How to sell shoe care
How To Clean Sneakers to RESELL for the MOST Profit!
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today i'm going to show you how to turn
a shoe worth about 45 into a sneaker
worth about 200
what's up everybody i'm seth fowler and
today i'm going to show you how i take
sneakers that i buy at flea markets and
thrift stores and goodwills and i clean
them up and make them turn from
something like this to something that i
can actually resell and make a profit on
so the reason i decided to make this
video is because on my series the 20
sneaker collection which if you guys
haven't seen yet you definitely need to
check it out there'll be a link to the
playlist at the top of the screen but i
buy sneakers like this all the time in
fact that entire series is about buying
used sneakers cleaning them up and then
reselling them for more money and so
this is something that i do on an almost
daily basis i buy sneakers that look
like this for like 20 or 30 bucks i
clean them up and then resell them for
hopefully a decent profit now obviously
the shoe is in worse condition than most
of the shoes that i buy on the series
and the reason for that is because i
just want to show you guys how i clean
up sneakers in the worst condition
usually though i do try and buy sneakers
somewhere between this and like brand
new or in some cases i can grab sneakers
for brand new for great prices i'll grab
those too but i try and find something
in the middle that either doesn't need
any work or doesn't need that much work
because as we all know time is money and
the less time i can spend on cleaning up
sneakers to resell the more time i have
to actually resell those sneakers so to
give you guys an example of the kind of
condition that i buy sneakers and to
resell it's usually somewhere in between
here and here and here so for example on
the last episode i picked up this pair
of iversons which is essentially brand
new it's still got paper inside the toe
the sneaker and the outsole i mean looks
like it's maybe been tried on and then
on the same episode i actually picked up
the spare yeezys which looks pretty good
from the top but when you look at it
from the bottom it's pretty big like the
outsole is worn it's very very brown on
the boost which unfortunately you can't
do too much about and weirdly enough the
size tag is actually worn completely off
now i still think the shoe is authentic
but uh it is kind of weird that the size
tag is worn off and it took me a little
bit of time to actually figure out
exactly what size this was but generally
my criteria for buying sneakers to
resell is the first obviously being will
the sneaker actually make me any money
like is it a good enough price to where
i can flip it and still make a decent
profit on it and two is the condition of
the sneaker something that i can fix or
make any better for example with this
shoe this is about as good as the
sneaker is going to look the problem
with this shoe is obviously the fact
that there's so much wear on the outsole
and when rubber is worn like this you
can't fix it whereas this shoe doesn't
have a huge amount of resale value but
because i got it for such a good price
and it's brand new it should be very
easy to flip very quickly so i barely
have to put any work into the sneaker to
get some profit from it and then we get
the sneakers like this this is a jordan
3 it's a great sneaker it's a good
colorway but it's very very dirty and
the good news about this sneaker is that
it's not too worn there's a little bit
of star loss on the toe a little bit of
heel drag on the heel but that's about
it the upper of the shoe is in pretty
good shape other than the fact that it's
incredibly dirty so this is definitely a
kind of sneaker that i would grab
because i know that i can clean the
sneaker up i know i can resell it for a
lot of money and it's worth putting in
like 20 30 minutes into cleaning this
sneaker because i could make probably a
150 to maybe 200 profit so in today's
video i'm gonna show you guys how i go
about cleaning sneakers like this a
relatively easy sneaker to clean show
you guys the steps that i take and of
course the products that i use this
video is sponsored by rejuvenator so i
should just let you know that but even
if i wasn't sponsored by reshubenator
i'd still be using their products and
i'd still be showing you guys how to
clean the sneaker with those products
regardless so before we dive into this
let's just take a quick look at the
sneaker and see generally what we're
working with so the upper of the shoe is
very very dirty obviously pretty muddy
you've got a lot of mud in the laces
which means we're gonna have to clean
the laces the leather upper shouldn't be
too hard to clean we should be able to
just use a brush and just kind of scrub
it down the elephant print might be a
little bit difficult to get all the dirt
out of and of course the midsole and
around the air bubble has some uh some
creases in places that dirk can hide
that we're gonna have to kind of scrub
into um the insole of the shoe is kind
of dirty as well so i'm probably going
to throw these in the washing machine um
so i'll show you guys that process as
well and then the outsole surprisingly
not too bad most of the dirt kind of
just fell off the outsole so that's good
but uh yeah we're definitely gonna have
our work cut out for us to make these
shoes look as good as they can look okay
so the first step that i'm gonna take
while cleaning the sneaker is actually
put a shoe tree inside of it so that it
won't lose its shape while i'm scrubbing
at it and throwing it in the washing
machine so i've got this reshoevnator
shoe tree i think it should be about the
right size if not i can adjust it
yeah it's too big
let me make it a little bit smaller i
think this is a size nine so for a size
nine this isn't an exact science but
like i like to use the uh the fourth
notch maybe
let's see if that works
i'm giving advice without knowing for
sure there we go okay perfect so fourth
notch fifth notch whatever you wanna do
so here it is the shoe with the shoe
tree inside so next what i'm going to do
is actually get a bowl of water which
we've got right here i'm going to put it
next to my right hand because it's a
little bit easier to get to
and then i've got my rejuvenator
cleaning solution right here and then i
also want to grab a soft bristle
reshoevenator brush and what i'm going
to do is actually put some resouvenator
cleaning solution into this water a
couple drops
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and then i'm going to take this soft
bristle brush kind of mix it around in
the water
to get as much solution and water on
there as possible and then start
scrubbing the shoe and i'm gonna start
with a soft bristle brush first to kind
of get all the high level dirt off and
then if there's still some dirt left
