Original unopened iPod to sell for record-breaking $29,000

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in General Discussion edited August 2023

A first-generation iPod that's been around the auction block is up for sale once again -- fetching the highest price yet at $29,000.

An unopened iPod
An unopened iPod



The original iPod launched in 2001 for $399. The unit up for auction was originally purchased and offered as a gift, then left unopened for over a decade on a shelf.

A $20,000 eBay bid in 2014 saw it change hands, followed by a $25,000 RR auction sale in 2018. Since then, it's been through eBay sales multiple times and after then being in a private collection, next landed at Rally, a museum/trading hub located in Manhattan.

Items owned by Rally are put on an open market where people can buy "shares" of the product. If a collector buys out the product shares to own the product in full, the shareholders make the difference.

In a more regular auction in October 2022, a factory-sealed and never opened original iPhone went under the hammer for just over $39,000.

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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    morkymorky Posts: 200member
    I remember the packaging was great on the original iPod I gifted in 2001. Apparently that unboxing cost me $28,601.
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 2 of 3
    M68000M68000 Posts: 846member
    Can you imagine if somebody has a G4 cube in a sealed new box?  Could it go for $100,000 ?  Lol.   It would actually be cool if Apple brought back that design - except this time make the stand holding the computer out of high purity clear glass.
    edited August 2023 watto_cobra
  • Reply 3 of 3
    bestkeptsecretbestkeptsecret Posts: 4,276member
    morky said:
    I remember the packaging was great on the original iPod I gifted in 2001. Apparently that unboxing cost me $28,601.
    My first ever Apple product was the 3rd Generation iPod - 40GB. The Origami style packaging was like nothing else I had seen before. 
    It included a dock, a sleeve with a belt clip and a wired remote! It had such a premium feel to it. 

    I don't regret opening it!
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