Business Insider's scan of platforms like eBay and Facebook Marketplace showed hundreds of listings touting phones with TikTok and CapCut installed.

The iPhone 15 and 16 models generally sell for between $1,200 and $1,500 on eBay. When the app was first banned iPhones with TikTok installed were listed for as much as $1 million during the app's 14 hour blackout, Ukrainian technology news outlet ITC reported.

With the app still unavailable on US app stores, people are betting on TikTok being a profitable added extra to secondhand handsets.

Bobrov, the company stated: “At eBay, we’re leveraging the latest advances in AI to redefine the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts. The evolution from LLMs to agentic systems is happening faster than most of us would have predicted just a year ago,

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,

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.

Bay has announced plans to acquire Caramel, a startup that helps car sellers and buyers complete the final steps of the transaction.

TikTok being banned across the United States has created a new market on eBay for smartphones that already have the app installed.

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

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.