 | | An adult kidney for sale on www.ebay.de for a reserve price of €250.00: ''Benign renal cyst, otherwise pristine'' |
They have vowed to remove all current organ listings (of which there was a total of 7038 last year on the company's many international sites, including kidneys, livers, spleens, hearts, corneas and bone marrow) and to prevent any future auctioning of body parts.
"Our major concern is that the people selling organs are not necessarily medical professionals, and may not know how to extract and store them properly," said eBay spokesperson Chris Donlay last Monday. "Consequently, buyers could be receiving substandard merchandise and endangering their health and even their lives by undergoing transplants with the suspect tissue."
The new policies will come into force as of next week, so those wishing to offload or pick up an organ have until then to act.
Link: www.ebay.co.uk
Link: www.ebay.de
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