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Selling smelly shoes to fetish people?

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ChocolateWillies · 07/11/2019 12:42

I didn't know where to put this so I put it in chat.

I've obviously namechanged.

A couple of weeks ago I posted something on Twitter about still wearing a pair of 20-year old shoes. Today a man (I assume) had DMed me. I looked into the account and the tweets are a bit seedy but not problematic. I think he's a 'submissive' and has a few interactions calling women 'mistress'. He also has a few others where he'll comment on a woman's post about shoes basically saying along the lines of 'I'll pay £50 for your shoes. Can I DM you'.

I'm hard-up ATM, I could do with extra cash.

You know where this is going....

Has anyone had experience of selling their old shoes to people with a fetish? I've read a couple of articles but I could do with a conversation about this. I remember a thread a few years ago on this but I can't find it now.

I could really do with the money from this but feel a bit weird.

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formerbabe · 07/11/2019 13:21

One week she made well over £800

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ChocolateWillies · 07/11/2019 13:23

I'm waiting for a message back but I kind of wish I hadn't posted this now.. you bitches need to get the fuck off my patch!

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theoriginaltms · 07/11/2019 13:24

Haha no chance thanks

Sweetpeach3 · 07/11/2019 13:25

Brilliant! Money is money. Sell them old smelly shoes woman!!! We're do we sign up? 😂😂

katseyes7 · 07/11/2019 13:26

l once listed a pair of women's sandals (new ones) on ebay. l got a private message from a man asking if l had any photos of them "on the feet".
l replied saying "The photos l've listed are the only ones l have. They don't fit me, which is why l've listed them".
Which was a lie, but l had no intention of pandering to him. lt's relatively harmless, really, compared to what some people are like, l suppose.

Gottobefree · 07/11/2019 13:26

Worn shoes, especially trainers are a MASSIVE fetish market !

I've known friends and even colleagues who have done it before. Honestly it's fine, just try to keep your private details private and get payment first through a cash app! Make some money girl

theoriginaltms · 07/11/2019 13:28

If some fetish bloke wants photos of them on my feet I'll charge him extra 😂 if there's money to be made why not. I'm going to rummage in the back of wardrobe

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ChocolateWillies · 07/11/2019 13:29

Honestly it's fine, just try to keep your private details private and get payment first through a cash app! Make some money girl

He messaged me on Twitter so he knows who I am! Yikes.

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jamesforagirl · 07/11/2019 13:30

I'm in. Take my smelly shoes and give me ya money!!

picklemepopcorn · 07/11/2019 13:31

Someone who regularly did this and explained it on here, said that she has regular customers. They pay well but expect a little more- a message about what you've been doing in the shoes, a photo of the shoe on your foot, etc.

DobbyLovesSocks · 07/11/2019 13:31

There is a reason it's 'the oldest profession in the book'. People will pay ridiculous money for anything remotely sexual.
If you can make a bit of money and no-one is being harmed (forced, co-erced etc) why not?

I remember watching a programme a few years back about a woman who ran a sex line and one of her 'regulars' would phone up to hear her panting and moaning so she would do a workout over a bluetooth headset. One week she repainted her hallway whilst she was 'talking' to him.

sorrythisusernameisinuse · 07/11/2019 13:32

I wouldn't say you're not giving him the ones he asked for he'll never know and a smelly shoe is a smelly shoe right?

MamTDM · 07/11/2019 13:32

My friend made a tidy little income as a student selling used hair elastics to some bloke in Denmark! I have no idea how this came about and I don't want to think about what he did with them, but he paid her about £20 for each one. She just used to use them for a couple of days, make sure there were a few hairs caught up in them and then post them off to him - did it for about two years!

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ChocolateWillies · 07/11/2019 13:41

I wouldn't say you're not giving him the ones he asked for he'll never know and a smelly shoe is a smelly shoe right? Well I named them you see. I said something like "I'm still wearing 20 year old Hunters wellies" so he'll be pretty shocked when a pair of £2 Primark ballet pumps show up at his door!

