--- title: Woman Gets Her 20 Boyfriends to Buy Her 20 iPhones For House description: This woman convinced her 20 boyfriends to buy her 20 new iPhones, which she sold to put a down payment on a house. canonical: https://time.com/4552453/woman-sells-20-iphones-for-house/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-31T22:20:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:14.210Z og:title: This Woman Got Her 20 Boyfriends to Buy Her 20 iPhones og:description: She then sold them to buy a house og:url: https://time.com/4552453/woman-sells-20-iphones-for-house/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0cfdecd774585929/6988ac600a4a2266a89cbdc8/woman-20-boyfriends-20-iphones.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Apple launches iPhone models 7 and 7 plus in Russia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Woman Got Her 20 Boyfriends to Buy Her 20 iPhones twitter:description: She then sold them to buy a house twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0cfdecd774585929/6988ac600a4a2266a89cbdc8/woman-20-boyfriends-20-iphones.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Woman Convinced Her 20 Boyfriends to Buy Her 20 iPhone 7s Which She Sold to Buy a House > Sponsored content. 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(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. 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