Sealed iPhone From 2007 Sells for $39,000 at Auction
Someone paid a lot of money for one of these.
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Apple released its?iPhone 14 lineup?last month, but someone dished out $39,339.60 on Sunday for an untouched, unboxed, original 2007 iPhone.?
LCG Auctions?had a sealed?8GB iPhone?on the block, and the winning bid exceeded the auction house’s expectation of $30,000.
“One of the most important and ubiquitous inventions of our lifetime,” the item description read. “This factory sealed, first-release example is in exceptional condition. … Collectors and investors would be hard-pressed to find a superior example.”
Bidding opened at $2,500 and ran from Sept. 30 to Oct. 16.?
The original iPhone?launched on June 27, 2007, for $599. Without taking inflation into account, the $39,339.60 auction sale is increase of more than 65 times its original price.
With $39,000, the winner could also have bought any group of these Apple products.
- 19?Mac Studio?desktops
- 24 Apple Studio Displays
- 32 MacBook Air laptops with M2
- 35?iPhone 14 Pro Max?phones
- 48?Apple Watch Ultra?models
- 97?Apple Watch Series 8?models
- 65?iPad Air?tablets
- 156 pairs of AirPods Pro 2
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