The object was sold for 100 times its original selling price.
New record for an iPhone. This time a 2007 model – Apple’s first – was sold $63,356 at auction this weekend (actually $52,797 plus 20% commission).
8 GB of memory, a 2 megapixel camera and a 3.5 inch screen… the first iPhone was a real revolution launched by Steve Jobs. Still wrapped, the object regularly breaks auction records, the last having sold for nearly 40,000 dollars last October.
For the record, the smartphone in question belonged to a beautician who had received it as a gift in 2007, as a congratulations on her new job. But a loyal customer of the operator Verizon – the iPhone only worked with the operator AT&T – she had put it aside.
Obviously a good idea, although she might surely have kept it in a blister pack for a few more years to increase her profits.
“If I might wait another 10 years, I probably would,” she tells Business Insider. “The only reason I’m selling this phone is to support my business.”
That’s still 100 times the original price of $599.