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
