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City Toilets, Sold! ...For a Measly Couple Grand

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What the city paid for four years of fancy, self-cleaning public toilets= $5 million

What it will cost the city to remove them/buy its way out of the fancy toilet contract= $820,000

What the city tried to sell them for= $89,000 each

What they finally fetched on eBay= $1,475 (Pike Place Market), $1,525 (Pioneer Square), $1,525 (ID), $2,225 (Capitol Hill), $3,050 (Waterfront).

Priceless.

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