A new hot commodity on eBay: Phones with TikTok installed
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With no way for users to download TikTok, thousands of eBay sellers have listed phones with the app installed — hoping to capitalize on TikTok’s disappearance from US app stores following a brief ban.
With no way for users to download TikTok, thousands of eBay sellers have listed phones with the app installed — hoping to capitalize on TikTok’s disappearance from US app stores following a brief ban. TikTok was pulled from mobile app stores and briefly went dark on Saturday, the evening before the deadline for a federal law banning TikTok in the US unless it was sold to a company based in the US or one of its allies. The app was back for existing users about 12 hours later, after President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order delaying the ban — but it remains missing from app stores. So those who deleted or had never installed TikTok still cannot download the app. With the timeline for TikTok’s app store return unclear, some enterprising individuals are taking advantage: thousands of eBay listings have popped up advertising phones with TikTok installed, as Wired first reported. Many listings are in the range of hundreds to thousands of dollars, although some optimistic sellers are asking for a million or more. Some of these listings are marked sold, like this one for $21,000 — but it’s unlikely the phone sold for anywhere near that price, as sellers can accept offers below the listing. As of midday Thursday, searches for “TikTok phone” garnered more than 27,000 results on eBay. TikTok, eBay, Apple, and Google did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
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