A woman named Karen Green had an original iPhone from 2007, which was STILL factory-sealed. 

Back then (16 years ago), she had just scored a new management job at PetSmart and to celebrate, her friends bought her an iPhone.  But Karen never ended up opening it because she already had a phone that she liked, and she had a contract with Verizon.  (At the time, iPhones could only be used with AT&T.)

But since it was a gift, she just kept it.  A while back, she heard that a first-generation iPhone sold for thousands on eBay.  She had it appraised in 2019 for $5,000.  And now, she finally decided to unload it.

It sold at auction on Sunday for $63,356.40.  It was expected to sell for $50K.  Karen’s friends probably paid $599 for it back in 2007. 

Source: USA Today