(NEXSTAR) – TikTok is not out there within the App Retailer as of Thursday, nevertheless there’s nonetheless a approach to get again on the platform – for a value.
EBay sellers are hoping to money in on the TikTok crackdown, itemizing telephones with the embattled social app already put in for tens of 1000’s of {dollars}.
One vendor listed an iPhone 8 Plus “with TikTok” for $1,200. Almost a dozen folks had added the telephone – which was first launched in 2017 – to their watchlist by Thursday afternoon.
For TikTok customers keen to pay up for a more moderen mannequin telephone, itemizing costs have been as excessive as $50,000, together with one for a iPhone 16 Professional Max with a terabyte of storage.
Trump indicators order to maintain TikTok open for 75 days to search out US purchaser
Regardless of an extended record of “watchers” apparently desirous about iPhones listed for 1000’s of {dollars}, it isn’t clear simply how most of the high-dollar TikTok-enabled gadgets are promoting. One iPhone 15 “with TikTok” offered Thursday for simply $465 after an 85-bid contest.
TikTok, which confronted a ban within the U.S. if mum or dad firm ByteDance did not comply with promote to an accredited purchaser, acquired a reprieve when President Trump took workplace.
In an govt order Trump signed Monday, the president instructed the Justice Division to face down and chorus from implementing the ban for 75 days.
Within the order Trump stated he hoped the ready interval would give his administration time to chart “the appropriate course forward in an orderly way that protects national security while avoiding an abrupt shutdown” of the favored app.
