Dubai, January 25: After one of UAE’s leading classifieds websites, Dubizzle.com, said last week it had removed a ‘kidney sale’ ad from its listings, another such advert on the same website was spotted by Emirates 24|7 this morning.
Last week, a human kidney in ‘flawless’ condition was advertised for sale on Dubizzle, for Dh200,000.
This time around, a person claiming to be in financial distress, is apparently threatening to sell his kidney if he doesn’t receive Dh80,000 in financial assistance. “Plz I need financially help up to 80000 dhrms,if there is no any one so i can sale my kidney [sic!],” said the advert.
The online ad shows the location of the advertiser as somewhere in Deira, Dubai, about 0.7kms from Al Ghurair City Mall.
While the website’s founders and owners claimed that last week’s advert had slipped through the net and was “a one-off occurrence,” it certainly wasn’t the first – or last, for that matter – bizarre ad that Dubizzle has seen.
Dubizzle.com was yet to respond to our request for a comment by the time this piece was published (we’ll update it as and when we receive a response). To Dubizzle’s credit, however, the online ad has since been removed from the listings after this website alerted it about the nature of the advert.
In the past too, there have been online adverts posted for the sale of baby cheetahs and fresh laid parrot eggs, for instance, which the website’s administrators were quick to scrap.
Bizarre online ads are nothing new, and do crop up occasionally on numerous classifieds websites across the world. Last week, eBay removed an advert for the sale of the disaster-struck Costa Concordia.
Courtesy: Emirates