With no way for users to download TikTok, thousands of eBay sellers have listed phones with the app installed — hoping to capitalize on TikTok’s disappearance from US app stores following a brief ban.

(CNN) – Sellers on eBay have a hot, new commodity: phones with TikTok still installed. TikTok was removed from app stores on Saturday ahead of a federal ban. While the app is available again for people who already had it downloaded, it remains missing from app stores.

With a market cap of $30.6 billion, eBay Inc. (EBAY) is a global online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers worldwide through its website, eBay.com, mobile apps, and off-platform businesses.

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.

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TikTok being banned across the United States has created a new market on eBay for smartphones that already have the app installed.

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As first spotted by Wired, there are currently about 9,000 eBay item listings for various smartphones that already have TikTok installed. There’s a wide array of devices depending on the preferred make,

Thousands of eBay sellers are taking advantage of that. Listings range from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Even though TikTok is available now, it’s future in the United States is still murky. President Donald Trump signed an executive order delaying the federal ban for 75 days.

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.

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