As a technology enthusiast, it’s not uncommon for you to decide to keep all the devices you’ve used as a souvenir or for nostalgia. I have friends who have huge display cases where they keep all the cell phones they use, from the days when there were only distant rumors about the iPhone.
Now this can be a source of income for you. There is an ever-expanding network of buying and selling old cell phones, in which some terminals can reach values of up to several thousand dollars. And yes, iPhones also play a role here.
Upday reported some time ago: some sales and auctions place pioneering mobile phones like the Motorola 8000X (considered the first mobile phone in history) with values that easily exceed 4,000 dollars. On eBay, it can be found for up to 9,500 dollars at the time of writing.
Some models of the Motorola Aura, equipped with a rotary keyboard and a design that stood out at the time, were sold for more than 1,000 dollars according to the source. Even the Nokia 8800, a cell phone that some of you of a certain age know you’ve seen on the street, sells for 400 dollars. But These prices pale when you add iPhones to the equation.
The kings of the auction will always be the iPhone
Suffice it to recall some auctions of original iPhones, which reached up to $190,000 simply for being sealed in their original packaging. And if it is open, don’t worry, because in other auctions there has been talk of a sale price of $60,000.
With this, it stands to reason that finding an unopened shipment of an 8GB iPhone is like winning the lottery. It might be worth less if you’ve used it, but if you have a collection that includes one of your first iPhones, you can have a very interesting revenue stream. And if it doesn’t now, in the future its value could increase much more.
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