First-generation, unopened iPhone from 2007 gets $39,000 at auction

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An unopened first-generation iPhone from 2007 still in its original box has sold for more than $39,000 at auction

when it debuted in 2007, it would've cost you $599. Fifteen years later, someone is paying almost $40,000 for the same thing.

An original iPhone just sold for $39,339.60 at auction. It was unused and unopened, still in its original sealed box.read."Relevance and rarity comprise a winning formula for this red hot collectible." estimated to fetch $30,000 or more on the auction block. Its price at sale is more than 65 times its original price when the phone first came out.

Bidding started at $2,500. Hours before the auction ended, the top bid hovered around $10,000, but bidding ramped up as the auction neared its close.

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