--- ---  # This Woman Convinced Her 20 Boyfriends to Buy Her 20 iPhone 7s Which She Sold to Buy a House  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 31, 2016 10:20 PM UTC  An Apple phone is seen at a shop after Apple launched iPhone 7 and 7 plus in Moscow, Russia on October 26, 2016\. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) An Apple phone is seen at a shop after Apple launched iPhone 7 and 7 plus in Moscow, Russia on October 26, 2016\. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Anadolu Agency—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 31, 2016 10:20 PM UTC Let us recognize today a heroic woman who parlayed her [resourcefulness and hustle](http://time.com/3662361/women-american-west/) into a scheme that involved her convincing her 20 boyfriends to buy her 20 [new iPhone 7s](http://time.com/4487993/apple-iphone-7-review/), which she then sold, using the profits to put a down payment on a house. According to the [_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37754565), a Chinese blogger using the pseudonym Proud Qiaoba shared this astounding tale about her friend Xiaoli (also a pseudonym), who sold the 20 iPhone 7s for a total 120,000 Chinese yuan (about $18,000) to a tech resale company, then used this money to pay for a new home. While the _BBC_ was unable to confirm whether this fantastic narrative was entirely true, they did, however confirm that the resale company did, indeed, buy 20 new iPhones 7s from a woman in early October. May we all approach our goals with this scope of vision in the future. Woman Gets Her 20 Boyfriends to Buy Her 20 iPhones For House ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4552453/woman-sells-20-iphones-for-house/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4552453/woman-sells-20-iphones-for-house/"},"headline":"This Woman Convinced Her 20 Boyfriends to Buy Her 20 iPhone 7s Which She Sold to Buy a House","datePublished":"2016-10-31T22:20:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:14.210Z","description":"A true visionary","url":"https://time.com/4552453/woman-sells-20-iphones-for-house/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Apple","Funny","Culture","iphone 7"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0cfdecd774585929/6988ac600a4a2266a89cbdc8/woman-20-boyfriends-20-iphones.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0cfdecd774585929/6988ac600a4a2266a89cbdc8/woman-20-boyfriends-20-iphones.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Apple launches iPhone models 7 and 7 plus in Russia","caption":"Apple launches iPhone models 7 and 7 plus in Russia","creditText":"Anadolu Agency—Getty Images","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/4552453/woman-sells-20-iphones-for-house/","name":"This Woman Convinced Her 20 Boyfriends to Buy Her 20 iPhone 7s Which She Sold to Buy a House"}}]}] ```