TikTok loaded phones are selling for thousands online after momentary ban
CBSN
Some of TikTok's 170 million U.S.-based users are selling phones with the social media app preloaded on them for thousands of dollars online.
Parent company ByteDance voluntarily shut down the TIkTok app in the U.S. Sunday, hours before a deadline to either sell the app or have it banned over concerns related to its China ties. TikTok was momentarily unavailable to U.S.-based users, before President Donald Trump on Monday paused a ban on the app operating in the U.S. from going into effect.
Over the weekend, even those who had already downloaded the app to their phones were not able to use it, before it became available again. While service has since been restored for existing users, the app is still not available download in U.S.-based app stores, and so it remains unavailable to anyone who hadn't previously downloaded it.
