Bid for Elvis museum turned out to be child's play

For a little while, it seemed Wright City's former Elvis museum had found a new home.
But a young Elvis Presley fan apparently made a boo-boo when he clicked an important button on eBay last week, placing the winning $15,000 bid on all contents of the Elvis Is Alive museum in Hattiesburg, Miss.

Museum owner Andy Key said the boy's mother called him over the weekend to tell him the bid -- the only one Key received -- was a mistake. "She said her little boy had gotten on the computer or whatever and bid on it," he said.

So Key said he let her out of the deal, but now finds himself in a bind. He has relisted the museum on eBay and must sell the museum before he leaves Oct. 14 for five months of military training at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. The new auction ends Friday. Key dropped the minimum bid to $13,500.

"Something's got to happen pretty quick," said Key, 39, of Laurel, Miss. "There's a deadline, and the rent's got to be paid."

In November of last year, Key bought the collection on eBay for $8,300. It had been owned by Bill Beeny, a Baptist minister, who has since turned the building off Interstate 70 in Wright City into a mission for the needy.

Key moved the museum to Hattiesburg, Miss., but announced last week he was selling it because is he leaving for National Guard basic training.

The collection includes hundreds of photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, copies of FBI files, a drivable replica of Elvis' Cadillac, and a full-size bronze casket with a wax Elvis head attached to a fake, stuffed body.

Key said he doesn't know what he will do with the contents if he can't find a buyer

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