SHENZHEN, CHINA : A Chinese woman in China persuaded her 20 boyfriends to buy 20 iPhones 7 and then sold them on a recycling site in order to buy a house.
She managed to earn about £725 for each one and used the money to put down a deposit on a house.
Xiaoli is a woman from the city of Shenzhen in southern China, and after receiving the twenty newly launched iPhone 7 from her boyfriends, she sold them all to a mobile phone recycling site called Hui Shou Bao for 120,000 Chinese yuan (about £14,500).
The house she bought was in the countryside, and when she showed her new house to their group of friends, they were all very surprised when she revealed the way she got the money.
Since numerous people suspicious after hearing the story, BBC Trending approached Hui Shou Bao and a company spokesperson confirmed that they had indeed bought 20 iPhones from a female client at the beginning of October and paid 6,000 Chinese yuan (about £725) for each one.
The hashtag “20 mobiles for a house” quickly started trending on Weibo, and has been used more than 13 million times.
She managed to earn about £725 for each one and used the money to put down a deposit on a house.
Xiaoli is a woman from the city of Shenzhen in southern China, and after receiving the twenty newly launched iPhone 7 from her boyfriends, she sold them all to a mobile phone recycling site called Hui Shou Bao for 120,000 Chinese yuan (about £14,500).
The house she bought was in the countryside, and when she showed her new house to their group of friends, they were all very surprised when she revealed the way she got the money.
Since numerous people suspicious after hearing the story, BBC Trending approached Hui Shou Bao and a company spokesperson confirmed that they had indeed bought 20 iPhones from a female client at the beginning of October and paid 6,000 Chinese yuan (about £725) for each one.
The hashtag “20 mobiles for a house” quickly started trending on Weibo, and has been used more than 13 million times.
