How to get out of your cell phone contract

I could have saved myself the $175 i paid to formerly AT&T Wireless when i decided to get out of my 1-year cell phone contract if i had known about the transfer of responsibility. According to this article at MSNBC, it is possible to transfer your remaining cell phone plan to a third party. The idea is that you offer the potential buyer your phone and/or other accessories (it can potentially be anything) to sweeten up the deal so that the buyer will take over the remaining portion of your contract without paying any activation fee. The article mentioned a company celltradeusa.com that basically allows you to place free ads for a potential stranger to pick up your remaining contract. The thing is celltradeusa.com charges you $19.99 to read the email communication between the seller and the buyer. I doubt this is going to work well for celltradeusa.com. I can see this being easily done for free on Craig’s List.