Auctioning Your Shoes

Start with a fabulous picture

Use a good quality picture to display your shoes you are trying to sell! I take pics of the side, front, back, and underneath. This will help to show the quality of the shoe. If there are any unique features, take close ups of them! Also, if there is any damage to your shoes, take close ups of that as well! You want your buyers to know exactly what they are buying so you don't end up having to deal with a return. Use the macro feature on your camera to accomplish this. 

Provide a description

Not only do you want your pictures to tell the story about your shoes, you should write a lot of detail about the shoes. 
Things you may want to include:

• Name of the brand of shoe
• The size of the shoe : If the shoe runs big or small, let the potential buyer know.
• Material of the shoe
• If the item is used, describe how many times the shoe has been worn, where the item is worn at on the shoe etc.  
• What packaging material comes with the box? IE If you are shipping the shoes in original box, let the buyers know.  

Remember, NO SURPRISES to your buyer. 

Set your price

Try to do some research to see what other people/sites are selling your shoes for. If it's a shoe that is very popular and cannot be found in stores, you may be able to sell it for higher than you paid. If the shoe is very worn out though, you will want to deeply discount the shoe to reflect the usage.

Now in auction, you will want to consider what is the lowest price you are willing to sell it for. On many auction sites, you can set a ceiling price as to the lowest you are willing to sell it for so you don't have to part with your lovely shoes if you don't get the price you want. 

Package it up!

Congratulations if you got the price you wanted for the shoes! Now time to package it up for your buyer. When I ship shoes I put them in a box bigger than the shoe box, and then put the air bubble packaging inside. Often times I see companies ship out shoes and not provide the extra bubble and then you end up with mashed up sides of the shoe box, NOT good.  The other tip I can offer is put some rubber bands around the box length and width wise.  This should keep your shoes safe and sound!