Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Velocity Alert: Used iPhone With Flappy Bird Selling for $100,000 on eBay

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Used iPhone With Flappy Bird Selling for $100,000 on eBay

Have you missed a chance to get your copy of Flappy Bird, the megapopular iOS game which was mysteriously pulled from the App Store this weekend? Worry not, you can still get it -- if you've got $99,900 to spare. An eBay user is selling an iPhone with Flappy Bird installed for the starting price of $650.

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