TikTok exists in limbo at the moment. It's not technically shut down. This was due to an extension to find American buyers under the Trump administration, but it is not available in the iPhone or Android app stores due to liability concerns. So if you're looking for a sweet, endless vertical video? But if you don't remember to install the app on your phone before it gets banned, you'll have to try your luck on eBay where people are selling it. Phones with the TikTok app preloaded cost thousands of dollars.
such as First discovered by Wired.There are currently around 9,000 eBay listings for various smartphones with TikTok installed. There are many devices available depending on your phone's brand, model, and carrier. For example, you can grab a Samsung Galaxy A54 5G with TikTok installed. on Consumer Cellular 250 dollars or Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max that supports T-Mobile $450– but for the most part If you want one of the TikTok machines You'll need to be prepared to fork out a lot more than MSRP.
Most entries have at least three zeros at the end. It offers a starting price in the thousands, similar to what the iPhone 14 is currently listed for. $7,500 At the time of publication One person is carrying items in the cart. Many are currently listed for tens of thousands of dollars. Including items whose retail price is 50,000 dollars (Or the best deal, but whatever. You still have to pay shipping, which seems a bit trivial.)
It is worth noting that there are differences between the products listed at these prices and the actual buyers. This is despite the fact that some of the phone lists with TikTok installed have received thousands of views in the past 24 hours. But it still gets more attention than sales. Most of the equipment has already been sold. As shown in the filter eBay's “Completed Sales” shows that sellers often base their decisions on offers. It's not list price, however, and someone has succeeded in taking advantage: There's an iPhone 16 Pro Max listing showing it selling for. $12,999 List price (although the seller has no history on the platform, so it's possible it's a fake sale)
Similar phenomena have happened before. Back when Flappy Bird was all the rage. And finally the creator decided to pull the app for his personal sanity. Phones with games installed also sell on eBay, including one device that sparked a bidding war that resulted in a winning bid of $99,900. In the end, it was killed by eBay. This is because it requires all phones sold on the platform to be wiped and restored to factory settings before being shipped out.
It appeared that eBay still requires a factory reset. For devices sold through the market Hopefully, sellers selling phones with TikTok installed haven't spent any of those proceeds yet.