A party from Japan withdraws a $4.6-million bid on EBay to take Richard Poncher's spot at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park. Other top bidders have 24 hours to submit new offers.
It was a day of ups and downs when the online bidding ended Monday for the crypt above Marilyn Monroe.
Elsie Poncher, whose husband Richard Poncher is entombed in the crypt at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park, said she wanted to sell it to pay off the more than $1-million mortgage on her Beverly Hills home.
A bidder from Japan appeared to be the winner of the EBay auction, with an offer of $4,602,100 -- $100 more than the next highest bid.
But several hours after being sent an invoice, the bidder e-mailed Poncher's representative saying, "I am awfully sorry, but I need to cancel this because of the paying problem."
Thousands and thousands of articles were everywhere when the original fraud auction were underway. Now that they try to run it again with realistic terms, FAILURE!
And just as telling, only one lone article about that failure.
sleazebay is getting their money's worth out of their 7 figure PR budget.
LOS ANGELES Marilyn Monroe isn't getting a new neighbor anytime soon.
The second auction of the marble mausoleum crypt above Monroe didn't fetch any bids, according to organizer Eric Gazin of AuctionCause.com. A previous $4.6 million bid for the space fell through in August when Elsie Poncher first attempted to sell off her late husband's crypt. The new eBay.com auction required a 1 to 5 percent refundable deposit to be able to bid.
Gazin says several people were preapproved to bid on the crypt at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, but no one did during the 10-day auction. He says the family is now "weighing their options." Other celebrities laid to rest at the cemetery include Farrah Fawcett, Rodney Dangerfield, Dean Martin, Jack Lemmon and Eva Gabor.