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Chinese Baby Up For Auction Online
An uncle in the city of Zhangsu in Jiangxi Province placed this ad on the online store aggregator Taobao.com last week.
It seems innocent enough until you realise the lot up for auction is the baby. That’s right, and bidding starts at just ¥1, with shipping included.
The man, identified in the advert as Mr Hu, explains he was prepared to send his niece into the unknown “because we want a boy, therefore decided to give (her) away to family of fate”.
And he doesn’t stop there, the advert comes with a whole spec like a second hand car. We’re told the baby’s father has good health and a college education, and that the baby’s mother has fair skin and big eyes. The “kid’s also got the big eyes,” the ad continues, “very cute, hope everyone will think for the child”. Sincere buyers could meet the girl in person, it concluded.
After the issue exploded onto the Chinese webverse, Taobao located the page, removed it and shut down the man’s account.
Mr Hu, of course, was unrepentant. He told Chinese media that the family was extremely poor, and that they had always wanted a boy and his brother-in-law was the only son in the family.
Before now, the 25-year-old said – without a shred of irony, that he only used Taobao to sell household items he didn’t want anymore, like DVDs and alarm clocks.
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An uncle in the city of Zhangsu in Jiangxi Province placed this ad on the online store aggregator Taobao.com last week.
It seems innocent enough until you realise the lot up for auction is the baby. That’s right, and bidding starts at just ¥1, with shipping included.
The man, identified in the advert as Mr Hu, explains he was prepared to send his niece into the unknown “because we want a boy, therefore decided to give (her) away to family of fate”.
And he doesn’t stop there, the advert comes with a whole spec like a second hand car. We’re told the baby’s father has good health and a college education, and that the baby’s mother has fair skin and big eyes. The “kid’s also got the big eyes,” the ad continues, “very cute, hope everyone will think for the child”. Sincere buyers could meet the girl in person, it concluded.
After the issue exploded onto the Chinese webverse, Taobao located the page, removed it and shut down the man’s account.
Mr Hu, of course, was unrepentant. He told Chinese media that the family was extremely poor, and that they had always wanted a boy and his brother-in-law was the only son in the family.
Before now, the 25-year-old said – without a shred of irony, that he only used Taobao to sell household items he didn’t want anymore, like DVDs and alarm clocks.
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. anyway its a hurting truth 
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