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Phone With 'Flappy Bird' App Selling For Almost $100k

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Channel: The Fowler Show · 2014 · News & Politics

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After Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen followed through on his decision to pull Flappy Bird from both the Apple App Store and Android Marketplace, fans with the game installed are attempting to cash in by listing their phones on eBay.

Just hours after the game was taken down from the App Store on Sunday, iPhones with Flappy Bird installed began appearing on eBay, listing the "rare" game as the reason for their high starting prices. One used iPhone 5S has reached almost $100,000 in bids, making an iPhone with Flappy Bird installed almost as expensive as a pristine condition vintage Porsche. An eBay search for 'Flappy Bird iPhone" lists 1,620 results, almost all of them are used iPhones being sold with the game installed.


 

This listing has 63 bids. It's already up to $90,100:


 

Flappy Bird was the first success for the low-profile Vietnamese game developer Dong Nguyen, who created basic games largely by himself. When Flappy Bird began to rocket up the App Store charts, he expressed concern that people were overusing his game.
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