There are a lot of healthy reasons to purchasing a used cell phone. Let's discuss about convenience first. Purchasing a pre owned cell phone will keep you from hassles and sickening formalities of signing a contract with phone network companies. Most of us have been there and there's no prize for the discomforting feeling of having to read again all those pages of warranties and rules just because your phone was lost or stolen. Activating pre owned cell phones only takes just minutes and can be done right at the comfort of your own sofa.

Let us say that you are a subscriber to Cingular, T-Mobile, or ATT, simply remove your SIM card from underneath your cell phone battery (in most cases, this is where you will find the SIM), and re-insert it into your newly bought pre owned cell phone, and then the problem's fixed! Yes, you heard it right, there's no need to worry much over losing a phone because the solution is as easy as simply going down to your local cell phone providers' place of business and asking them for a new SIM card. For Verizon, Metro PCS, and the like, where SIM card is of no use, you only have to dial *611 on your newly acquired pre owned cell phone, and a customer representative from your local phone provider will provision your phone with your existing account over the air.

How about the one closest to you pocket, practicality? The financial difficulty in purchasing a new cell phone (indeed, new ones can be very expensive!) is moot and academic topic considering that you can always have a pre owned cell phone from the neighboring shops. You will save considerable amount of money with used cell phone than if you buy a new one. Plus, the great thing is, pre owned cell phone works just as well. Pre-owned phones are usually refurbished phones so it's guaranteed that their utility and quality is still at par with new ones. Why waste great amount of money for a same thing and of same value? Buy the savings instead for other much important goods. Phones, notwithstanding what others say, still remain a luxury so you need to be smart and perceptive on the amount of money you spend with them.

Above, I already talked about two huge reasons (convenience and practicality) and they basically cover everything why you should buy a pre owned cell phone, but they are too concentrated on what's good for you. I have to kick one in that's for the whole community: purchasing used cell phones will do something good for the environment. Cell phones are made up of various toxic chemicals, including lead and mercury. Over time, these harmful chemicals will leak out, and once in the ground, will eventually enter our water system. That only spells a bad future for us, a horrible future for our children. It's even sadder to note that many, if not most of these discarded phones, are far from being useless.

So save the tears if you just lost a phone, you have a way smart option with used ones. Save the tears for rainy days, not worth it over phones.