An old iPhone was bought for about 32 million Naira Karen Green first owned an iPhone in 2007, but then she did something that many p...
An old iPhone was bought for about 32 million Naira
Karen Green first owned an iPhone in 2007, but then she did something that many people don't do - she didn't unlock it at all.
The iPhone, the first of its kind, was auctioned for $63,356.40 on Sunday, equivalent to thirty-one million naira at the official price.
The price was beyond her imagination, she thought it would not exceed $50,000. It's almost 100 percent more than the $599 original price of the 8GB storage phone.
But don't expect your old phone to be worth that much, unless it's still in its original box as manufactured by the company.
To have such a real phone, and the first part of the phone manufactured in 2007, attached to its original box with the company's logo, this is not a small surprise, said Mark Montero of the company LCG who made the phone.
The LCG company that auctioned the phone, opened the opportunity to bid for 2,500 US dollars on February 2, and closed on Sunday after 27 people bid for it.
A friend gave Ms Green the phone as a gift in 2007, after she got a new job, as she revealed in an interview with her in 2019. At that time, she had already bought a new phone with her own money, so she kept the old one. she was given the prize.
"It's an iPhone, it's not old yet".
IPhone users have been known to shell out money to buy the latest phone at whatever cost. Last year, an Apple computer manufactured in 1970 sold for $677,000.
The first such phone was sold for $35,414 in August and another one was sold in October for $39,339.
Ms. Green told Business Insider magazine that she should hold off on the phone for a while to make it more expensive, but she needs some money to start the business.
BBC Hausa