Elvis has not left the building.

Not yet, at least.

The Estes Park couple who discovered an image of The King - at least in their eyes - in a 23-pound river rock earlier this year put their hunka hunka granite on eBay this week, the 30th anniversary of Presley's death.

They set the asking price at $50,000, but later bumped it down to $20,000.

After eight days, no luck.

"No one bought it," said LaDell Alexander, the rock's owner. "I don't think the price scared anyone off. It's just that there's so much Elvis stuff on sale right now."

On eBay, the Elvis Rock competed with a medallion he wore, a Cadillac he drove and a plot of ranch land that Presley owned.

"The competition was really stiff," said Alexander, 60.

The price, she insisted, wasn't too high.

"They paid $28,000 for that cheese sandwich (which carried an image of the Virgin Mary), and I thought 'Hey, this was a big rock,' " she said.

"Ninety percent of everything we heard about it was positive," she added. "Some said we were asking too little."

One e-mail said they should've listed the rock for $20 million, Alexander said.

Because the rock wasn't just another "Virgin Mary on a tortilla chip," the e-mail writer said it should fetch more, adding that the rock would make an excellent doorstop at Presley's Graceland Mansion.

Alexander said they've enjoyed the e-mails that have drifted into their inbox from around the world since their story was picked up earlier this summer.

Media outlets from Britain, Italy, China and Japan have run the story.

The couple also was the butt of jokes on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The O'Reilly Factor.

"It was great," Alexander said.

"Not too many people get to have that 15 minutes of fame. And that was fun."

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