Our phone-buying team works from a counter inside Cash Generator on Church Street — every device is graded face-to-face, with the offer broken down before you decide.
Visit PhonesForCash in St Helens
PhonesForCash operates from inside Cash Generator at 41 Church Street in St Helens town centre. Walk-ins are welcome and no appointment is needed — payment is by cash or bank transfer once you accept an offer.
PhonesForCash at Cash Generator St Helens
41 Church Street, St Helens, WA10 1AX
- Opening Hours: Mon–Sat 9:30am–5:30pm · Sun 10:00am–4:00pm
- Phone: 01744 775978
- Email: sthelens@cashgenerator.co.uk
- Finding us
- Look for the Cash Generator storefront on Church Street. PhonesForCash operates inside.
- Getting here
- Approximately two minutes' walk from St Helens Bus Station and around eight minutes' walk from St Helens Central.
- Parking
- Convenient town-centre parking is available at Tontine Multi-Storey Car Park, with additional public parking around Chalon Way and the Hardshaw Centre. Parking availability and charges may change, so check local signage before leaving your vehicle.
Inside Our St Helens Store
Our Store Exterior
Phone Buying Counter
Product Displays
The different levels of screen damage
Not all cracked screens are equal. A hairline crack on the glass with the OLED working perfectly is a very different conversation to a screen with black blotches, green lines or no touch response.
- Glass-only cracks with full touch and image
- Cracks with localised dead spots or touch issues
- OLED bleeding — black, green or pink patches
- Vertical or horizontal lines on the display
- Completely black or unresponsive panel
- Cracks that have damaged Face ID dot projector
Why the OLED matters more than the glass
On modern iPhones the glass and the OLED are bonded together, so a screen replacement always replaces both. What we're really pricing is the rest of the phone — the battery, cameras, frame, board and Face ID.
If Face ID has been damaged in the same impact that broke the screen, the offer drops further because Face ID is paired to the original sensors and can't be fully restored with a screen swap alone.
Is it still worth selling?
For modern iPhones (12 and newer), almost always yes — the parts value alone makes them worth bringing in. For older devices the gap between repair cost and resale value can mean the offer is small. We're happy to look either way.