An Internet auction of a iPhone original blew up all the meters recently!
The iPhone was launched 16 years ago by Apple, through a presentation conference led by Steve Jobs that has since remained in legend. Proof of the historicity of this moment, a device from this range has just been sold at a crazy price in the United States!
An auction
When you buy a new smartphone, you tend to sell your old device to reduce costs. 15 years ago, some did not follow this example and kept their very first iPhone, out of nostalgia, forgetfulness, or perhaps already out of a spirit of speculation. And for those who were driven by that last sentiment, there is clearly money in hand today.
Because the stories of exceptional sales of the very first iPhone are multiplying lately. Last winter, one of these phones was bought for more than $60,000 at an auction on the LCG Auctions site. A crazy price that has just been exploded by a new transaction!
$190,000 for a smartphone
As you can see on the screenshot above, this time the iPhone, which remained in a blister pack, went for the exact sum of 190,372.80 dollars! An amount that is all the more impressive given that the initial bet had been $10,000, for the launch of the auction on June 30.
During the first two weeks, proposals fluctuated between 50 and 100,000 dollars. Already high prices that were not ready for the last day of the auction, where the offers were then packed, until reaching the record bet we were talking about above.
Quite paradoxically, this is a basic iPhone, with 4 GB of memory. Which is nevertheless considered the most desirable, as LCG Auctions reminds us: “ The original 4GB model is considered the “holy grail” by iPhone collectors. Its extreme rarity is directly linked to its limited production. »
Source : GSMArena
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