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LemonGingerCakes · 07/11/2019 13:42

I’d be worried about someone stealing my dna! (Don’t know why, though - just the thought freaks me out!)

ffswhatnext · 07/11/2019 13:42

People want to buy my old smelly things. Why not?
You would be surprised what people want to buy.
I've had my use from them. I'm going to sell anyway, and it saves the hassle of cleaning the thing. And as long as you send them what you are selling, they don't mind there's a tiny hole is something even when it's been mentioned 😂

Still smells of cigarette excellent.
Tights got a hole in them awesome.
That annoying single sock forget sock puppets 🤣

I've listed things because of dry clean only and over a year I could have bought something else. So I flog it instead unless I really, really like it then it's worth paying to clean it.

Loads of info about how to do it online. I've been doing it for years. The boundary-pushing perves I block them. Sometimes before that I tell them to fuck off. I am very, very clear in the listing what is included. So a shoe might come with a picture wearing it. But only if I decide to do it and it's mentioned in the listing. Even with shoes, I don't give a pic with everyone I sell. It took me a lot of time to make it a proper success and now the pushers are few and far between.

What got me into it?
I was pissed off with an ex. He wouldn't come and get his stuff and given a dealine otherwise I would flog it. Since he'd left, none of his things went in the wash. And I listed them in an unwashed condition. Made more fucking money out of a dirty pair of his boxers than I did than 4 pairs of clean jeans, and one still had the label on.

Over the years, friends who know, have given me some awesome stuff to sell just out of amusement. Thinking no-one will buy that 🤣 Yes mates get the profits, and they give me a commission. And before you all wonder, they give me them in those sealable bags.

leasedaudi · 07/11/2019 13:44

But how do you avoid the buyer knowing your name if they pay on PayPal ?

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ChocolateWillies · 07/11/2019 13:49

I’d be worried about someone stealing my dna! (Don’t know why, though - just the thought freaks me out!)

Weirdly I actually work in the DNA field. This isn't a concern

Is there a market for manky old slippers? Mine are literally falling apart and fucking reek.

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WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 07/11/2019 13:55

He might be completely above board and this is his lovely way of showing a little kindness; i.e. he hears you're wearing ancient shoes, thinks you must be really down on your luck and so offers to give you £50 to help you out a bit, with the cover story of buying your worthless, pongy old shoes from you rather than it being a straight handout to avoid embarrassing you.
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In the real world, though, he's definitely a pervy old perv

ffswhatnext · 07/11/2019 13:57

You chose your payment methods wisely. I haven't used PayPal for a long time though. Because they also have the same thoughts.

When you're doing it on Ebay, it is risky because there is an element of trust. But that's where you have to start. And unless you already have good positive feedback, stuff goes low. There are whole communities around this, and as long as you don't fuck them over, when you move away from ebay those ebayers will follow you. And Paypal is no longer an issue. But it takes time, especially because there's loads of choice from already trusted sellers. When I accidentally fell into it, it was a lot easier. But at the end of the day, what have you lost? You were selling it anyway.

Read the t&c's carefully of how you are going to be taking payments. Some company have a clause preventing this type of sale.
Same with any web presence you are using.

Learn from rookie mistakes and think if you want to keep both sides separate. If you do, you can have more than one account (not sure about ebay though)

ffswhatnext · 07/11/2019 14:00

Is there a market for manky old slippers? Mine are literally falling apart and fucking reek.

Yes, there is. Seriously.

If you want to get into it. Search online to get ideas on how to sell. This is the type of thing why browsers have incognito. Forget about surprising someone with a present lol.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 07/11/2019 14:00

Surely you'd have to factor in the cost of including some complimentary Zoflora in the parcel, wouldn't you - or, in extreme cases, a can of VIPoo?

Unless you're an animal, that is

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 07/11/2019 14:03

This is the type of thing why browsers have incognito. Forget about surprising someone with a present lol.

That's very narrow-minded of you, assuming that the two things are necessarily exclusive of each other. Did it not occur to you that pervs like to receive surprise soiled birthday and Christmas gifts too?

ActualHornist · 07/11/2019 14:11

Omg I have disgusting feet and shoes I think I’ll try this.

picklemepopcorn · 07/11/2019 14:18

How do people pay, then?

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