The Olympics, like all big one-time events, requires temporary infrastructure -- but what will happen to it all after the Games? CTV Consumer Reporter Chris Olsen is on your side sniffing out post-Olympic bargains.
It takes thousands of people behind the scenes to put on the Games, and everyone needs a place to sit down and work.
Once the Olympics are over, it's Jeremy Dodd's job to find a new home for the furniture.
Dodd says throughout the month of March roughly 15,000 pieces of near-new office furniture will be rounded up in the Metro Vancouver.
"We'll have about 1400 desks, probably about 1,000 book shelves and 1,000 storage cabinets, all matching the desks," he said. "About 7,000 chairs coming in, a couple thousand folding tables and all sorts of office furniture."
Most of it will be barely used – including chairs sat in for about one month. And the price?
"We've got desks that would normally retail for $350 that we'll be looking to sell for $75 or $80," Dodd said. "Chairs that would cost $150 will be going out at $30 to $40. We'll be pricing it very aggressively because there is a lot of product to move."
The sale is scheduled to begin in early-to-mid April. As a legacy of the Games, it might not be the Olympic Oval – but it might just be more valuable to some of B.C.'s small businesses.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Chris Olsen
