{"id":8240,"date":"2022-10-18T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytrendtales.com\/?p=8240"},"modified":"2022-10-19T07:19:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T07:19:46","slug":"someone-just-paid-close-to-40k-for-an-original-sealed-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytrendtales.com\/someone-just-paid-close-to-40k-for-an-original-sealed-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Just Paid Close to $40K for an Original Sealed iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Would you pay close to $40,000 for an iPhone? Probably not, but someone just did. At a recent auction held by LCG Auctions, an unnamed buyer paid that sum for an original sealed iPhone.\n\n\n\n</p><p>When it came out in 2007, the first generation iPhone with a 2-megapixel camera and 4GB of storage went for $499. It appears that one person decided to buy one and then put it away for 15 years. They dusted it off recently and offered it at an auction with a starting bid of $2,500.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cBrand new, never activated,\u201d it says in the description. \u201cCollectors and investors would be hard pressed to find a superior example. Relevance and rarity comprise a winning formula for this red hot collectible.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>According to the LCG Auctions\u2019 website, 28 bids were placed in total between September 30th and October 16th. The winning bid stood at $39,339.60, beating the previous record price for an unopened iPhone 1 of $35,000.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-embed' is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter><div class='\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"'>\n<blockquote class='\"twitter-tweet\"' data-width='\"550\"' data-dnt='\"true\"'><p lang='\"en\"' dir='\"ltr\"'>$39,340: New record price paid for an original sealed iPhone. <br><br>Auctioned off tonight by <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/twitter.com%5C/lcgauctions?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%5C%22">@lcgauctions. <br><br>Breaks record set in August of $35,414. </a><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/t.co%5C/iKIMtuP9Ag%5C%22">pic.twitter.com\/iKIMtuP9Ag&mdash; Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) </a><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/twitter.com%5C/darrenrovell%5C/status%5C/1581792061052764160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%5C%22">October 16, 2022<script async src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/platform.twitter.com%5C/widgets.js%5C%22" charset='\"utf-8\"'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first generation iPhone was announced in January 2007 before seeing U.S. release six months later. 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