Apple have pretty much given up on the iPod and with good reason, at least from a ubiquitous corporate tech giant standpoint. The rest of us, the lowly peons if you will, we’re actually still pretty big fans of that little white industry revolution in a box.
Sure, it’s more efficient to just hold all your music on your phone and with the Apple Music streaming platform you have all the music you could imagine right at your finger tips, but that classic, first-generation bad boy still holds a certain charm.
About AUD$5,000 worth of charm, to be precise. That’s how much a 5GB first generation classic iPod still in the original box is currently going for on eBay, and that’s not an anomaly either. Search ‘iPod’ on eBay and you top-end of the price spectrum is about $900-$1,500.
We previously reported on how much classic iPods had gone up in value in recent years. Back in December 2014, selling your an effectively old iPod on eBay could net you between AU$656.30 and $937.58, and it seems the value of the market has only gone up in the last year.
For example, right now a 20GB U2 Special Edition black and red iPod can net you a clean $350 if it’s been used but in good condition, or up to a staggering $6,500 if it’s brand new and factory sealed, which is actually mind-boggling to even fathom.
Just to put that in context, you could get a 2006 Mazda 6 Classic for the same price.
Even iPod Nanos are fetching a pretty penny on eBay. Basically, if you happen to have an old iPod lying around somewhere, kept it in relatively good condition, and didn’t throw away the box, you can flog it online and buy yourself a new iPhone, cash.
At the end of the day, items are worth about as much value as we ascribe to them (something we’ve previously touched on with vinyl) and having a factory sealed original iPod is kind of a cool cultural artefact to have around the house. But why you’d want a 20GB U2 iPod Classic beats us.
