“The iPhone 6s is so anxiously awaited in China that sperm banks are using it to lure donors,” Scott Cendrowski reports for Fortune.
“Two sperm centers posted messages on the country’s Facebook analogue, Tencent’s WeChat, this week encouraging men to donate so they have the cash to buy the new Apple phone that is expected to retail for about $1,000 in mainland China,” Cendrowski reports. “‘You don’t need to give up a kidney to raise cash to buy an iPhone 6s as you can get enough money just by donating sperm!’ the advertisements said, according to the South China Morning Post.”
“In central Hubei province, the going rate for samples from some young to middle-aged men was 5,000 yuan ($800),” Cendrowski reports. “The old iPhone 6 Plus sold for $300 dollars less in Hong Kong than mainland China and drove smugglers to find ever more inventive ways to hide phones while crossing the border. It may not be surprising, then, that sperm banks are joining the hype.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Listen, iPhone 6s is great and all, but if the thought of having one makes you… Uh… Hey, we love iPhone 6s as much as anybody… well, maybe not quite that much.
Seriously, $800 is $800. Go get ’em, Tigers!
SEE ALSO:
China sentences leader of ‘iPad for Kidney’ gang to five-year prison term – November 30, 2012
‘Kidney for iPad’ trial begins in China – August 10, 2012
Chinese teen offers her virginity for iPhone 4 – June 28, 2011
Chinese boy sells kidney to buy an iPad 2 – June 2, 2011
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
“Chinese sperm banks use iPhone 6s to stimulate donations”… Is there an app for that?!?
Ever since the 1-child policy was instituted in 1980, the male-to-female ratio of the 35-and-under generation is heavily skewed male. (Because if Chinese parents can only have one child, they prefer it to be male.) So why do young women in China really need to go to sperm banks to get pregnant? The country should be literally awash in sperm.
Customers are expected to come in large numbers.
So wait – are the guys going to be jerking off to pictures of the iPhone6S or do they also get to touch them?
So many jokes, so little time.
You don’t want to know about the woman that wanted in on the deal!
i can’t take part. I’m overdrawn at the sperm bank.
There is all sorts of wrong with that title…
I assume the taptic engine is involved.
wow, talk about a setup
Buying used iPhones now completely turns me off.
I like it