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Please help my traumatised brain..

Poppie68
Poppie68 Posts: 4,881 Forumite
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Please tell me a grotty pair of 'Well worn,scented shoes' are not what my timid mind think they are!

Just innocently browsing for shoes on eBay and I came across a pair of 'Well worn shoes' modelled by not the most attractive feet I have come across..Thought urgh surely not.....2 bids!!!!
My brain goes into overdrive and I just had to push it further didn't I...
I came across the 'Freakbay' section.....'Well worn scented shoes' with 30 bids standing at £31at the moment for a pair of cheap canvas shoes which would originally retailed at around a fiver...
I'm sooooo glad I missed that branch when the stork dropped me..
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  • pinkshoes
    pinkshoes Posts: 20,609 Forumite
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    Just ewwwwwwww.
    Should've = Should HAVE (not 'of')
    Would've = Would HAVE (not 'of')

    No, I am not perfect, but yes I do judge people on their use of basic English language. If you didn't know the above, then learn it! (If English is your second language, then you are forgiven!)
  • Poppie68
    Poppie68 Posts: 4,881 Forumite
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    pinkshoes wrote: »
    Just ewwwwwwww.




    It seems eBay is certainly catering to more than the normal weird and wonderful... The dominatrix persuasion even include a facial picture in their profile, I'm assuming so the happy recipients can put a face to the smell...
  • mrcol1000
    mrcol1000 Posts: 4,797 Forumite
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    The idea is that you watch them wearing them on their website and then buy them on Ebay. You can also request videos where they stand on different things in them.

    I regularly look for items in the "other collectibles" category and unfortunately worn shoes are one of the more tamer things people get away with selling. I do not see the appeal personally but if someone can make money out of their old shoes then good luck to them.
  • Stevie_Palimo
    Stevie_Palimo Posts: 3,306 Forumite
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    It will be sale and demand to the weird fetishes the perverts have, used underwear is a very common one for sale and for the life of me I cannot figure out why sniffing somebodies dried bodily fluids is a turn on but then hey this is the strange world we live in now.
  • thriftylass
    thriftylass Posts: 4,039 Forumite
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    edited 20 April 2016 at 3:42PM
    "weel worn trashed pumps" current bid 101.50, 16 bids. Really? Nothing sinister in the page. Might get some old shoes out of my cupboard but might leave out the return address, lol
    finally tea total but in still in (more) debt (Oct 25 CC £1800, loan £6453, mortgage £59,924/158,000)
  • Poppie68
    Poppie68 Posts: 4,881 Forumite
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    It will be sale and demand to the weird fetishes the perverts have, used underwear is a very common one for sale and for the life of me I cannot figure out why sniffing somebodies dried bodily fluids is a turn on but then hey this is the strange world we live in now.




    It's absolutely gross, maybe eBay would do as well having a spin-off site and calling it Freakbay.
  • Poppie68
    Poppie68 Posts: 4,881 Forumite
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    mrcol1000 wrote: »
    The idea is that you watch them wearing them on their website and then buy them on Ebay. You can also request videos where they stand on different things in them.

    I regularly look for items in the "other collectibles" category and unfortunately worn shoes are one of the more tamer things people get away with selling. I do not see the appeal personally but if someone can make money out of their old shoes then good luck to them.



    Now I'm going to have to look under the'other collectibles' ....in for a penny and all that..
  • Stevie_Palimo
    Stevie_Palimo Posts: 3,306 Forumite
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    "weel worn trashed pumps" current bid 101.50, 16 bids. Really? Nothing sinister in the page. Might get some old shoes out of my cupboard but might leave out the return address, lol

    You'd get more for knickers so I am led to believe.
  • thriftylass
    thriftylass Posts: 4,039 Forumite
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    Just for fun I'll put on the "trashed" plimsoles I'm wearing just now. Need to see this to believe this.
    finally tea total but in still in (more) debt (Oct 25 CC £1800, loan £6453, mortgage £59,924/158,000)
  • Poppie68
    Poppie68 Posts: 4,881 Forumite
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    "weel worn trashed pumps" current bid 101.50, 16 bids. Really? Nothing sinister in the page. Might get some old shoes out of my cupboard but might leave out the return address, lol




    I've got a shoe closet full, problem is not one pair is 'trashed,well worn or scented'....might get a sledge hammer and some horse poop then stick on.....obviously easy money.
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