Photography Iowa City

Can I get a replacement USED phone with Verizon for cheap?
Long story short, I just moved to Milwaukee from Iowa to start up my photography business in a bigger city. I moved up here less than a month ago and my apartment was robbed, everything, gone. Including my cell phone, and the money I had saved to live up here on until I got photography clients....say what you want, but you can't make this up. I need a phone to replace the one I had, I use my phone for all of my photography networking via email and internet. Is there a way Verizon will let me buy a used phone for a cheaper rate? I see on their sites Droids are like $149 used but thats with a 2 yr contract. Its not time for my account to get a new phone but could I still get that price? Or is there anything they could do for me? I don't have a lot of money because of what happened, but I need something to keep my business going. Any advice would be amazing.
umm it all depends if you can get an upgrade or not if you can than you could probably get a blackberry or or some other smartphone for pretty cheap if not that than sorry to tell ya dude your gona have to find some more customers or else your screwed
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