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With second hand phone tiktok Installed ones are being listed on eBay for thousands of dollars. And it appears that some people might actually buy them.
Although US President Donald Trump has signed one Executive order on Monday Delaying a potential ban on the social media app for 75 days, TikTok remains absent from all US app stores — Apple and Google have given no indication whether it will return. That means if you’re in the US and delete the app or lose your phone, you’re currently locked out, and there’s no way to download it. For content creators, brand marketers and social media managers, this can spell disaster. And an expensive one at that.
Opportunistic eBayers have taken the opportunity to cash in on this misfortune. A quick search for “TikTok phone” brings up over 9,000 listings in use Smartphone From the likes of Apple and Samsung, all TikTok apps come pre-installed.
This is possible by having the seller sign out of the iCloud or Google account associated with the device instead of wiping the phone to factory settings. Any buyer would then need to be careful not to sync with existing cloud backups, to avoid losing the app they paid so much for.
Some of these phones are listed for as many $50,000 It’s under eBay’s Buy It Now selling format, but it’s hard to believe that anyone really thought their phone would sell for that—and there’s no sign that they have.
There are many more listed in the $2,000 to $5,000 range, but whether anyone is actually buying them at these prices, it still seems unlikely.
What can be said, despite the inflated prices, there is Interest these phones is Sales, but exactly how much is difficult to confirm. Select the “sold” filter on eBay’s search and there are plenty of sales that appear to be completed, but almost all have an undisclosed “best offer accepted” note attached.
Any completed auctions with incredibly inflated prices seem to have been relisted too soon, suggesting an unsuccessful sale, only close to the market value of the secondhand phones that actually wanted to be sold.
A quick look at currently ongoing auctions may show a much more reasonable price than an initial search.
The actual impact of any TikTok premium is somewhat unclear, but that’s not stopping people from trying. At the time of writing this article, results for the TikTok phone search term had grown by more than 2,000 items – no doubt a sense of urgency given the fact that the app could be returned to the app stores at any time.
Right now, a TikTok search on any app store is met with statements from Google and Apple citing legal requirements as the reason the app isn’t available on their stores. This is despite Trump’s executive order expressly directing the Justice Department to “take no action to enforce the Act or impose any penalty against any entity for any noncompliance with the Act”.
It remains to be seen whether TikTok reappears before the 75-day mark — as Trump makes any deal in the meantime — but deportees are not entirely without options. this week, Thousands of users Another Chinese-owned social media platform, RedNote, has jumped in, leaving the app scrambling Appoint an English moderator.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is making some effort to take lost TikTokers under its wing, introducing a A flurry of new familiar features And even bigger influential offers $5,000 to join Its platform.
