The City of Seattle spent nearly $5 million on its ill-starred self-cleaning toilets since they were installed in 2004, but they could be yours for as little as $898.88 a piece if you bid during the final day of the eBay auction.

Less cost effective than good-old-fashioned-hire-someone-to-clean-them toilets, the five steel pods – previously at Victor Steinbrueck Park near Pike Place Market, on Pier 58 at Waterfront Park, in Occidental Park in Pioneer Square, in Hing Hay Park in the International District and at 1801 Broadway on Capitol Hill – attracted too many druggies and prostitutes.

In mid-July, city officials set $89,000 as the minimum bid, listing them for the second time on August 4th. Right now, 118 total bids on the space-age water closets have driven their combined price to $6,762.76; the price of the most coveted toilet tops the list at $1,875.

One extra bonus: shipping is free.

Try to make that pencil out: the Elliott Bay toilet alone weighs 13,250 lbs.

And if you ever wondered how the cleaning works, read on:

For cleaning, the center section of the floor is tilted approximately 8 inches into the foundation tub towards the service room. A jet spray system is exposed and actuated to flush the floor with water and detergent. Cleaning frequencies can be programmed as required. After the cleaning process, the floor plate is pneumatically returned to its original horizontal position.
The toilet bowl has a movable seat made of Corian, which is pneumatically retracted into the cleaning compartment in the service room where it is cleaned with a detergent. The seat is then dried and moved back onto the toilet bowl.
Toilet bowl flushing is initiated by the user via a proximity switch. If the user does not initiate the flushing, it is actuated automatically when the user leaves the toilet facility.