| For a number of technology-savvy cellular phone | | | | substantially less painful from a financial standpoint. |
| users, it is important to utilize the most modern smart | | | | In addition to recouping some of their initial investment, |
| phones accessible on the market, as soon as they are | | | | many Blackberry users recognize that more often |
| released. However, while purchasing the latest model | | | | than not, there is nothing wrong with their old |
| Blackberry or other smart phone allows users to fully | | | | Blackberry; therefore tossing it into a desk where it will |
| harness the communications advances made available | | | | sit idly is a waste of a perfectly good phone. This is |
| by cutting-edge technology, the desire to make the | | | | important for two reasons, the first being that many |
| most of these advances comes at an obvious cost: | | | | other consumers are not able to purchase a new |
| the continual investment in new technology. | | | | smart phone, while used Blackberries may well fall |
| Traditionally, consumers who bought new phones | | | | within their budgetary constraints, meaning that these |
| were left with an old phone that was banished to an | | | | phones can be put to good use by used phone |
| obscure drawer in an unassuming corner of the house | | | | brokers. Secondly, phones tossed into a desk will wind |
| where it would collect dust with five or six other used | | | | up being thrown away the next time that desk is |
| cellular phones. In addition to representing a complete | | | | cleaned out. As most people know, discarded cellular |
| loss with regard to the initial investment in what was at | | | | phones release toxins such as heavy metals into the |
| one time a revolutionary cellular phone, this is a | | | | environment, and even recycled cellular phones result |
| wasteful practice, as many phones considered | | | | in the melting of plastics and metals, which also results |
| outdated here are still popular in other parts of the | | | | in toxic air pollution. Consumers who sell Blackberry |
| world. As technology began to advance faster and | | | | smart phones back to the market will avoid these |
| faster, and new phones started to be released more | | | | types of wastefulness, making the decision to sell a |
| regularly, an innovative, yet long overdue solution | | | | Blackberry after use an environmentally sound decision |
| surfaced for many cell phone users: businesses that | | | | as well as an economically smart one. |
| allow users to sell Blackberry smart phones for resale. | | | | By taking five minutes to obtain a quote and send in a |
| While the resale of electronics is far from a new idea, | | | | used smart phone, consumers who decide to sell |
| only recently has it been extended to the realm of | | | | Blackberry smart phones back to the market after |
| cellular phones with buyback programs that allow | | | | their use will decrease the amount that they have to |
| users to sell Blackberry smart phones to used cellular | | | | invest on an upgrade, while at the same time cutting |
| phone brokers. The benefits of such programs seem | | | | down on wastefulness, and potentially saving the |
| obvious, as last year's Blackberries sitting in a desk | | | | environment from more pollution. This is a win-win |
| drawer collecting dusk is simply a waste of money | | | | situation for all; original users get some of their money |
| and technology. Many intelligent consumers have | | | | back, second-hand consumers get a great phone at a |
| already realized that when they sell a Blackberry to a | | | | discounted price, and the environment gets a little less |
| broker, they recoup a good deal of their original | | | | toxicity. |
| investment, making a smart phone upgrade | | | | |