Solid gold iPhones on eBay: yeah right

by Ryan Block, posted May 14th 2007 at 1:04PM

Business 2.0 is reporting today that not just any iPhones have made their way onto eBay, but some "14 kart solid gold" 8GB units. Not entirely implausible if it were a month from now, but whereas normally we'd just ignore, this one's a little too tantalizing. Yes, the seller has a 99% positive rating on eBay, but seller ratings are easily and often inflated and used to gain credibility before selling one larger, fraudulent items. If this is the real deal (and someone wants to plunk down ten grand to find out), we're prepared to eat our 14 kart solid gold words.

[Via Business 2.0]

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Filed under: Handsets, Apple

Tags: apple, debunk, ebay, iphone, rumor

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