People are trying to make serious dollar by selling iPhones with Fortnite installed on them

Ever since Fortnite was pulled from Apple's App Store, people have taken to selling iPhones with the game still installed to make some money.

If you quickly search 'iPhone Fortnite' on eBay and sort it to the highest price, you'll be hit with a bunch of listings which range from £11 to £8,000 on onwards.

At the time of writing, the most expensive listing we've seen so far is £10,800, which is for an iPhone 11 listed as "Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max Fortnite Installed Chapter 2 Season 3 Unlocked 256gb".

People on Twitter have caught on to these massively fluctuating prices of iPhones on the website and are calling it out.

One listing for an eye-watering £7,000 is claiming to be 'brand new' despite having obviously been used to install the Fortnite app on the phone previously.

Apple and Google removed Fortnite from their respective app stores earlier this month over a legal dispute with Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite.

While the app is seemingly still playable on Andriod phones, it isn't available to download on the Google Play Store.

This feud has resulted in iOS gamers being left unable to download and play Fortnite on their phones, which is what people are now trying to cash in on.

The game was previously free on mobiles and it also remains free to download and play on PS4, Xbox and PC, so it seems a bit odd people would be willing to spend so much.

You'd be forgiven for thinking this sounds familiar and it actually has happened a few times with consoles and mobiles alike.

PS4 players will no-doubt remember the terrifying demo for what was going to be the next Silent Hill game simply called PT.

The game was cancelled and subsequently, the demo was taken off the PS Store, so if you had previously deleted it you had no way of getting it back to replay it.

People began selling their PlayStation consoles with the demo installed for an exorbitant sum, and even today there is a listing for a PS4 with PT going for £700.

You'll also remember Flappy Birds having a similar issue on mobile devices. The game was taken offline on February 10, 2014 and it was removed from both the App Store and Google Play by its creator.

Following this, people began selling their phones with the game installed to people who just couldn't survive without it.

Eventually, clones of Flappy Birds flew onto the App Store and Google Play, and some clever people found a way you could also get PT back on a PS4 if you had it downloaded and previously deleted it.

There's absolutely every chance that Fortnite will appear back on the App Store if a resolution is made between Epic and Apple, so maybe don't go spending an extreme amount of money on a free game.

Even if you have Fortnite on your phone still, you can't play any new content as there's no update support for it since it was removed, which means it's outdated and you won't get access to the new season when it launches August 27.

Regardless, Fortnite is still available to download for free on PS4, Xbox and PC.

We have reached out to eBay and Epic Games regarding this.