On Friday, ZTE put its ZTE Open Firefox OS handset exclusively for sale on eBay UK and eBay US.

It was priced at a crazy £60 in the UK.

It was released on ebay last Friday, but by Monday both the US and UK eBay stores of ZTE, the Chinese company which manufactured the handset, had sold out. The budget phone will now no longer be available until the next production run.

However, don’t panic. If you really want a ZTE Open, you can buy mine for £70 plus £5 postage.