This week, a human egg will be given to a woman chosen from the audience at a fertility seminar.

Getting £13,000 worth of IVF treatment, the winner will be selected in a tie-up between US and British clinics to evade UK payment laws.

She will then be able to go through profiles of donors, mainly good-looking and university educated, to select one of them to donate an egg.

While a British donor can hope to get £250 for her eggs, US donors are paid £6,000 a time.

Consultants at the London Bridge Centre and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Virginia, expect that Wednesday's incident will initiate a transatlantic trade.

Mohamed Menabawey said, "You adopt an egg like you adopt a child".

The best thing about American fertility clinics is that you can be forthright about your specifications. If you desire eggs from a supermodel, you can very well buy them. But if you are that good-looking, claiming the child as your own will be a challenge at a later stage.

If you donate a few eggs, you are entitled to free IVF treatment.

However, using donor eggs is naturally deceitful. The resultant kids are normally passed off as their parents' natural children.

So, may be would-be parents can delay their plan of parenthood.