Nancy Fiddler is cleaning out her garage in Sebastopol these days, which is the thing to do if your garage has a mastodon in it.

Not just any mastodon, but a full-grown one. It's among the finest examples of a fossilized mastodon in North America, and certainly the finest example of one in a Sebastopol garage.

Fiddler wants it gone. It's been in the family for 11 years, and that's long enough for the relationship to have run its course.

"This," she said, pointing to the creature that fills half the garage, "was something we felt we could let go of."

The mastodon ad began running last week. Since then, the number of bids has remained constant. There were none on Friday, none over the weekend and, as of Monday night, the running total was zero.

It could be the asking price. Fiddler set the minimum opening bid at $115,000. She figures the thing to be worth $800,000, but she is not the first person to discover that a precious family heirloom is perhaps worth less than the adoring family figured.

The family has now hired a contractor to remove the section of concrete.

The slab will then be delivered to the winner of the online auction, who is identified only as "islandoffthecoast."

An active Lutheran, Ms Serio considers the smudge a slightly odd occurrence, rather than a divine sign or miracle.

"There are some people who need this kind of thing to sort of start them on their faith journey. I don't," she said.

"That's why I don't mind parting with it."

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My passion for this solution is genuine and my zeal is not misdirected. I do not demonize any group for the actions of a few but neither do I deify any group in some misguided attempt to show my open-mindedness. I have grieved for lost friends, both American and Iraqi, military and civilian. This war is not a concept, a philosophy, or a political agenda to me. It is a highly personal issue that I have applied an objective detachment to in order to arrive at a logical conclusion.

This war has currently cost us somewhere around FOUR HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS and over 3500 American lives. My buy it now price of five million seems perfectly reasonable by comparison. I'm not even asking you to risk your life. Unfortunately, sometimes it seems that the most valuable things in life are the least valued. For this reason I am starting the bidding at only one dollar. Just to sweeten the pot a little, I will not only send you the solution but I will also make myself available to you for two hours to further explain my solution and answer any possible questions that you may have. (Transportation costs are the sole responsibility of the winning bidder if they choose to exercise this option.) If you work for a senator or congressman or a possible presidential hopeful, maybe you should get everyone at the office to chip in and purchase my solution for them. Some of them might even be able to foot the bill themselves.

The listing touts the 149,000-square-foot (13,843-sq. meter) structure's selling points, including its cathedral-like common area on the second floor, now used for special events; a 34-car, underground parking garage; and retail and office space on the ground floor. It is accompanied by 12 exterior and interior photos of the building.

Dore suggests that with some remodeling, it could house condominiums.

The auction's fine print makes it clear that the winning bid will not necessarily translate into a change of ownership for the building.

"By participating, you are not entering into a contract to purchase this property," a disclaimer on the listing says. "You are, however, expressing serious interest in the property and in pursuing contract discussions."

"I've always wanted to just get up and go," said Perry, who plans to move to California in June in search of work and a warmer climate. "Some of my family are worried about my sanity.

"I don't need all this junk. Who wouldn't want to chuck everything and hit the road?"

At first, she planned to donate a portion of the proceeds to charity. But when her original effort last week violated EBay's rules for charity listings, the company pulled the auction. Perry re-listed her auction as a straight sale and hopes to later donate money to a favorite charity, Heifer International.

As of Wednesday afternoon, there were only nine bids and a top offer of $566.66. But more than 1,000 curious shoppers have virtually sifted through her stuff. Perry said she's also received hundreds of e-mails from people who learned about the auction from news reports and are praising her for opting for a life of "voluntary simplicity."

An item described as the window and frame from where Lee Harvey Oswald shot US President John F Kennedy in 1963 has been sold at auction on eBay.

A mystery bidder paid more than $3m (£1.5m) for the item, apparently from Oswald's shooter's nest at the Texas Schoolbook Depository.

The starting price was just $100,000 but bidding was brisk and the item eventually fetched $3,001,501.

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One student next term at Oklahoma Wesleyan University may have paid a lot less for tuition than his or her classmates.

The university on Saturday kicked off an eBay auction of a year of tuition, room and board at the private college. The bidding had reached $4,425 by 11 p.m.

Bidders can buy the tuition for themselves or someone else. Among the bidders will be current students at the school, which has an enrollment of about 1,030 students.

A year of tuition, room and board at Oklahoma Wesleyan costs about $23,000. The bidding will be open through Saturday.

"I think it's a really neat idea," junior Emily Wright said. "I don't know why anybody wouldn't bid."

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As if Colorado residents don't have enough snow to dig out from, one resident is offering more for a price on eBay. Starting bids were holding steady Friday at 99 cents for snow from "Blizzard I and Blizzard II" being offered by Mary Walker. She and husband, Jim, got the idea for selling snow after shoveling mounds from two storms a week apart that together dumped more than 4 feet along the Front Range.

"I figured eBay has ghosts and all sorts of weird stuff, so why not snow?" said Walker, who teaches business workshops on employee communications.

How much snow 99 cents or whatever the winning bid gets depends. Walker's auction notice suggests avoiding shipping and handling charges by stopping by their home and picking it up -- in a dump truck.

Only 10 offerings of snow are available and the proceeds are earmarked for a used snowblower for Jim or a pair of shovels.

Two copies of the book -- which was dropped by the HarperCollins publishing house amid a flurry of controversy -- were placed on the Internet auction site and have been drawing numerous bids ever since, the newspaper said.

"If I Did It" tells a hypothetical story of how Simpson would have committed the infamous murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. O.J. Simpson was found not guilty in a sensation trial in 1995.

HarperCollins had said it would destroy all copies of the book after its parent company, News Corp., announced the book release and a TV special promoting it would be canceled. Somehow, two copies of the book found their way onto the Web site.

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Lynn Sterling, the entrepreneurial woman responsible for the posting, told police officials that she had acquired the mummy for an old friend who had worked on a demolition project 30 years ago. Lynn stated that she had spoken with an attorney regarding the matter before posting the remains.

In a comment made to the Port Huron Times, Lynn stated, "It's an anatomical, medical use skeleton. I would never have put it on (eBay) if I thought it was anything other than an anatomical, medical thing."

According to one medical examiner involved in identifying the source and identity of the mummy, the auctioned item was an intact skeleton with segments of mummified tissue.

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Student Lucy Berry won the chance to slap Ben Fillmore, 24, who had begun an auction on the eBay website to raise money for the Stroke Association UK.

Ms Berry, who used two rainbow trout, said after the slap at Hyde Park's Speakers Corner in London: "It was extremely satisfying."

Mr Fillmore hopes to raise £10,000 for the charity.

Ms Berry, who was allowed to choose the type of fish used in the slapping, said: "It is kind of a dream of mine.

One such creature is still up for sale on the auction site, the Guardian newspaper reports. The high bid, at the time of writing, is $28 (£15).

Such items regularly come up for sale on Ebay, and Dr Simon Coppard of the Natural History Museum in London is often consulted by collectors to help identify them.

Dr Coppard named the urchin Coelopleurus exquisitus because of the bright colours on its exterior. The urchin is incorrectly described as being of the species Coelopleurus interruptus on the auction page.

The zoologist said he was concerned that controls need to be put in place on the numbers of urchins up for sale, although he welcomed the interest in the subject.

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