Internet auction site eBay has cancelled the sale of a human kidney after it attracted bids up to $US800,000 in just a single day.
The kidney was being sold by a 54-year-old US citizen from Missoula in Montana who wanted to use the proceeds to support his family.
The internet site does not permit the sale of human organs and the auction was deleted as soon as it came to the notice of eBay management, the company said.
Another eBay seller tried to sell a kidney in 1999. That sale brought in bids of more than $US5.7 million before the company intervened to block the auction.
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