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TikTok exists in a sort of limbo at the moment, technically not shut down because it got an extension to find an American buyer under the Trump administration, but not available on the iPhone or Android app stores due to liability concerns. So if you’ve been dying for that sweet, sweet infinite scroll of vertical video but didn’t think to install the app on your phone before the soft ban, you’ll have to try your luck on eBay, where people are selling pre-installed TikTok apps for thousands of dollars. -Loaded phone.
as First seen by WiredThere are currently around 9,000 eBay item listings for various smartphones with TikTok installed. There is a wide array of devices depending on the make, model and carrier of your phone choice. For example, you can get a TikTok-equipped Samsung Galaxy A54 5G at Consumer Cellular $250 Or for a T-Mobile-compatible Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max $450. But in most cases, if you want one of these TikTok machines, you should be prepared to shell out a lot more than the MSRP.
Most listings have at least three zeroes at the end, with prices starting in the thousands—like this iPhone 14 currently listed $7,500 Also, at the time of publication, a person is currently holding the item in their cart. There are currently several listings with asking prices in the hundreds of thousands of dollars $50,000 (Or the best offer, but either way, you still have to pay shipping which seems a bit paltry).
It is worth noting that there is a difference between the items listed at these prices and people actually buying them. While some listings for phones with TikTok installed have thousands of views in the past 24 hours, there’s much more attention than sales. The majority of devices that have sold, shown by eBay’s “complete sale” filter, show that sellers often settle for an offer and not the list price. However, some people have successfully cashed in on the opportunism: there’s a listing for an iPhone 16 Pro Max that shows it’s sold. $12,999 List price (although the seller has zero history on the platform so it could be a fake sale).
Such incidents have happened before. While Flappy Bird was all the rage and the creator ultimately decided to pull the app for his own personal ingenuity, the phones on which the game was sold on eBay, too, created a bidding war that resulted in a $99,900 winning bid. That’s the sale Finally killed by eBay Because all phones sold on its platform must be wiped and restored to factory settings before shipping out
It appears that Ebay still requires factory reset As for devices sold through its marketplace, so hopefully, sellers who sold a phone with TikTok installed still haven’t spent those earnings.
