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Started by Still Waters , Jun 02 2011 07:34 PM

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#1    Still Waters

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Posted 02 June 2011 - 07:34 PM

www.telegraph.co.uk said:

A Chinese teenager was so desperate to acquire the new iPad 2 that he sold one of his kidneys for just £2,000 to pay for it, according to reports.

The 17-year-old boy, identified only by his surname, "Zheng", confessed to his mother that he had sold the kidney after spotting an online advertisement offering cash to anyone prepared to become an organ donor.

"I wanted to buy an iPad 2, but I didn't have the money," the boy told Shenzhen TV in the southern province of Guangdong, "When I surfed the internet I found an advert posted online by agent saying they were able to pay RMB20,000 to buy a kidney." After negotiations, the boy travelled north to the city of Chenzhou in Hunan Province where the kidney was removed at a local hospital which discharged him after three days, paying a total of RMB22,000 for the organ.

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Posted 02 June 2011 - 08:08 PM

'Just' £2000? What's the going rate for a kidney like?!
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Posted 02 June 2011 - 08:29 PM

OK, so I'm a PC rather than a Mac girl, but still... WTF!?  :hmm:
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Posted 02 June 2011 - 08:34 PM

I wonder how angry he'll be when he finds out it's just a large iPod touch.
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Posted 02 June 2011 - 08:34 PM

Hopefully the kidney is going to someone smarter than him.
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Posted 02 June 2011 - 08:40 PM

What happens when the iPad 3 comes out? You need at least one kidney...  :unsure2:
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Posted 02 June 2011 - 08:53 PM

WTF?? That's just weird...

With the rate technology goes.. He would have been better off making, er, bodily fluid donations for six months and saving up for version three.
And 2K pound is what, around 3K US right now (that's what the online calculator told me)? The guy was gypped. Underpaid for the body part.. and I just hit the apple site and a ipad with a bunch of extras came in under 2K US. Then again I am in the US and he's not, so maybe he wasn't ordering the same as I was just able to.

I can't imagine selling a kidney myself, for any reason.
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Posted 04 June 2011 - 03:54 AM

"Wanna' sell your kidney? There's an app for that."
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Posted 08 June 2011 - 09:44 AM

I blame the extremely high prices of MAC and apple goods. If they were cheaper than they are now, then this chinese boy might have not sold his kidney.
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Posted 08 June 2011 - 09:55 AM

For an apple product? Really?

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 11:08 AM

I feel sorry for him to be honest.. Poor kid...He could wind up suffering from major problems later on in life..due to this...poor guy...
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