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Unopened Original iPhone Sells for $35,000 at Auction
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Cover flow was nice, but looking at that screenshot, I’d rather get Amy Winehouse back.
I recently paired my 2006 iPod Mini to my M1 iMac after replacing the battery. Wouldn't you know it? The iMac still recognises my iPod and has all the functions needed to sync it.
As for your 'why bother' statement, your lack of understanding of the nature of collecting is about the same as your understanding of the current Mac OS's syncing ability. Not everything is about the experience of playing with a device. If anything, that experience is an Android thing where you get to tinker all day impractically, otherwise the 'experience' factor of something gets in the way of the usability and loses novelty in about a day.
As a collector of many things myself, the tinker factor and usability factor is not what you are paying for. It is far more personal.
So why didn’t you just take your iPod and gave the money back?Good thing they didn't sell it on eBay. I sold a 20 year old first-gen 5GB iPod in the box (used, not sealed) on eBay, and 20 days after receiving the item the buyer complained it no longer worked. Of course it was sold in as-is condition, with no guarantees.
But guess what? eBay declares sellers have to guarantee everything they sell. So nearly 3 weeks after receiving a 20 year old iPod, the buyer can decide they're not happy and insist on a full refund.
eBay provided the refund, and immediately tried to debit my accounts, which I preemptively removed from my eBay account. After over 20 years on eBay and 700+ feedback, I no longer have an active account, I have a collection agency chasing me for USD$650 (LOL good luck, I'm self employed and could care less about my credit rating) all because of a 0 feedback buyer who bought a used iPod with no guarantees and their reason for a refund was it no longer worked.
Not that it wasn't in the condition described or didn't come with the accessories listed in the auction - that it 'stopped working'. Inferring that it worked upon receipt and now it doesn't anymore.
Rant over - articles like this trigger me. Long story short, I'm glad someone profited big time on a sealed gen 1 iPhone, and F eBay.
I lived in Nicaragua and the first time I remember seeing an iPhone down there was in March 2009 and I loved how it looked like. Too bad I didn't know the person well enough to play around with it
I think that the IT guy that sits across from me has a few iPhone 5's and maybe 6's that are still sealed, Got them for employee's and then they left....or never open-end them as they chose to use their "personal communicator device"
in brand-new condition… with a dead battery. I have an iPad 1 like that. Can’t find a replacement.
A sealed original iPhone made from an early production run has sold for $35,000 in a recent auction.
Based on the box design, this iPhone was among the initial batch of original iPhone models sold in the first few months after the iPhone launched in June 2007, as the Home Screen does not include an iTunes Store icon. The iTunes Store app was initially not included on the iPhone and wasn't added until a few months later with the release of iPhone OS 1.1 in September 2007. The iPhone box design was subsequently updated to add the icon.
The listing doesn't offer any clues on the condition of the actual iPhone inside the box, but given it's still sealed, it should be in brand-new condition.
Article Link: Unopened Original iPhone Sells for $35,000 at Auction
I think there’s more too it than this.Good thing they didn't sell it on eBay. I sold a 20 year old first-gen 5GB iPod in the box (used, not sealed) on eBay, and 20 days after receiving the item the buyer complained it no longer worked. Of course it was sold in as-is condition, with no guarantees.
But guess what? eBay declares sellers have to guarantee everything they sell. So nearly 3 weeks after receiving a 20 year old iPod, the buyer can decide they're not happy and insist on a full refund.
eBay provided the refund, and immediately tried to debit my accounts, which I preemptively removed from my eBay account. After over 20 years on eBay and 700+ feedback, I no longer have an active account, I have a collection agency chasing me for USD$650 (LOL good luck, I'm self employed and could care less about my credit rating) all because of a 0 feedback buyer who bought a used iPod with no guarantees and their reason for a refund was it no longer worked.
Not that it wasn't in the condition described or didn't come with the accessories listed in the auction - that it 'stopped working'. Inferring that it worked upon receipt and now it doesn't anymore.
Rant over - articles like this trigger me
Why would eBay force sellers to guarantee items, when you can select the conditions as “for parts / not working”?
You both wasted money and … actually …. wasted money… until you open it up and the probabilities collapse to reveal… you wasted money!!!
This is just coincidence, but…
The Day 1 (June 29, 2007) price of the iPhone 8GB was $799. If you would have bought $799 worth of Apple stock on that same day it would be worth approximately $35,134 today.
The Day 1 (June 29, 2007) price of the iPhone 8GB was $799. If you would have bought $799 worth of Apple stock on that same day it would be worth approximately $35,134 today.
Way ahead? It was a 2G 'smart' phone in 2007. It was just an iPod touch with a 2G cellular chip. 3G networks were available in Japan since 1998 and wide spread in Korea in 2002. LG offered touch-screen phones at least 3 years before the iPhone.
The iPhone difference was the iOS software, and that couldn't really do anything we think of an iPhone being capable of on a 2G network. If anything, you should be asking 'what took them so long'?
Schödingers Phone! It is both inside and not inside that sealed box! It’s both dead and working…
Garbage. Not really a collectible thing, is it????.
Nothing truly special like a “signed iPhone” or anything, just old, unusable. tech in its box. Looked nice?, nostalgia?. Ok. But not really a cent more than when it came out.
It is not a Rolex!
Nothing truly special like a “signed iPhone” or anything, just old, unusable. tech in its box. Looked nice?, nostalgia?. Ok. But not really a cent more than when it came out.
It is not a Rolex!
Haha. It's like baseball cards from the 1950s: If everyone had kept theirs, they'd be worth a lot less.