I'm sure I've seen this before on eBay, along with the $10K sealed original MacBook Air. Got to love these eBay sellers.
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Very Rare Original iPod in Factory Sealed Box Hits eBay for $19,995
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Smart. I makes it look like the asking price is as low as they can go.
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iPod was my first Apple product after the Apple ][. It filled a real need and eventually sucked me into the rest of the Apple product line. Each step wowed me. Happy times. These days it feels like the process is reversing itself as the Mac line is neglected and iPhone design goes in questionable directions.
Damn. And to think I got rid of an older model one a while back. I wonder how much I could have gotten had I held onto it?
I have a case of original Zunes I am trying to unload.
Trading for ketchup packets and used toothpicks
Trading for ketchup packets and used toothpicks
I remember when the iPhone first went on sale, some people put it on eBay for $1 million or more. One person who did that explicitly said in the post that the price was merely clickbait and didn't really expect to get that much.
Also remember how iPhones were originally $599, but then lowered to $399. This made original buyers angry so they got things for a $100 credit.
They are worthless, but that doesn't stop people with more money than brains from paying ridiculous sums of money for them.
The way we are going, in 25 years there won't be sufficient oxygen on earth to sustain life so it doesn't really matter.
Dead is the best case scenario. Swollen and leaking is my guess.
I have an original iPod, and i have the original box, but its not sealed... Wonder how much it would go for - not that I really want to sell it.
If you had bought $420 of Apple stock in October 2001 you would have $67,872 today.
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$525
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-iPod...853906&hash=item23bae38604:g:RcUAAOSwP0tcvJHV
Apple did have quite a run for a while with new, exciting products. But we didn't expect that roll to continue indefinitely, right? I mean, we can always hope, but let's be realistic. No company will ever just continue to introduce category-leading products year after year.
I had a few iPods back in the day, but not the original. I remember taking a computer troubleshooting/maintenance class at my local community college. We had to do an end of class presentation about a topic of our choosing. I chose to show the class how to install Mac OS X. Used my iPod as an external hard drive, and showed the basic installation steps. A few kids were amazed that I could install- and boot- off an iPod.
EverythingApplePro found this out the hard way. Usually there are indications in the quality of the wrap when something has been rewrapped.
man, if i hadn't just transferred 3k to the t-mobile 4% checking account, i would sooo get this!
I know, right? Now it's the same products, with maybe a new CPU, a millimeter or two thinner, or a slightly bigger screen. Nothing too earth shattering. Would love to see Apple bring back a modular Mac Pro in the style of Power Mac G4 or G5. Take off/swing down the side, and can add/replace the drives, RAM, GPU, etc. with a whole bunch of different stuff. Wouldn't mind an iMac with a touchscreen & stylus, a la Microsoft Surface Studio. Bring things PRODUCERS can use, not just consumers.
The fun thing about those original iPods was that it was made during a time when battery tech was still improving, and it was relatively easy to take off the back and replace the battery. So, when my original battery died, I replaced it with a new battery that had like 33% more capacity than the original when it was new.
Oh... and never had an issue with the thing randomly resetting. Because back then, Apple actually had proper power management
Oh... and never had an issue with the thing randomly resetting. Because back then, Apple actually had proper power management
No it's not. When stocks split, they divide down the historical prices so you do not account for any split.
AAPL was ~$1.31 in October 2001, it's $197.07 today, so that's 150x. 150 x $399 = $60,000.
