For about $ 1,000, you can leave an Apple store a completely new, harmatically sealed iPhone that has been personalized for you by a verified genius.
Or, for hundreds or even thousands of dollars, you can buy a used phone from someone on the Internet with a screw screen and dirt-filled speakers.
It all depends on how much you love Tick.
If the video sharing app work in the United States stopped working in the United States after Saturday evening Supreme Court A law supports that effectively banned the app, some users have deleted the app from their phone. The next day, when the app started working again when President Trump said he was doing a plan Executive order To give a break in law enforcement. But, until Thursday, Apple and Google, who removed TikTok from their App Store to comply with the law, have not made it available to download it again.
Due to uncertainty over whether the app will return to the app stores, some people who have never removed the app like a golden ticket to see the phone, who miss thumbing through Tiktok’s algorithm or follow them which they cannot reach after hurry. The app has been removed.
How many people had deleted tiktok and it was not immediately clear whether it would return to the App Store. However, people like Queens 37 -year -old Potter Gustab are seeing the opportunity in uncertainty.
An Information Technology Engineer, Mr Gustab, has been downloaded with his iPhone 15 Pro Ticktock with Tiktok on the Facebook Marketplace with $ 3,000. This is about three times the price of a brand-new iPhone 16 Pro. Thursday night, he had a $ 1,200 offer, which is still more than every brand-new iPhone and almost twice as much Reform IPhone 15 Pro without tiktok.
“This will be a good deal for me because I can get a few hundred dollars in it,” Mr Gustab said. If he did not get a good offer soon he would drop his question to $ 2,000, he said.
“Unlocked with tickk and capcut,” an advertisement Dress Fall ($ 3,500). “IPhone 14 Pro Unlocked! W/ tiktok, ”a list EBay By calling ($ 3,000). In the Facebook Marketplace, vendors include screen recording on their list to verify whether TikTok is installed on the phone.
“This TikTok app is very valuable, brother,” Ezel Maloy, 20, a car salesman and New London, bride’s twitch streamer. He said that he was offered $ 5,700 for his iPhone with a tiktak through a Facebook marketplace.
Probably asked for iPhone list $30,000 Not realistic. (Trait’n Keniston, 20, Newport News, Va., Tiktok posted his phone for this amount but said that he was not sure the five-point bid he got is real.) Even the users are the most serious TikTok withdrawal. Going is going to buy a used phone for a 2025 price. Toyota Priyas.
But if you consider spending some extra money for a TikTok phone, Freddy Train Nagar, Associate Director of the Digital Social Media Program at Southern California, think that this is a really bad idea.
“Buying a phone that has not been deleted is a very risky behavior,” Mr Nagar says, referring to a standard reset process, which will not happen on the phone. These phones, Mr Nagar, warned, “Spyware and other viruses can include that really endanger your privacy.”
There are safe options. Tiktok is still accessible in the web browser, and Some users Reddit says they have found a solution to download the app. Even on the phone without a virus or malware, the uncertain future of Tiktok makes it difficult for Mr. Nagar to see the value of these phones. If the ticket has a long -term future, it will be downloadable again, he thinks.
The absence of TikTok from the App Store can sound known. “The western world has fallen into chaos” New York Times In 2014, when the flapi bird, a addictive game where users guided a small bird through a barrier course, were removed from the App Store. Including the app downloaded phone Was listed For astronomy prices.
Mr. Nager says Tiktak is different. Some applications like the game can work perfectly regardless of the ownership of the company.
“Tiktok app is only a gateway to access a website or a platform,” said Mr Nagar. If Tiktok becomes dark again, the app is “just an art.”
But the art like beauty is also seen by the viewer. To someone, Apostate And pop-culture mems can be worth a few months of rent.
