What just happened? The sale for that USB-C iPhone closed yesterday and the winner made off with it using the tried-and-true method of bidding one dollar over the high bid in the terminal seconds. The sale closed at $86,001. Is a USB-C iPhone really worth that much?

A black iPhone X that went up for auction on Nov i has sold for $86,001 on eBay. Every bit we reported final week, the phone was modified to support USB-C and had generated 170 bids in four days, with offers reaching $99,900 past November 4.

Six retractions brought the winning bid back down to $86,000, where information technology remained for several days. And then someone offered $86,001 in the last seconds of the auction, winning the phone.

The value of the iPhone X is dubious on its surface. The applied science educatee, Ken Pillonel, who did the modification, warned buyers not to restore, update, or erase the iPhone. And then essentially, information technology's like buying someone else's phone and never beingness allowed to make information technology your own.

The only things that set information technology apart from a typical iPhone are that information technology has a USB-C port instead of a Lighting connexion and that information technology is a i-of-a-kind particular. Whoever is shelling out $86,000 for information technology likely wants to tear it apart to figure out how to brand a knock-off device.

Apple tree'southward flagship phone has seen outrageous prices in the by. Commonly, they are unique custom jobs like the iPhone 3G Kings Button ($two.five one thousand thousand) or the iPhone 4s Elite Gold ($9.4 one thousand thousand). However, scalpers saw bids as high equally $lx,000 on eBay for standard iPhone Ten pre-orders in 2022.