To raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, the Mount Washington Hotel is auctioning itself off online. The winner gets the complete use of the hotel, all 200 rooms, which accommodate 500 people.

Hotel officials say the auction will begin Wednesday on E-bay and end on the 24th. The winner gets use of the hotel the night of November Ninth. The hotel puts the value of the auction at 50-thousand dollars.

The hotel says the full amount of the winning bid will be donated to the American Red Cross relief efforts.
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The Caledonian Record reports that E-bay bidders have reneged on bids to rent the entire Mount Washington Hotel for one night for Katrina Relief.

Bidding ran from Sept. 14 to 24, although no bids were posted on eBay after Sept. 15. On Sept. 23, two bidders retracted offers of $20,000 and $21,000, citing “entered wrong amount” as a reason, according to eBay’s record of the auction.

The remaining bidder had offered $19,600.

The Hotel says it will not relist and will not pursue the bidders for the rental which was to be off-season date of Nov. 9).
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