SortStack #2418 — 2033-01-21

By price · Order from cheapest to most expensive.

1. An iPhone Pro at launch $999

   The components inside an iPhone cost Apple roughly half the sticker price — the rest covers R&D, software, marketing, and famously healthy margins.

2. The rarest Pokemon card, the Pikachu Illustrator, in mint condition $5.3M

   Logan Paul bought it in 2022, setting a Guinness World Record — then wore it around his neck into a WrestleMania match.

3. One M1 Abrams main battle tank $10M

   The Abrams runs on a gas turbine — essentially a jet engine — and can burn through roughly four liters of fuel per kilometer.

4. Banksy's 'Love is in the Bin,' the painting that shredded itself at auction $25.4M

   The hidden shredder jammed halfway, leaving the work half-intact. Three years after the stunt, the 'ruined' piece resold for roughly eighteen times its pre-shred price.

5. Chelsea Football Club, in the forced sale of the Abramovich era $3.1B

   The 2022 sale was forced by UK sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine — proceeds were earmarked for war victims, and it became the priciest sports team sale to date.

6. The entire Apollo Moon program, in the dollars of its day $25.4B

   At its peak, Apollo employed about 400,000 people and consumed more than 4% of the US federal budget — per landing, each Moon mission cost less than a modern aircraft carrier.

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