The Apple relic sold for for an eye-popping $63,356.40 Sunday — more than 100 times its original price of $599 in 2007.
The phone sold at auction was the higher model with more storage capacity of the two first-generation models released.Karen Green said she never opened the phone she was gifted because she already had a new phone at the time.The lucky seller of the $63K iPhone, Karen Green, said she had gotten the phone as a gift from friends for starting a new job in 2007.
Green, however, already had a new phone and didn’t want to switch wireless carriers in order to activate the iPhone, she said.appraised on the daytime TV show “The Doctor & The Diva”“I didn’t want to get rid of my phone, and I figured, ‘It’s an iPhone, so it will never go out of date,'” she said during the show’s “Treasure Hunt” segment.
“If I could hold off on the phone for like another 10 years, I probably would,” Green told the outlet. “The only reason why I am selling that phone is because I need to support this business.”
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