{"id":69440,"date":"2023-07-18T06:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T05:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/pc\/someone-bought-a-16-year-old-iphone-for-over-190000\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T06:31:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T05:31:47","slug":"someone-bought-a-16-year-old-iphone-for-over-190000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=69440","title":{"rendered":"Someone Bought A 16-Year-Old iPhone For Over $190,000"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hey, quick question: If you had a spare $200,000 laying around in your bank account, what would you spend it on? You\u2019d probably spend it on a house, or maybe a new car (several new cars?). What you probably wouldn\u2019t do is drop that kind of cash on a 16-year-old iPhone. But that\u2019s what happened over the weekend. <\/p>\n

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The original iPhone was released all the way back in June 2007<\/span>. At the time, Apple released two versions of what would become its most successful product ever: a 4GB storage model that cost $499 and an 8GB model that cost $599. And it\u2019s that 4GB model that has become a bit of a collector\u2019s item. This is because back in 2007 the 4GB version sold more slowly than its 8GB counterpart. Most people just paid the extra $100 to double the phone\u2019s storage, and as a result, Apple discontinued the 4GB version just two months after its release, in September 2007. So there weren\u2019t nearly as many of them out in the wild, and even fewer remained sealed in their boxes. That (sort of) explains why a sealed, mint condition iPhone 4GB from 2007 just sold at auction for $190,372.80.<\/p>\n

As reported by TweakTown<\/em><\/span> on July 16, the supposedly very rare iPhone 4GB was sold to an unknown buyer on LCGAuctions.com for nearly $200k<\/span>.<\/p>\n

LCG Auctions\u2019 item description suggests that the old Apple phone is the \u201cHoly Grail\u201d among phone collectors. The phone up for auction was still factory sealed in its original box, and apparently in \u201cexceptional condition.\u201d LCGAuctions claimed the consignor was part of the original engineering team at Apple during the iPhone launch, possibly explaining how they got their hands on such a rare device and why they never opened it.<\/p>\n

Other iPhones have sold for similarly high prices<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This isn\u2019t the first iPhone to sell for a large sum of money at auction. LCGAuctions cites a few other Apple devices that have, over the preceding nine months, sold for hard-to-believe prices, including two factory-sealed 8GB iPhones from the same era. One sold in October of last year for $39,339<\/span>, and another hit $63,356 this past February<\/span>. And yet another one of these old, original, and still-sealed iPhones sold this year for $40,000<\/span>, bought (and opened) by YouTuber Marques Brownlee.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n