On eBay: Seattle's pricy toilets for $89,000?

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On eBay: Seattle's pricy toilets for $89,000?

Got $89,000 and a thing for self-cleaning toilets?

eBay and the City of Seattle have just what you need.

Three of the five Hering-Bau automatic public toilets that caused such a mess in City Hall when they were found to attract prostitutes and drug users are now officially for sale on eBay, each for a minimum price of - you guessed it - $89,000.

Here's the one installed near Pike Place Market. Let's see who makes the first bid ...

Other toilets were installed 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. They'll be locked up and surrounded with fencing Aug. 1, Seattle Public Utilities said. Whoever buys them should remove them later in the month.

A public meeting on the sales is planned for July 23 at 3 p.m., in the Bertha Knight Landes Room on the first floor of Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave.

The auction is set to close July 26.

Who will pick up what Seattle's tossed aside? We'll see.

A single stall automated toilet now goes for $200,000 to $220,000 plus on-site installation, according to Hering-Bau.

Update: This post has changed to correct the value of the public toilets, which was incorrectly cited on the toilets' eBay pages.

Posted by at July 16, 2008 3:53 p.m.
Categories: From the Internet, Politics

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#151830

Posted by Wollochet Dreams at 7/16/08 4:16 p.m.

I hope there will be follow-up articles on the purchaser(s). I mean, what sort of person types "public toilet" into eBay's search box?

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#151856

Posted by J.P. Patches Pal at 7/16/08 5:17 p.m.

Yeah, if anything this could be one of those auctions that gets exposure in the national press, which will then encourage folks to submit a lot of fake bids that will be retracted or canceled by ebay.

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#151858

Posted by unregistered user at 7/16/08 5:20 p.m.

A shining, perfect example of Liberal policy making.

Most of the sheeple, who vote in the Seattle mess, praised the 'example' of leadership, in giving the poor homeless a place to ... ahem.... dump.

We, stupid conservatives, who said, "What a bunch of liberal Crap", we chastised for being cruel.

As usual, it 'feels emotionally good', to be so humane, when as usual, liberal policies will encourage the WRONG behavior.

Just check out all the headlines and problems in the world, nation, and community.

My kids WILL NOT cold cock a innocent man and kill him because he was watering a traffic circle.

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#151898

Posted by ducttape2 at 7/16/08 8:10 p.m.

I want to know the names of all of the people who had to sign off on this boondoggle.

They should pay with their resignations.

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#151907

Posted by Panzo at 7/16/08 10:03 p.m.

I wonder how San Fransisco does it.

They have 25 public toilets and the one I used near Fisherman's Wharf a couple of years ago was clean and well-maintained.

They cost a quarter to use and free tokens are available if that's too dear.

Ad revenue pays for their upkeep.

There's a real need for these and not only for the homeless and the hookers.

Tourists routinely stop me on the central waterfront to ask if there are any public restrooms nearby.

It sucks to have to tell them, "Crap in Elliott Bay, we do when it rains real hard."

Seattle is so lame we can't even have pots to p*ss in.

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