Sell some of the 170 million American users from Tiktok Phones with the Social Media app For them, thousands of dollars are loaded online.
The parent company Bytedance closed the Tiktok app voluntarily in the US on Sunday, hours for a deadline to sell the app or to have it banned about worrying with regard to the Chinese tires. Tiktok was temporarily unavailable for users in the US, before President Donald Trump paved a ban on the app in the US on Monday to enter into force.
During the weekend even those who had already downloaded the app to their phones could not be able to use it before it became available again. Although the service has since been restored to existing users, the app is still not available in the American app stores, and therefore it remains not available to anyone who had not downloaded it before.
Now telephones that Tiktok have already installed are suddenly a hot commodity. Dozens of offers for telephones and tablets that the app already has have surfaced since then on platforms, including the online market of the market.
Among them is an eBay list for a device that is described as a brand new Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max with Tiktok for $ 50,000, or “best offer”. According to the Ebay site, nearly 80 shoppers keep an eye on the list.
Other similar offers are plentiful, including devices that are listed for sale for only hundreds of dollars. Some offers advertise telephones with active tap accounts, while others say that the app is installed, but not linked to an account. Ebay did not immediately respond to CBS MoneyWatch’s request to comment on the offers.
The American users of Tiktok are not the target of the ban that President Trump paused until the beginning of April. But the law that protects Americans against foreign opponents would do that Make it illegal For App stores from Google or Apple, as well as web hosting services, to distribute or service Tiktok.