Yiwu'S Second-Hand Shoe Market Meets The Famous Brand Dream Of Low Income Consumers

November 24th, used cars, second-hand housing, second-hand necklace rings, these terms are commonly used, but have you ever seen anyone selling second-hand shoes? There are such second-hand shoe stalls in Yiwu, and most of them are sold.

Because of the low price, the second-hand shoe market has become a part of low income people's way to realize the famous brand dream.

However, some readers doubt that these shoes are not genuine brands and question the source of shoes.

Second hand shoes, many night markets have a pair of Nike as long as sixty or seventy yuan.

Walking into the night market near the station of the Qin Tang passenger station in Yiwu, a long slide of eight or nine shoe stalls occupied a large part of the night market, especially eye-catching.

On the evening of November 17th and the evening of 19, the two reporters came here to interview.

When a reporter looks at his shoes, a middle-aged man wearing an ear sleeve immediately greets him, "what size is it?"

Middle aged men say that most of these second-hand shoes are only one pair, and the size is not good enough. Even if the customers are interested in shoes, they can not get second pairs.

The reporter chose a pair of white Anta shoes that looked like seven or eight into new ones. The middle-aged men offered a price of 55 yuan and the counter-offer to 50 yuan.

Reporters learned that this style of new Anta shoes, in the exclusive store selling price of 260~270 yuan.

The other seven or eight pairs of new Nike running shoes cost only $65, and the shoes are generally sold at four hundred or five hundred yuan in the exclusive stores.

Lining sports shoes are almost the same price, and some shoes are priced at more than 100 yuan.

About 150 pairs of shoes are on this shoe stand, about half of which are famous brand shoes at home and abroad. The brands include many famous brands, such as Jordan, Puma, Lining, Nike and so on. Shoes include basketball shoes, sports shoes, mountaineering shoes, running shoes, leisure board shoes, leather shoes, and the other half are not famous shoes.

The middle-aged man told reporters that his most expensive second-hand shoes are hundreds of yuan and a pair, most of them are fifty or sixty yuan and a pair, some shoes or shoes with a little difference, as long as twenty or thirty yuan a pair.

In addition to the night market in front of the road, the night market in bainun Road, Yiwu, the reporter also found 3 second-hand shoe stalls, its business model is similar to the night market before the station.

Second hand shoes are favored by low-income people. Some peddlers can sell 20 pairs a day.

Do you buy second-hand shoes? Yes, the answer is yes.

At 7 p.m. on November 17th, the reporter came to the night market before the station. In just two hours, many people came to buy second-hand shoes.

A young man who worked in a nearby shopping mall changed several booths and finally bought a pair of leather shoes for 70 yuan.

A man surnamed Ma introduced that he is now earning more than 2000 yuan a month, and he usually goes to a specialty store to buy designer shoes.

He is still very keen to see such cheap brand shoes in the night market.

"These shoes are very comfortable to wear."

Mr. Ma said that according to his experience, the shoes were genuine.

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From 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock that evening, the reporter saw four or five people in front of the first stall to see them. Most of them were ordinary workers.

"Although these shoes are old, but they are good quality, take them back and wash them well. Who knows whether they are new shoes or old shoes?" a stall owner said, most of them came from migrant workers, men, women, old and young, and some people who looked like the boss.

Their daily turnover ranges from 100 yuan to several hundred yuan, with more than 20 pairs of shoes sold for the highest day.

At 9 p.m. on November 19th, Yiwu's bekun road night market.

A man from Shandong, surnamed Han, bought 3 pairs of casual leather shoes at a second-hand shoe stand in Yantai.

Mr. Han is a freight driver who runs from Yantai to Yiwu agricultural trade city. He has to run two or three times a month. He saw a second-hand shoe stand once a year ago, and then he often patronized him.

"This leather shoes are famous brand, genuine leather, only fifty or sixty yuan a pair, it is very cost-effective.

I am an old customer. I want to wear a couple of pairs to the elderly at home this time.

Anyway, the old people are not particular about them. They are good enough to wash their shoes.

Mr. Han also warmly recommended to reporters.

The source of secondhand shoes is a mystery.

So many stalls, selling dozens of pairs of second-hand shoes every day, whether shoes are genuine, where is the source? This is a concern of many people.

What is more, they suspect that these second-hand shoes are stolen.

In the interview, the reporter consulted the booth owner.

Hu, the owner of the night market at YiWu Railway Station, said they had fixed access channels and shoes were genuine.

"If they are fake shoes, they will not come home early?" asked Hu sister.

She did not want to disclose more about the purchase channel, but said that if someone had good second-hand shoes for sale, they would also buy it.

The reporter proposed to sell Anta sports shoes on their feet for more than a year.

Hu bought a bid of 10 yuan, and said that it would not exceed 20 yuan at most.

"We don't want every pair of shoes. We need to look at the old and new shoes. Two, we need to see the extent of the vamp's breakage. We don't want it to be too broken."

Hu said that the price of the pair of shoes was forty or fifty yuan.

Reporters carefully identified, although some old shoes feel good quality, but still difficult to distinguish between true and false.

The stall owners are reluctant to disclose the real purchase channels.

"When some wealthy people buy new shoes, they throw their old shoes in the exclusive stores, and we go to the stores to buy them."

After several inquiries, a woman revealed.

On the evening of November 19th, the reporter went to Nike store in beigun Road, Yiwu, Jordan sports shoes and Anta stores in Chou Chou road. The sales staff of Nike store and Jordan store said there was little.

A salesperson at Anta store said that when guests bought new shoes, they could throw their old shoes into the trash can at the door, and they might be picked up.

Mr. Wang, who sells second-hand shoes at bekun road night market, is from Quzhou.

He said that most of the shoes on the second-hand shoe stalls came from Wenzhou, because the shoe market there was developed and there were more second-hand shoes.

Although the stall owners deny that there are stolen shoes on the stalls, there are also stall owners who privately say that if anyone wants to sell stolen brand shoes, they will not refuse.

Second hand shoes are inexpensive but should be alert to infectious diseases.

Speculation on second-hand shoes may be stolen goods. Yesterday, reporters also asked the Yiwu police about the situation.

A police officer who did not want to be named said that he had actually received such alarm before his shoes were stolen, but in recent one or two years, such kind of alarm is rare.

"The value of a pair of shoes is limited, and even if it is stolen, few people will report it."

He said that the possibility of second-hand shoes as booty is not great.

In the interview, there are also people saying that second-hand shoes have bigger health risks.

In this regard, Han doctor of Chou Chou hospital in Yiwu said that wearing second-hand shoes can easily cause beriberi, onychomycosis and other diseases.

In comparison, beriberi is still a good treatment. If you get onychomycosis, not only the cost of medical treatment is relatively high, but also the treatment cycle is longer, the possibility of recovery is very small.

"There are some fungi on second-hand shoes that can't be completely removed."

Dr Han reminded the public that buying second-hand shoes should be especially alert to infectious diseases.