Flippity flap, clappity clap, sell me a very expensive iPhone app. What am I jibber-jabbering about? Flappy bird of course. The very popular iPhone app shot to the top of the App Store charts because of its addictive gameplay. And enterprising Flappy Bird owners are cashing in as iPhone's preloaded with the app are sprouting up all over eBay. One such auction nearly reached the $100,000 mark. However, the auction has since been removed from the site. Hoax or not, just bidding on a game that doesn't even come in physical, tangible packaging is nuts.

Get this: the game's developer, Dong Nguyen, pulled the game from the App Store last Sunday because he couldn't take the increased attention he was getting! 

He was relentlessly abused by online trolls and video game news reporters alike. A lot of people are saying the game's artwork and animations were plagiarized from Super Mario games! Mr. Nguyen has insisted that he didn't copy and past sprites; rather he used the Mario game as a source of inspiration. He drew up all the artwork by hand.

He was reportedly making roughly $50,000 a day from the in-game ad's. Won't this hurt his bottom line? Not really. People who downloaded the app prior to Sunday will continue to generate ad revenue for Mr. Nguyen. As long as his user base continues to play away, Mr. Nyugen will continue to get rich.

Here's some of the not-so-nice press Mr. Nguyen received:

"Flappy Bird isn't a good video game... arguably not even a fun one," IGN wrote on Feb. 8, calling it "completely artless."

"Press people are overrating the success of my games," Nguyen tweeted at the beginning of February. "It is something I never want. Please give me peace."

"I hate to say it, but it looks really similar to bot activity," app developer Carter Thomas wrote on Jan. 31, before adding, "Of course, I can't prove this."

Would you even remotely consider buying an iPhone for tens of thousands of dollars if it included the app you cannot live without? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.