Secondhand phones with TikTok installed listed on eBay for thousands of dollars. And it appears that some people may actually be buying it.

Despite US president Donald Trump signing a executive order on Monday Delaying any potential ban on the social media app for 75 days, TikTok remains out of all US app stores—with Apple and Google not giving notice when it will return. That means if you’re in America and delete the app or lose your phone, you’re now locked out, with no way to download it again. For content creators, brand marketers, and social media managers, that can spell disaster. And an expensive one at that.

Opportunistic eBayers seized the opportunity to cash in on this misfortune. A quick search for “TikTok phone” brings up more than 9,000 listings in use. smartphones from the likes of Apple and Samsung, all with the TikTok app already installed.

This is possible by signing out the seller of the iCloud or Google account associated with the device rather than wiping the phone back to factory settings. Any buyer should be careful not to sync with any existing cloud backup, to avoid losing the app they paid so much to get.

Some of these phones are listed as much $50,000 under eBay’s Buy It Now selling format, but it’s hard to believe that anyone actually thought their phone would sell for that—and there’s no indication that they have.

There are many more listed in the $2,000 to $5,000 range, but if anyone actually buys it at this price, it seems unlikely.

What can be said is that, despite the rise in prices, there is the interest. These phones the sale, but for exactly how much is more difficult to determine. Select the “sold” filter in the eBay search and there are many sales that appear completed, but almost all of them have an undisclosed “best offer accepted” note connected to them.

Any completed auctions with wildly inflated prices seem to be relisted soon after, suggesting an unsuccessful sale, with only one sitting close to the market value for second-hand phones that looks really sold out.

A quick look at the auctions currently running also shows more reasonable prices than the initial search would suggest.

The true impact of any TikTok premium is a bit unclear, then, but that doesn’t stop people from trying. The results for the phone search term TikTok have risen to over 2,000 items at the time of writing this article—a sense of urgency that is no doubt driven by the fact that the app can be returned to the app stores even what time

Currently, searching for TikTok in any app store is met with statements from Google and Apple citing legal requirements as the reason the app is not available in their stores. This is despite Trump’s executive order clearly directing the Department of Justice to “not act to enforce the Act or impose any sanctions against any entity for any non-compliance with the Act.”

Whether TikTok will reappear before the end of the 75 days remains to be seen—as with any deal Trump has cut in the meantime—but the exiles aren’t completely without options. this week, thousands of users Another Chinese-owned social media platform, RedNote, has flocked, leaving the app scrambling to hire English moderators.

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is also trying to take lost TikTokers under their wing, introducing a trouble with new familiar parts and even offer big influencers like $5,000 to join its platforms.