Rio Olympics chairs have a second secret life

  Next time you feel you are moldering in your office chair, think she may have a glamorous secret history.

Since long before the start of the Olympics in Rio, an Australian company is seeking a second home to 135,000 seats, 350 portable massage tables, stools 900, 20,000 beds, 102,000 electrical items, 600 small boxes - and up to 2,500 steel bins stainless - who had brief moments of glory (or shame) in the village of Athletes or the headquarters of the competition.

But if you want a folding chair white plastic where Michael Phelps looked on sullenly, you'll also have to keep a container of more than 12 meters full of chairs.

And will have to face competition from companies around the world that usually buy these items to resell.

On Wednesday, for example, leaving a day of three-day auction period, 14 bids were made - the highest shown was US $ 5,136 - for a lot of 4,000 of these chairs valued at US $ 76,000. (With this bid, each chair would cost $ 1.28).

The Olympics in Rio is the sixth for which RGS Events, a family business in Melbourne, Australia, has provided and discarded fixtures, furniture and equipment from the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000.

This year, she has partnered with the B-Stock Solutions, US online liquidator, to get rid of some of the goods.

Most buyers who have bid on the site to "buy a part of the Rio 2016 Olympics" was the US, but were also made sales to buyers from Australia, Canada, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Spain and the United Kingdom said Howard Rosenberg, CEO of B-Stock.

Many products used during these 17 days highly televised eventually going to companies that rent furniture for parties, furniture retailers, schools, cleaning companies and event planning - and "entrepreneurs selling everything," riding a market for these items, Rosenberg said.

He said that "hundreds of containers of more than 12 meters of things" were sold. Paul Ramler, CEO of RGS Events, said more than 90 percent of the approximately 1.3 million items of Rio were booked.

Some of Rio's Olympics mobile could be used in other sporting events in South America, Ramler said; the company is in negotiations for the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.

Some products will to a large Brazilian store office furniture, Shopping Matrix.

Ideally, of this stock was used in another event in which RGS is working, the Commonwealth Games 2018 in Australia, but the storage for two years is too expensive for this to be feasible, he added Ramler.

But Ramler got something important used in a sporting event: a chair with the Royal Coat of Arms where the Queen of England sat on the real stage of the Commonwealth of Melbourne Games in 2016.

"It would be like using bad put it for sale on eBay," he said.