She left her 2007 iPhone in its box for over a decade. It just sold for $63K

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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs discusses the iPhone during a June 2007 keynote address. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

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When Karen Green got a new job in 2007, some of her friends pitched in to buy her a brand-new iPhone.

And while hundreds of thousands of Americans clamored to get their hands on the first version of the revolutionary (as Apple correctly predicted) smartphone, Green wasn’t one of them — in part because she had upgraded her new

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