Business Insider's scan of platforms like eBay and Facebook Marketplace showed hundreds of listings touting phones with TikTok and CapCut installed.
Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars online, after the social media app was momentarily unavailable in the U.S.
With the app still unavailable on US app stores, people are betting on TikTok being a profitable added extra to secondhand handsets.
Many people are listing iPhones with TikTok installed on eBay for thousands of dollars as the app remains absent on Google and Apple app stores.
TikTok is still unavailable on Apple's and Google's respective app stores after it was removed last weekend. The app briefly went dark on Saturday, and while
Some cell phone users didn’t delete the TikTok app from their devices during its short ban in the U.S. Now, it appears they may be hoping to cash in by selling their phones.
At the time of publication, a search for "TikTok phone" produces over 24,000 results, with the lowest "Buy it Now" listing selling for $400 and the highest asking for (checks notes) $4,970,400 million with CapCut, a video editing app also owned by ByteDance pre-installed in addition to TikTok.
TikTok's service in the US may have been restored, but it's still not available for download leading to some crazy eBay listings.
If you still have TikTok installed on your phone, you might be able to make a few thousand dollars by listing it on eBay.
Three days after ByteDance's TikTok went dark and then was quickly revived in the United States, users who deleted the app were anxiously checking iPhone and Android devices to find it still unavailable to be downloaded again.
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