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Auction for a Kidney Pops Up on Ebay's SiteBy AMY HARMONPublished: September 3, 1999

Bidding for a human kidney, described on the Internet auction site Ebay as ''fully functional,'' began at $25,000 and reached $5,750,100 before the company abruptly ended the auction yesterday afternoon.

In the pantheon of bizarre items that Internet users offer for sale on Ebay -- host to about 2.6 million auctions a day -- human organs are forbidden. To buy or sell them is a felony under Federal law, and trading in illegal goods is a violation of Ebay's rules.

A second kidney auction was posted yesterday afternoon starting at $4 million but had not received any bids, The Associated Press reported.

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