Since i live in Brazil, I'm already used to seeing the price of gadgets here be applied absurdly larger than the original prices out there. For this reason I say jokingly that to buy a new computer or any gadget from Apple, you need to sell a kidney or a liver or lung. In the case of an iMac, you may need to sell all three. But I never thought anyone would ever take seriously.
A Chinese student of 17 years identified only by the name of Zheng apparently was the first. He wanted an iPad 2, but its financial situation did not allow. Zheng was then contacted by an Internet company buying and selling organs which offered around $ 3,000 for his right kidney, which he readily accepted.
But the boy changed his mind. Not the operation, which would have been successfully performed on April 28, but of which wanted gadgets. He ended up using the money to buy an iPhone and a new laptop. When his mother saw the brand-new gadgets, Zheng confessed where he got the money and she reported the matter to the police, who still has no clues on how to get the company that bought his kidney.
Just like The Next Web, where I saw it the first time, I hope there has been an error in translation in this story. Or this option is confirmed, or from today, humanity is lost even as the paradigm of selling organs to buy gadgets has finally been broken.
