The TikTok app is still not available in Google Play or Apple's App Store despite Trump's order halting the ban. Here's what's happening.
The iPhone 15 and 16 models generally sell for between $1,200 and $1,500 on eBay. When the app was first banned iPhones with TikTok installed were listed for as much as $1 million during the app's 14 hour blackout, Ukrainian technology news outlet ITC reported.
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.
Spearheaded by the president's own memecoin, people including Donald Trump are rushing to cash in on Donald Trump’s inauguration and second term in office.
Limited-edition Metro cards for President-elect Trump’s inauguration are available as some begin reselling on eBay.
On eBay, smartphones with TikTok still installed fetch hundreds to thousands of dollars, with one iPhone 16 Pro Max with the app is going for $5,000 and another iPhone 16 Plus asking for over $3,000.
Phones are going for thousands of dollars on online storefronts after Apple and Google took down ByteDance platforms.
While President Trump has signed an executive order providing TikTok an extra 75 days in the US, the company has not returned the app to the Apple and Google app stores. As a result, some are selling their phones that already have the app downloaded.
The launch of the Trumps’ tokens just before the inauguration represents a troubling development in the realm of money in politics.
The ongoing feud between the U.S. government and TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, began in 2020, when President Donald Trump proposed the first ban on TikTok in the U.S., claiming it threatened national security.
The crypto industry has a derogatory term for get-rich quick schemes: 'rug pull.' That means cashing in fast and then running away. Sound familiar?