Unboxed iPhone 1 Sold for Tens of Thousands of Dollars

Apple, led by Steve Jobs 2007 introduced the first iPhone with an event that will go down in history. The device, which comes with a 3.5-inch touch screen, has almost brought an era to smart phones with its innovative features. For this reason, the iconic device continued to attract great attention even today.

In the past months, an auction house named LCG Auctions put up for sale an iPhone that was released in 2007 and was never taken out of its box, and the phone was bought for $39,339. Now, another unopened iPhone has been sold by the same auction house. Moreover, this time at a much higher price.

This unboxed iPhone found buyers for $63,356

Earlier this month, LCG Auctions auctioned off the first unboxed iPhone you can see from above, starting at $2500. In this process, offers from many people came to the phone rapidly rising. On February 19, the auction ended and $63,356 (1 million 195 thousand 166 TL) a person who gave it got the phone. Let’s add that the phone went on sale in 2007 for $ 599.

The device was sold at an even higher price than expected. The expected valuation for the phone before the auction was around $50,000. However, when the sale takes place, the iPhone is deducted from this amount. for a 27% higher coin appeared to have been sold.

According to Business Insider, this unboxed iPhone was first Karen Green It came as a gift to someone named. Green was using Verizon, one of the operators in the US; however, the iPhone was only available to customers of the telecommunications company AT&T. That’s why Green put the phone on the shelf. The device, which never opened, was sold years later through LCG Auctions.

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