Is this eBay seller pricing these vintage shoes unrealistically?

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This eBay seller is having a laugh, surely?

they're awful!

But THESE
are very nice.

This is a kink thing. I have a friend who sells manky old slippers on eBay for £100+. Absolutely disgusting, falling to bits. She buys cheap ones from Primark (fluffy and pale colours, to better show the muck) and wears them to do garden stuff, gets them really dirty and stained and flogs them. She photographs them while she's wearing them so there are plenty of foot pictures for the fetishists to 'enjoy' too. The seller here has done the same.

Perhaps there's a particular kink for 1980s auntie at a wedding dancing to Black Lace while pissed on sweet sherry shoes? If there is that's a lot to unpack.

They are certainly manky, although the seller has had a bit of an attempt to hide the insides.
(But not really…) So I do wonder if they are indeed aimed at the perv market because she could easily have bought new insoles!

So odd that it's the very same price as the shoes

This thread has reminded me why I hate looking at vintage shoes (side-eye to my historically massive size 7 trotters).

The 12 days of Christmas monstrosity is hilarious. 'Quality items' - ha ha - it's all plastic, pet.

Hahaha I’m 62 and actually remember buying these exact monstrosities in Dolcis in the 80s to go with a pink satin skirt and jacket to go clubbing ! Oh the memories! Who in their right mind would pay that!!

1585 views and still no sale 🤣

Why would you think that, @BobbiBiscuits?

1980s, I'd say. Awful then. Back in the days before footsies. A lot of sweaty, stinky
feet 🤢

Shes never sold anything for more than £10

I remember Dolcis in the 1970s. Now those were shoes ! 😊

Old shoes and clothes priced like this are usually being sold to fetishists.

Bargain - I'll take 3!

(of course not). Vile shoes, vile state of the shoes and well, I'd not pay 6p.

i am thinking that maybe perverts have no taste 🙄
got visions of these sellers items on a man who looks like a cross between Mrs Brown and Mrs Doubtfire

They are early 1990s the Dolcis logo changed in early 1990s (I have a few classics kept for posterity. )No idea why they would be worth so much .
Dolcis was High St brand so hardly rare .

If they were donated to my charity shop I'd have chucked them in the recycling bin . Ghastly 80s tat and filthy inside too.

Now that's nice but I wouldn't pay more than £25.00 for it !

Oh.

Wow.
I’d love to see the maker of this objet

Hasn't eBay started suggesting the price you should put on your items? Picked by the algorithm looking at previous sales of similar items?

I can only assume some of these previous sales were pure money laundering listings, I've come across quite a few over the years.

Dolcis were always a bit naff. Saxone were next door in our town, much better.
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You’d pay £25 for it??!! 😳

You could be right about the JSA requirements. The reason they brought in the minimum income floor for UC was that there were lots of 'self employed online traders' selling bits and pieces and making hardly any money but would then qualify for substantial UC top ups.

So now after an initial period, you need to be making at least NMW for a prescribed number of hours.

But people will still get around it because if your online trading business doesn't work you can then move onto 'mobile beautician' aka doing your mates and sister's nails or dog walking, cleaning etc.

All different businesses so presumably allowed separate build up periods.

Free postage though

I'm assuming it lights up and plays Carols ?