--- title: Kim Kardashian: Buys, Stockpiles BlackBerry Phones From eBay description: Kim Kardashian admitted Monday to buying the somewhat dated phones on eBay so she always has a supply canonical: https://time.com/3543432/kim-kardashian-blackberry-ebay/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-28T14:37:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:07.064Z og:title: Kim Kardashian Can't Stop Stockpiling BlackBerry Phones From eBay og:description: "It’s my heart and soul" og:url: https://time.com/3543432/kim-kardashian-blackberry-ebay/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt907508e9673b546d/698762f706f2c1d350331990/83980167.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2307 og:image:height: 1298 og:image:alt: Verizon hosts an exclusive launch party for the Blackberry 8330 Pink Curve og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kim Kardashian Can't Stop Stockpiling BlackBerry Phones From eBay twitter:description: "It’s my heart and soul" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt907508e9673b546d/698762f706f2c1d350331990/83980167.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kim Kardashian Can't Stop Stockpiling BlackBerry Phones From eBay > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Oct 28, 2014 2:37 PM UTC  Television personality Kim Kardashian arrives at Verizon Wireless' exclusive launch party for the Blackberry 8330 Pink Curve in 2008 Television personality Kim Kardashian arrives at Verizon Wireless' exclusive launch party for the Blackberry 8330 Pink Curve in 2008 Mark Sullivan—WireImage by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Oct 28, 2014 2:37 PM UTC Kim Kardashian has placed the BlackBerry on the endangered species list — right next to the black rhino. And thus, she is creating her own smartphone reserve. While speaking at [Re/code’s mobile conference](http://recode.net/2014/10/27/kim-kardashian-west-code-mobile-2014/) on Monday, Kardashian (who also goes by Kardashian West) admitted to buying the somewhat dated phones on eBay and keeping them in her room. “It’s my heart and soul, I love it and I’ll never get rid of it,” she said. “I do have an iPhone, and I use it for photos. But if you write an email and you need to type fast — I like having the \[key\]board. They don’t even have them in stores anymore. I buy them on eBay. It’s a BlackBerry Bold. And I like to have three in my room that I line up in case they break.” In spite of BlackBerry’s recent business travails — it posted a [$4.4 billion Q3 2013 loss](http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2013/12/20/blackberry-still-bleeding-posts-4-4-billion-third-quarter-loss/), but has slowly but surely seen [rising sales](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/26/us-blackberry-results-idUSKCN0HL13J20140926) — Kim K. would rather be safe than sorry. “I love BlackBerry,” she said. “Every time I say that, people are horrified that I have a BlackBerry, and I don’t understand that reaction.” \[[_Re/code_](http://recode.net/2014/10/27/kim-kardashian-west-code-mobile-2014/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3543432/kim-kardashian-blackberry-ebay/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3543432/kim-kardashian-blackberry-ebay/"},"headline":"Kim Kardashian Can't Stop Stockpiling BlackBerry Phones From eBay","datePublished":"2014-10-28T14:37:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:07.064Z","description":"\"It’s my heart and soul\"","url":"https://time.com/3543432/kim-kardashian-blackberry-ebay/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Living","Technology","Blackberry","Kim Kardashian"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt907508e9673b546d/698762f706f2c1d350331990/83980167.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt907508e9673b546d/698762f706f2c1d350331990/83980167.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Verizon hosts an exclusive launch party for the Blackberry 8330 Pink Curve","caption":"Verizon hosts an exclusive launch party for the Blackberry 8330 Pink Curve","creditText":"Mark Sullivan—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3543432/kim-kardashian-blackberry-ebay/","name":"Kim Kardashian Can't Stop Stockpiling BlackBerry Phones From eBay"}}]}] ```