TikTok is in a kind of limbo at the moment, not technically shut down because it received an extension to find an American buyer under the Trump administration, but not available in the iPhone or Android app stores because of concerns of responsibility. So if you’re totally fighting for that sweet, sweet unlimited scrolling vertical video but you didn’t remember to install the app on your phone before hitting the soft ban , you should try your luck on eBay, where people sell. phones pre-loaded with the TikTok app for thousands of dollars.

as first spotted by Wiredthere are currently about 9,000 eBay listings for various smartphones that already have TikTok installed. There is a wide range of devices depending on the preferred make, model, and carrier of your phone. For example, you can get the Samsung Galaxy A54 5G equipped with TikTok at Consumer Cellular for $250 or a T-Mobile-compatible Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max for $450. But for the most part, if you want one of these TikTok machines, you should be willing to fork out more than the MSRP.

Most listings have at least three zeros at the end of them, putting the starting price in the thousands—like this iPhone 14 currently listed at $7,500 with, at the time of publication, one person currently holding the item in their cart. There are several listings currently asking tens of thousands of dollars, including one with a listing price of $50,000 (or best offer, but either way, you’ll have to pay the shipping which is a little less, frankly).

It should be noted that there is a difference between the items listed at these prices and the people who actually buy them. While some of the listings for phones with TikTok installed have thousands of views in the last 24 hours, there is more attention than sales. Most of the tools that have been sold, as shown by the “finished sale” filter on eBay, show that sellers often settle for an offer and not the list price. However, some people have successfully cashed in on the opportunism: There’s a listing for an iPhone 16 Pro Max that shows it’s being sold for $12,999 list price (although the seller has zero history on the platform so it’s possible it’s a fake sale).

A similar incident like this has happened before. Back when Flappy Bird was all the rage and the creator eventually decided to pull the app for his own personal sanity, phones with the game installed were also sold on eBay, including a device that produced a bidding war resulted in a $99,900 winning bid. . That sale finally killed by eBay because it requires all phones sold on its platform to be wiped and restored to factory settings before shipping.

It seems so eBay still requires factory resets for devices sold through its market, so hopefully, sellers who sell a phone with TikTok installed have not yet spent this income.