After the temporary ban on TikTok in the US, various iPhone models with the Chinese app pre-installed have started to be sold on eBay. In some cases, the price reaches $46,000.
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TikTok is very popular in the US and has about 170 million users. 14 hours after the shutdown, TikTok became available again in the US. However, the application is still not available in the App Store and Google Play.
In this regard, enterprising Americans began selling used iPhones with TikTok pre-installed on eBay for prices ranging from $9,000 to $46,000, which is dozens of times higher than the cost of new Apple smartphones.
For example, the iPhone 13 Pro Max with the TikTok application, which was initially put up for auction, was offered for $3.5 thousand, but buyers during the auction offered $8 thousand for it as of January 22.
On the day of the blocking, an unknown person put up for sale an old and used iPhone 6s for $1 million. It was found that users of older models with older versions of iOS did not encounter regional restrictions, which is why the application continued to work despite the short-term blocking.