p2p news / p2pnet: Baby boys for 28,000 yuan ($3,500) and girls for 13,000 yuan ($1,600).

That was the asking price on a Communist China eBay auction, says the Associated Press.

Shanghai police were investigating and the ad was deleted shortly after it was placed Sunday and, relevant information has been turned over to investigators, a spokesman for the eBay Eachnet site said, according to the story.

Our aim is to send good news to the thousands of couples around the country who are unable to have children,” the site was quoted as saying by the Shanghai Morning Post. The newspaper said it learned of the ad from a reader.

Communist China has an active black market in babies and young women, who are bought or abducted and sold to couples who want another child, a future bride for a son or a household servant, says AP.

It has the Shanghai Morning Post saying about 50 people visited the ad before it was deleted and, It wasn’t known if anyone had contacted the seller.

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See:-
Associated Press – Chinese Police Probe Online Baby Auction, October 20, 2005

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