Garage sales often have many items – as well as other used sales, and as they say – one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Someone else’s trash might include a mobile phone. They are generally really keen to part with them for whatever reason, and will let it go cheap and therefore you can get a mobile phone for a fraction of the price that you are able to obtain the phone for through a retail outlet.

Online sites like Kijiji or Ebay are great for finding cheap things. Mobile phones are a dime a dozen on there, but be careful because some require you take over a contract. You don’t want to get involved in a situation like that because there are good reasons they are selling their phones.

Another place that you can find cheap mobile phones is at the local pawn shop. When people need cash, they sell anything there, including mobile phones. Depending on the place, you can generally haggle with them to lower the cost if you still find it too pricey. A lot of the mobile phones there are relatively inexpensive, especially when a contract is used within the phone.