A woman from Shenzhen in China, known only as Xiaoli, raised around £14,000 by convincing her boyfriends, all 20 of them, to each buy her an iPhone 7. She then sold the phones via the website Hui Shou Nao and made 115,010 Chine yuan (£13,991), which she used to buy a house in the countryside.
According to a colleague of Xiaoli, Proud Qiaoba, Xiaoli is not from a wealthy family and her ‘mum is a housewife and her dad is a migrant worker, and she is the oldest daughter.’
‘Her parents are getting old and she might be under a lot pressure hoping to buy them a house… But it’s still unbelievable that she could use this method!’
Xiaoli allegedly sold the 20 iPhone 7s to the website for around £700 each, which Hui Shou Bao confirmed to the BBC.
