Apparently Its Better When You Win It

…at least according to the commercials it is. I’m talking Ebay here people. An addictive condition that is rampant in my house. One that we contracted from a house in Pearland. Sometime in the last year, CK (aka Mr. McD) introduced the Half Street fiancé to the joy that is Ebay. All of sudden the HSF started looking at things with a new eye. Boxes marked “Garage Sale” were soon replaced with closet space dedicated to Ebay items. Trips to his parents house, turned into scavenging trips where all sorts of items of value were uncovered. Without a doubt the most shocking one was the market for used tennis shoes. When the HSF (Half Street Fiance is too long to type out) was in college he worked at Nike and has (had) a huge stock of slightly used discontinued Nike’s that he acquired for a discount during his tenure there. And people eat this stuff up! Well not literally. I have no idea what they do with them. Frankly I don’t want to know. It skeeves me out much like the Ebay market for used socks does. But the HSF has made a killing on these things. The uglier the better. So far the top pair have sold for $112.50 to a guy in France. Maybe they don't know that Nike is still in business over there. There is currently an auction going on that should be very interesting. This particular pair of Jordan’s was initially dismissed as too ‘worn’ to fetch any real value on the Ebay market. But after an interesting story from CK about what ‘worn’ really could mean, HSF decided what the hell, let’s give it a whirl. They had bids almost immediately! I was in shock. These shoes are heinous. Never mind my distaste for black sneakers, they are USED! Gross.

Any one want to hazard a guess for how much these puppies go for? The closest guess will receive a Half Street Shout Out (Ebay value=$0).

Note: you might notice in the listing the revised comments regarding the Pet Free Home. This was added after I pointed out that billing our house as ‘pet free’ was in short, dishonest. Even if our Ebay items are stored in a Rip free zone.