Coming from abroad with many Mobile Phones - Any customs procedure?

jumperabv3

I'm intending to fly back to the UK in about 2 months and I am going to bring with me lots of mobile phones which I want to recycle in the UK.

I cannot recycle these mobile phones where I am unless if I will get really cheap and bad price for these, and many UK companies offering 3-4 times what I will get here, so I would like to bring these mobile phones into the UK and recycle them with one or more of those companies recycling mobiles.

My question is if there is anything I need to do in terms of customs in the airport? Is there anything that I need to prepare or do before I am taking that flight?

By the way I am flying through Italy ... so would that be a problem then or Italy would be the first and only point of contact in terms of customs? I really don't know what to do any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance...

macman

So how many is 'many'? Six? Sixty? If they're clearly old phones then customs will probably not be interested unless they think the phones are indicative of something more sinister.
If you transfer airside in Italy only then you won't pass though Italian customs. If you don't then you will have to clear Italian customs.

jumperabv3

macman wrote: »

So how many is 'many'? Six? Sixty? If they're clearly old phones then customs will probably not be interested unless they think the phones are indicative of something more sinister.
If you transfer airside in Italy only then you won't pass though Italian customs. If you don't then you will have to clear Italian customs.

It's around 100 devices, yes ...
Most of them are Nokia E72 ... (70% of them approx)

Do you see any problem with that? (with either UK or Italian customs)

jumperabv3

Anyone has other answers?