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lol i am glad i dont have those people around me   would annoy me

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No1 paid that shit Troll bidded n didn't pay Flappy bird has been all over the news this week Mission accomplished A simple game where u go up and down to avoid obstacles I was playing more advan

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You can't actually sell your Flappy Bird phone on eBay

Sellers who attempted to capitalize on withdrawal symptoms suffered by those addicted to the year's hottest app tell Crave's Eric Mack eBay has put the kibosh on their cash cow.

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February 11, 2014 3:25 PM PST  
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Turns out this auction and others like it violated eBay's copyright policies.

(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET)

Despite numerous headlines flying around this week about smartphones with the now-grounded Flappy Bird app installed selling for as much as $100,000 on eBay, it's unlikely any of those sales have actually gone through.

I've been in touch with multiple eBay sellers who have had their auctions pulled from the online marketplace for violating eBay's listing policies. Basically, selling copyrightable material (like an app) without permission from the creator (Dong Nguyen in this case) is a no-go.

You can find the relevant eBay policy here, and below is part of an e-mail from eBay to one of the sellers in question, which I obtained:

Smartphones and tablets must be restored to factory settings before they are allowed to be sold on eBay. Please remove all content from your device, including the game Flappy Bird, before you attempt to list your item again. Please be sure your current and future listings follow these guidelines, keeping in mind that additional violations of this policy could result in the suspension of your account.

So there it is. That seems to eliminate any possibility that folks are making six figures off their old phones with a really simplistic but addictive game installed. At least not on eBay. There does seem to be several Flappy Bird phones for sale by Amazon sellers, though -- at least for now.

By the way, Android users should have no trouble finding places online to download the Flappy Bird APK file and side-load it on their device. I wonder if anyone would be willing to pay $100,000 on eBay for me to make a house call to perform that service? Let me know in the comments and we'll talk.

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No1 paid that shit

Troll bidded n didn't pay

Flappy bird has been all over the news this week

Mission accomplished

A simple game where u go up and down to avoid obstacles

I was playing more advanced games 20 years ago on the sega

The same lads that took the piss out of people getting exited over the possibilities of gta, are actually spending hours of their short life flapping a bird up n down on their phone

All because it was in the app chart

The world is too stupid for me to not be rich

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lol at ever clicking on dinky links or downloading his mixes

just lol

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coming from some guy who sits in his south london flat all day typing a bag of fantasy's about exploits from across Europe and a next guy who whole angle is to be anti muslim and generally to be against the stat quo.

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real fake

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