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Second hand phones TikTok built-in units sell for thousands of dollars on eBay. And it seems some people are actually buying them.
Despite US President Donald Trump’s signature executive order Monday TikTok is out of all U.S. app stores, delaying any potential ban on the social media app by 75 days — with Apple and Google giving no indication whether it will return. This means that if you’re in America and you delete the app or lose your phone, there’s currently no way to re-download it. For content creators, brand marketers and social media managers, this can spell disaster. And the expensive one.
Opportunistic eBayers took the chance to cash in on this misfortune. A quick search for “TikTok phone” brings up over 9,000 used listings smartphones From companies like Apple and Samsung, all with the TikTok app already installed.
This is possible when the seller signs out of the iCloud or Google account associated with the device instead of factory wiping the phone. Any buyer should be careful not to sync to any existing cloud backup lest they lose the software they paid so much to acquire.
Some of these phones are listed for as much 50,000 dollars Under eBay’s Buy It Now sales format, however, it’s hard to believe that anyone could actually think their phone would sell for that – and there’s no indication that they have.
There are many more listed in the $2,000-$5,000 range, but as to whether anyone actually buys them for that price, it still seems unlikely.
What can be said, despite the inflated prices, there does interest These phones there is for sale, but it is difficult to determine exactly how much. Select the “sold” filter on eBay’s search and many sales appear to have ended, but almost all have an undisclosed “best offer accepted” note.
Auctions that ended at incredibly inflated prices seem to be re-listed shortly after, suggesting a failed sale, with only those close to market value for used phones actually sold.
A quick look at current auctions shows more reasonable prices than an initial search might suggest.
The true impact of any TikTok rewards is somewhat unclear, but that doesn’t stop people from trying. Results for the phone search term TikTok have grown to more than 2,000 items at the time of writing – no doubt a sense of urgency that the app could return to the app stores at any time.
Currently, a search for TikTok in both app stores is met with statements from Google and Apple citing legal requirements as the reason the app is not available in 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 failure to comply with the Act.”
Whether or not TikTok will reappear before 75 days remains to be seen, as will any deal Trump cuts in the meantime, but the exiles aren’t completely without options. this week, thousands of users Another Chinese-owned social media platform, RedNote, flocked and hacked the app Hiring English moderators.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is also doing its best to take lost TikTokers under its wing. a flurry of new familiar features and offers even up to major influencers $5000 to join its platforms.
