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BY GLENN GAMBOA Web sales BUY THIS HALL INDUCTEES Special to amNewYork push limits Here is a look at some The rock class of 2009 odd sales from the past: Hip-hop pioneers Run- is a diverse mix. Here I DMC lead the class of of morality In 1999, bids for a “fully are the others: functional” kidney on eBay this year’s Rock and Roll reached $5.7 million before Hall of Fame inductees, I Doo-wop group Little An- BY JASON FINK the site pulled the plug. announced yesterday at thony and The Imperials [email protected] the headquarters of Fuse, I Guitar wiz Jeff Beck I Also in 1999, a U.S. fash- which will air the ceremo- I ’60s soul singer Is it a hoax? A public- ion photographer launched nies for the first time this Bobby Womack ity stunt? Or just what it a Web site purported to sell the eggs of models. The year. I Wanda Jackson looks like: A 22-year-old Darryl McDaniels, aka woman auctioning off her site claims to have racked I Bill Black DMC, was humbled by the virginity on the Internet. up $39.2 million in sales from 1999 to 2004. honor. “I’m a rap dude,” he I DJ Fontana In any case, the Califor- said. “I’m an MC from Hollis I Spooner Oldham nia woman — who goes by I Rosie Reid, 18, of London, just rockin’ the mic, and to the pseudonym Natalie sold her virginity online in be in the Rock and Roll Hall Dylan — has created an on- 2004 for $20,500. of Fame, with the Beatles, McDaniels gave a nod line sensation. She is the I In 2005, a Virginia woman and (Bob) Dylan, and the to the predecessors who latest in a line of shocking sold the naming rights rock ’n’ roll gods?” paved the way: “I share this online hawkers who are of her triplets to Golden- Metallica was another nomination and the induc- selling everything from Palace.com, an Internet heavy hitter on the list of tion and the whole award organs to human eggs. casino, for $12,000. inductees. with those cats, everyone “It’s going too far, and I Last May, a German couple “(It shows) we are part of from the Bronx and Harlem it’ll go beyond that,” said was arrested for putting the big picture,” Metallica who started this.” Katherine Ramos, 35, of their 7-month-old boy up drummer Lars Ulrich said Glenn Gamboa is a Newsday reporter. Harlem. “It all has to do for auction on eBay. of the honor. “We are a link with morality.” (COMPILED BY RYAN CHATELAIN) in a chain of everyone that’s Whether it’s the kidney come before and everyone or baby that went up for Natalie Dylan — if that is her real name — is selling a that’s come after you.” sale on eBay or the man most precious gift: her virginity. she will seal the deal at who sold everything he the Bunny Ranch, a legal owns for nearly $400,000, and fraudulent diplomas “This woman would not brothel in Nevada. the online auction craze to drugs, stolen electron- do this in her local com- “Assuming this woman has produced some star- ics and even a tortoise munity center.” is violating the laws of her tling offers and responses. that was an endangered While the ethics of jurisdiction and a man Dylan is not even the first species,” he said. selling things like organs soliciting her is violating woman to sell her virgin- Though there is noth- online can be debated, le- a law in his home state, ity online. ing novel about selling gally, there are clear rules: they are both looking for Jeremy Saland, a Man- sex, Dylan’s brazen offer If a person sells or buys trouble,” Saland said. hattan criminal defense seems emblematic of an something on the Internet Dylan says she has re- attorney, said he has seen age in which virtually that is illegal in the juris- ceived more than 10,000 the Web used for a variety anything can be sold and diction they’re doing it responses to her offer of dubious transactions. buyers easily found. from, they can be charged, since September, when “I have witnessed “In the world of cyber- Saland explained. the auction began, the people selling things space, it’s very disembod- Dylan may have entered highest bid coming in at ranging from counterfeit ied,” said David Salvage, a a legal gray area. She lives $3.7 million. Run-DMC money, fake passports Manhattan psychologist. in San Diego, but says Emily Ngo contributed to this story.