over we'll go back in with a medium
bristle brush but we're gonna start with
a soft bristle and see what happens and
the key here is to just get as many
bubbles as possible because bubbles
i don't know how but equals clean let's
just start scrubbing away
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man it's pretty dirty
it's a lot dirtier than i expected
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i'm even gonna scrub the laces too
that's something that you want to do
because that'll start loosening up the
dirt and then when you throw the laces
in the washing machine it'll help take
out the rest of the dirt
also doesn't hurt to put down a blanket
or something on the table because this
is going to get very very dirty
as you guys can see and for a shoe like
this that's all leather with a couple
new buckets but nothing major
it doesn't matter if you get it wet with
nubuck shoes you definitely want to use
a completely different process and if
you guys want to see me talk about that
at all let me know in the comment
section i'll do a whole nother video on
um nubuck and other materials but let me
know in the comments this is just for a
standard like leather shoe like an air
jordan or a uh i don't know new balance
550 or something like that
a shoe that i like
it's actually looking pretty good after
this initial scrub down not too bad
let's get the bottom a little bit for
the bottom i like to use a hard bristle
brush or a stiff bristle brush so i'm
just kind of this is unnecessary to do
it with a soft bristle brush and
actually might even be a bad call
because i might get some dirt on the
upper that i didn't want to so maybe
don't do that
and then for the inside of the shoe we
can actually scrub a little bit with the
soft bristle brush on the sock liner
because the sock liner is ah
man i should have worn a white shirt
today
that was a bad call so for the sock
glider you can scrub with your brush
because it's gonna get wet in the
washing machine anyway
nice now that we've got the initial
scrub done and it looks like there's
actually not much dirt left on the shoe
what i'm gonna do is take off the laces
of this sneaker put them off to the side
and then start scrubbing the shoe with
the medium bristle brush first we gotta
take off the laces just to make sure
that there's no dirt hidden underneath
like the uh the eyelets of the shoe
or the eye stays and then also we can
clean the laces by um dipping them in
the water as well
there we go okay so now that we got the
laces out i'm going to scrub the tongue
of the shoe with a soft bristle brush
just to make sure that that's all clean
so i can get to it now and obviously get
the ice days as well
as many bubbles as possible
on my table
this is really messy that's okay we're
getting the shoe clean it's all matters
so now what i'm gonna do is get one of
my extra cloths and kind of wipe it down
to see uh
how much dirt is left on it not a major
wipe down just getting some of this
stuff off so that i can see a little bit
better of what we're working with get
out of the air bubble right there
that actually looks
pretty great
i'm really happy with that reshooting
really knocked all the dirt off which is
awesome there's still a couple hints of
where the dirt used to be on the sneaker
so i am gonna hit this with the uh the
medium bristle brush but i've got to say
even with just a soft bristle brush
i'm impressed again
suds sud suds most important thing
and the nice thing about the shoe being
clean now is that the suds are all nice
and
clean looking they're not brown anymore
my shirt's just brown but the suds are
clean the suds are white now that the
shoes all set it up i'm gonna go for the
bottom of the shoe with the stiff
bristle brush and try and knock out any
of the dirt that's left on the outsole
and then we're gonna get this ready to
throw in the washing machine
and the stiff bristle brush is great
because it really gets in there it kind
of gets into all the grooves knocks out
all the dirt even like pieces of gum if
there was gum in the bottom of the shoe
it does a pretty good job of getting
that out there but now that the outsole
is done what i'm going to do is going to
throw a couple more
suds
on the upper of the shoe like this
and then i'm actually going to grab the
resuminator sneaker cleaning bag i don't
know if that's exactly what it's called
but that's what i call it so what i'm
gonna do is throw the shoe with the shoe
tree into this bag this is the sneaker
laundry system i think is what it's
actually called i'm gonna take these
laces i'm gonna dip the laces in the
water
and throw them in the bag there we go
and then i'm going to take the
reshoevenator laundry pods which is what
i use to clean these sneakers in the
washing machine so the way that
reshubenator instructs you to use these
pods is place one pod one of these
little guys in the rejuvenator laundry
bag pouch this little pouch right here
with this little button and then it says
wash on cold and reseal bag after use
pro tip for best results pre-treat shoes
with residue cleaning kit which is what
we just did that's technically
pre-treating the shoes so let's open
these guys up
throw one in the pouch and then i throw
them in the washing machine throw that
in there
button it up there we go now i'm going
to throw this in the washing machine on
cold and i'll show you guys the results
afterwards
okay so i finally got the shoes out of
the washing machine i relaced them i let
them dry and i think they look
incredible so moment of truth here we go
here are the air jordan 3's all clean
looking basically brand new it's kind of
crazy so obviously they could still dry
a little bit the elephant print's still
a little bit darker than usual because
it needs to dry a little bit more but
this is pretty much it they're basically
done and in my opinion they look almost
brand new it's crazy now i obviously
wouldn't list these as almost brand new
i'd list these as worn but uh still
pretty incredible and um definitely
worth more money now that they're clean
and they look like they just came out of
a box maybe worn two or three times
honestly i'm kind of blown away by this
transformation and they actually also
smell better than they did before too
but a huge shout out to reshubenator for
making this all possible if you guys
would like to grab any of the products
that we used in today's video
specifically the sneak cleaning brushes
or the sneaker cleaner itself or even
the product that i use or the system or
kit that i use the executive kit which
actually includes literally everything
that you could ever need a lot of
everything you could ever need make sure
to click the links in the description
below and use my code seth but guys that
pretty much wraps up the video for today
thank you so much for watching once
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