, but has already paid out millions
of dollars to hundreds of thousands of customers for their
old electronics and in the process saved our landfills from
hundreds of thousands of potentially toxic electronic
devices. ecoATM finds second homes for three-fourths of the
collected devices and responsibly recycles the rest to
reclaim the rare earth metals.

"It is exciting to take the first big step in expanding
ecoATM's footprint," said Tom Tullie, Chairman and CEO of
ecoATM. "Over the past three years of testing the kiosks in
California, ecoATM has seen tremendous consumer response,
because we have created a kiosk that has two important
features: it offers instant cash payment just like an ATM,
and it is convenient and easy to use. No other buy-back or
recycling systems have achieved this."

As part of the expansion into Texas, ecoATM is making a
10/100/1M Guarantee for this new network of kiosks in Texas:

10 = $10,000 that ecoATM guarantees they will collect for
charities in Texas over the next 12 months. If they don't,
they will donate the balance to the Boys and Girls Club of
America.

100 = 100,000 used devices will be collected by ecoATM in
Texas over the next year thereby sparing Texan landfills
many tons of toxic eWaste. If they don't, ecoATM will pay to
plant a tree for every device short of the 100,000 mark
through Trees for the Future, an organization in Haiti that
employs local residents to plant sapling trees in deforested
areas of their communities in Haiti.

1M = $1,000,000 will be paid out from ecoATM to Texas
customers over the next year. If they don't, they will
double the dollar amount the kiosk network in Texas has
collected for local charities during the same period.

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About ecoATM

Based in San Diego, Calif., ecoATM (http://www.ecoatm.com)
is the first company to create an automated self-serve kiosk
system that uses patented, advanced machine vision,
electronic diagnostics, and artificial intelligence to
evaluate and buy back used electronics directly from
consumers for cash or store credit. ecoATM's eCycling
stations provide a convenient trade-in solution that:
-- electronically and/or visually inspects virtually any
consumer electronic device;
-- connects consumers real-time to broad worldwide secondary
markets ensuring best pricing; and
-- pays consumers immediately in cash.

ecoATM holds both Responsible Recycling (R2) and ISO14001
certification, confirming the company's commitment to
maintaining the highest standards of electronics recycling.
See http://www.ecoatm.com/how-it-works.html for a video of
how an ecoATM kiosk works.