Does anyone on ebay have a silver star

Converse tennis shoes were first released in the early s. After nearly a century on the market, the iconic footwear such as your old All Star shoes have become a collector's item for a variety of reasons.

You can find a variety of high-top, men's vintage Converse shoes on eBay. Converse basketball shoes for men have two distinct soles. Before , the shoe was created to be a basketball shoe. In the early s, Nike was already making a name for themselves in the shoe market and took aim at the Converse high-top to make it better for running.

As a result, Converse All Star vintage shoes after the are created with Nike's trademarked waffle sole. The earliest Converse tennis shoes were created with canvas or leather only. As the brand began to grow, so did the list of materials Converse used to make their collectible tennis shoes.

Materials used to create Converse vintage shoes include:. One of the reasons vintage Converse tennis shoes are collector's items is because of the wide array of colors offered in men's high- and low-top tennis shoes.

The iconic shoes are offered in dozens of colors but still use the original logos and trademarks. Message 10 of United States law prohibits the sale of these medals. Message 11 of Message 12 of I get that part. What I don't get is why eBay created categories for these very items. Message 13 of In response to buttercontrol. Message 14 of Message 15 of Post Reply. About this board. You can chat with other sellers about anything to do with running a business on eBay For news and more see: What's new Selling related questions?

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But how could you NOT realize that??? I'm confused. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, eBay is simply a glorified classified ad where people get worldwide exposure for their prohibited item which, in turn, leads to a blown-up bidding war outside of eBay's watchful eye. This then leads to insane dollar amounts being blown on acquiring these medals, causing the prices to sky-rocket. Those who have cared enough to read my rants in the past know I don't collect engraved anything, much less engraved Purple Hearts, but it always blows my mind to see how much money these things tend to go for.

I wish I could buy the, "I'm doing it to preserve history and honor the person who blah, blah, blah," argument, but at the end of the day, I think some people just want to end up with every single medal out there, regardless of the cost. And just like Kman just mentioned, the seller just happened to notice he had an extra engraved Silver Star lying around?

Doing these off-eBay transactions are shady, at best, and downright unscrupulous, at worst. It would be easy to register on this forum and offer the medals you can't sell on eBay, since I assume most of these medals end up in forum members collections anyway. But that would make too much sense.

Why offer something here for a couple of hundred dollars when someone will throw a couple of thousand dollars at you in an email. To say nothing of the fact that many of these people stumble upon these medals at estate or garage sales at low prices, or swindle some poor elderly person, be it a widow or the veteran, only to make a killing further down the line. Don't take this as a slam, because I do mostly agree with you, BUT In this case here -- sure, a second identical set of engraved medals -- BS flag goes up immediately.

It just confuses me sometimes when collectors say that nobody is honoring or valuing these things and at the same time griping about the outrageously high prices. Likewise, a seller has to get his top dollar for stuff, and it's a good thing they're starting to realize there's value to old war stuff, as a lot of it was simply tossed into the trash the families would throw out the medals and uniforms and gear and stuff, and keep the old pillow covers and service star pins.

The sellers are banking on the "where else are you gonna find it" mentality, which is making some guys overspend on questionable stuff. No, no, no. Don't misinterpret what I wrote, and I apologize for seeming to paint everyone with the same brush. Most, if not all, collectors on here don't fit that particular category.