" Well Worn Shoes "?

soolin

You need a landline to register the seller account but then you can change it immediately, and perfectly within the rules, to a mobile.

bravobeastie

geri1965 wrote: »

Each to their own. I personally find the idea of some pervy old man getting himself off to a picture of my feet to be pretty repulsive.

May not be an old man

missingink

lisa21 wrote: »

Although, I don't expect mine to go for much - after having a look at the sellers of the £285 and then the £300 shoes above, I'm pretty sure there are 'extras' included that we don't know about :eek: - have a look at their 'about me' pages.

Good lord!!!:eek: I see what you mean! Just looked at the 'gold pumps lady'....trying to work out why she appears to be standing behind a dismantled dog crate in photo #2!:rotfl:

Hezzawithkids

soolin wrote: »

You need a landline to register the seller account but then you can change it immediately, and perfectly within the rules, to a mobile.

Just opened up a second Ebay seller account and it accepted my mobile number no problem.

Hezzawithkids

Hezzawithkids wrote: »

So I finally listed my manky old slippers last night, by this morning I already have one watcher and one (very polite and innocent) - question!!!

OMG someone's just bought them for £16 !!!!! :rotfl::rotfl:
All bidding happened in the last 10 minutes and after it closed I got an email from another ebayer who lost out and was asking if I was going to be listing any more!!!! Defo onto something here......

CLLC

So you guys are selling your Worn Footwear and People are buying them??

Anyone got a link to an example listing?? Surely people do not want to buy old shoes lol

Wench

Hezzawithkids wrote: »

OMG someone's just bought them for £16 !!!!! :rotfl::rotfl:
All bidding happened in the last 10 minutes and after it closed I got an email from another ebayer who lost out and was asking if I was going to be listing any more!!!! Defo onto something here......

Haha !! Brilliant, Well done you ! :j:j

kiwi_fruit

Just read some of this thread and it made me think indeed WHY people who should we say are interested in this sort of stuff are buying it on ebay for such ridiculous money when they can visit ANY car boot and get some very worn shoes for 50p or so..? and probably even see who's been wearing them :eek: (now that's a creepy thought)

It's just so tempting now to put some of manky shoes on ebay after seeing how much they go for, feels like throwing hundrends of ££ in the bin now when throwing a pair away doesn't it..:rolleyes: don't want to ruin the account though

Also what about this bit. People are putting in descriptions "these will be cleaned and dirty photos are for advertising only etc" as you have to say that so that ebay doesn't pull the listing don't you. But then.. you obviously supposed to sedn them stinking.. so..maybe just me but I'd feel unuasy about it.. what if by any chance the buyer wasn't after "this" sort of thing ahem..you'd get yourself in not very comfy position.. as there are actually listing for very worn shoes without any pervy thought behind them(or so it looks)

soolin

kiwi_fruit wrote: »

Just read some of this thread and it made me think indeed WHY people who should we say are interested in this sort of stuff are buying it on ebay for such ridiculous money when they can visit ANY car boot and get some very worn shoes for 50p or so..? and probably even see who's been wearing them :eek: (now that's a creepy thought)

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They will pay extra as they believe they are buying from someone in that field (I'm trying to phrase this politely!). If you just buy a pair from a charity shop they are just old shoes, what the buyers want is the whole experience..a woman in the 'industry' who knows what she is doing and will pander to their fantasy. It is the thrill of knowing that both they and the seller know or even share the same thrills and get a kick out it.

There are certain code words that let them know what they are buying, 'air hostess shoes' etc..certain buyers will go for certain phrases as it is a sort of game. You need to think what sort of woman gets a mans attention, air hostesses being one of them you sit there on a plane for hours and there is this unreachable woman that you can barely even talk to so they build up a whole fantasy about it. Different shoes sell to different markets, if you go through the better auctions (before they get pulled and the users suspended) they will have different key words and attract different prices.

robinson79

Damn, there doesn't seem to be a market for well worn men's shoes