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.

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,

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.

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Some iPhones with the TikTok app, which is currently unavailable in the Apple and Google app stores, are fetching big bucks on eBay in the wake of the video-sharing app's brief ban in the United States.

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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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.

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.

Since TikTok was pulled off app stores in the U.S., people are selling their phones with TikTok downloaded. But it's not as easy as it looks.

The TikTok ban has a temporary reprieve, but its still not available in the App Store or Google Play – so some creators are taking drastic measures