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£3 school shoes

bajr1661 — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:37:06 GMT

Hi I resently bought my son some new plain black lace up plimsolls after his old ones were a bit worse for wear. He wears them as school shoes his school has a quite basic uniform school jumper school polo shirt black school trousers and school shoes or lace up plimsolls.
How much did you spend on school shoes ???

Re: £3 school shoes

double_o_heaven — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:55:51 GMT

Firstly, why have you posted this rather bizarre question on more than one part of the forum?

And secondly, what is the relevance of it to ebay?

If you are trying to flog us all plimsols, then advertising isn't allowed on these boards 😉

Re: £3 school shoes

bajr1661 — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:39:02 GMT

I'm not advertising I was just wondering how much people spent

Re: £3 school shoes

double_o_heaven — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:43:47 GMT

@bajr1661 wrote:
I'm not advertising I was just wondering how much people spent

On an ebay forum.

Do you buy your plimsols on ebay?

Re: £3 school shoes

bajr1661 — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:53:44 GMT

Yes somtimes but the last pair I bought my son were quite bad so I buy him primark ones at the minute

Re: £3 school shoes

tressygirl — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 06:03:01 GMT

One thing I must congratulate you on. You opened this account yesterday, no activity on the account, and you found these boards straight away.

Most ' newbies ' cannot even find the fee structure / rules of sale / or the Resolution Centre on here straight away.

Re: £3 school shoes

canvas_demon — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:14:55 GMT

Why not post this on Mums Net? You will no doubt get many relevant replies.

Re: £3 school shoes

mr._standfast — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:13:01 GMT

I'm not alone in wondering at the reason for so many posts on the same rather inconsequential issue, with a new account. It might be entirely innocent - a desire for social contact perhaps. But this is primarily a board for buyers to seek advice on problems with sellers or eBay procedures.

Re: £3 school shoes

clogher21 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:36:28 GMT

Just a wandering trolling idiot. Wouldn't mind if it was amusing, but it's just stupid. Everyone knows that Primark are on a par with Harrods.

Re: £3 school shoes

mr._standfast — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:21:58 GMT

@clogher21wrote:
Just a wandering trolling idiot. Wouldn't mind if it was amusing, but it's just stupid. Everyone knows that Primark are on a par with Harrods.

Harrods don't. I saw no reason for abuse. But at the worst, there could have been only one trolling idiot.

Re: £3 school shoes

**bustysinclaire** — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:30:40 GMT

Oh dear, its catching ☹

Re: £3 school shoes

tressygirl — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:41:02 GMT

@mr._standfast wrote:

I'm not alone in wondering at the reason for so many posts on the same rather inconsequential issue, with a new account. It might be entirely innocent - a desire for social contact perhaps. But this is primarily a board for buyers to seek advice on problems with sellers or eBay procedures.

At least this thread has been removed from the selling and buying forums, where it first appeared on both, and placed in the right place here, for a 'chat'.

The OP may now get some answers and discussion to her question ?

Re: £3 school shoes

1956glyn — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:34:58 GMT

Ok here is my answer

Do not buy children cheap shoes. Ideally get their feet properly measured etc and buy them decent leather shoes for school. Even if it means buying from a Charity shop or 2nd hand off Ebay once you know their correct size and width.

If on a very limited budget save money by buying 2nd hand clothes etc but personally i would only ever buy brand new shoes for a child.

Average cost of my sons shoes were £25 to £30 and he is now an adult.

Re: £3 school shoes

tressygirl — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:43:03 GMT

Agree fully with glyn's reply. Also surely on eBay it only takes a few moments to go through children's shoes, narrowing it down to the correct size, you never know your luck in coming across a new pair bought by someone and never worn/ barely worn for whatever reason.

Re: £3 school shoes

bajr1661 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:00:51 GMT

Money is no issue my son choses to wear plimsolls over proper school shoes. I would buy him vans but they are not allowed as the school only allows cheap plimsolls so my son wears the cheap style plimsolls as school shoes

Re: £3 school shoes

tressygirl — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:43:32 GMT

I'm sure we have all experienced our kids with their preferences over sense and sensibility!

He's comfortable, so that's all that matters

Re: £3 school shoes

bajr1661 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:55:28 GMT

I agree he likes wearing them and has Done since he started secondary school last September

Re: £3 school shoes

esme7crom0 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:24:38 GMT

Use the black “road slappers” as my army hubby would say 😂 for the little ones PE at primary but buy kickers usually for school shoes although they still seem to come home with “talking shoes” after a few months of wear 🙄

Re: £3 school shoes

bajr1661 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:02:21 GMT

My sons old plimsolls were literally like that look like they could' talk lol

Re: £3 school shoes

soppysofty — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 08:44:23 GMT

Wearing plimpsolls for any extended period of time will cause the feet to grow in a flat and broad manner and cause the wearer to walk with a flatfooted gait.

Plimsolls provide no structure or form for growing feet and, as such, are probably the worst item of footwear that anybody under 16 can wear.

He may be happy now but in 10 to 20 years time when he has a list of foot injuries as long as your arm and requires extensive surgery so that he can wear 'proper' shoes and walk without considerable pain I am sure he will thank you for your tolerance now.

Plimpsolls use to be worn for gym wear many years ago but even that purpose has been rendered null and void after people saw the damage that plimpsolls do to young feet.

Your child, your choice!