u/Disastrous-Style8867

The feet hustle is my full time job, and around 16% of my income is worn items (socks, shoes, slippers, panties, nylons, etc). I see a lot of questions here asking about how to get into selling this stuff, so I figured I'd do a post in case it helped anyone! Check out my other posts for more content focused learnings (here and here).

Basic stats:

• I've sold 44 pairs of socks, 17 pairs of shoes (incl. slippers), 7 pairs of panties, and 3 pairs of nylons for $7.5k total revenue
  • My most popular socks are Nike crew socks (white and black), and my most popular shoes are vans/converse.
• On average, I sell 5 pairs of socks and 2 pairs of shoes per month, but this varies widely. Panties and nylon sales are very sporadic
• On average, socks sell for $80 (excluding some serious outliers, more on that later), shoes sell for $100 (same thing with the outliers), panties sell for $35, and nylons sell for $65
• By revenue, my platform breakdown is 53% Reddit, 37% All Things Worn, and 10% OnlyFans. I've made a negligible amount on Instagram and FB Marketplace and don't spend time promoting there anymore.

Pricing:

I've tried out a couple of pricing strategies and here's what works best for me: For items that get washed regularly (socks, panties, nylons), I charge an amount for the item + one day of wear, then allow the buyer to add on days of wear, workouts, or other things. For shoes, since they're already stinky, I charge a set amount, and buyers can add on more days of wear or other add-ons. Examples:

• Socks and nylons cost $30 for one day of wear, +$10 for each additional day, or +$50 ($80 total) to make it a week. If buyers want more than one week, I make it more expensive over time, since it gets harder for me to deal with. $180 for two weeks, $300 for 3 weeks, $450 for 4 weeks/one month, etc.
• Panties cost $15 for one day of wear, +$10 for days 2-3 (each), and +$20 for days 4-5 (each). I won't wear a pair of panties for longer than 5 days because the yeast infection ain't worth it. This might seem cheap as fuck, and it is, but the market for worn panties is SO SATURATED. Most sellers offer nudes with the panties so they can charge more. I don't do this, so I gotta keep it cheap if I want them to sell (I recently lowered my prices and have sold 4 pairs in a month vs 2 pair in a year).
• Shoes really depend:
  • If it's a pair that I wear all the time and will need to replace, I charge 150% of the retail cost (i.e. if my favorite gym shoes will cost $70 to replace, I'll list them for $100ish).
  • If it's a pair idgaf about, I'll go a little lower than retail.
  • If the pair is unbelievably stinky, I up-charge a good bit (because no extra days are necessary).
  • If they're not very stinky, I list them way low and recommend a week or two of wear, or I list them at retail and say that 2 weeks of wear is included.
• Add-ons:
  • For socks, nylons, or panties, a day of wear: $10
  • For shoes, a day of wear: socked $5, sockless $10
  • Workout: $10/session
  • Saran-wrap booties (to create extra sweat in socks): $10/day
  • No washing my feet (by wearing cast covers in the shower): $10/day, but gets more expensive as time goes on
  • Panties and nylons specific:
    • No wipe: $20/day (more expensive as time goes on)
    • No shower: $15/day (more expensive as time goes on)
    • Masturbation: $10/session
    • Alpha cum: $20 (I could do this in socks/sneakers too, but no one has ever asked for it)
    • I don't really offer 🍋 or 🍫 but I'd consider it if someone was shelling out
• The buyer always covers shipping for shoes. I'll cover shipping for something light (socks, panties, nylons) if the purchase price is over $120 or so.

Being successful on All Things Worn:

I see a lot of people talking about how hard it is to stand out on ATW, especially as a no-nudity seller (or faceless, though I can't personally speak to that). I didn't actually sell a worn item on ATW until FIVE MONTHS AFTER I SIGNED UP. I was making money on content, calls, and sexting ofc, more than enough to cover the monthly fee, but I always thought it was kinda funny that no one wanted the actual worn things lol. Anyway, here's what helped me break through:

• Take advantage of every single "instant content" slot on your profile and make sure what you have listed specifically relates to your stinky feet, socks, shoes, etc., whatever you're trying to sell. If it sells, great, if not, at least it's communicating to people that your feet really do stink.
• Be extremely descriptive in your listings (instant content and physical items) about what your feet actually smell like. Don't lie. Figure out if your feet smell like vinegar, cheese, corn chips, or something else. Write descriptions in a "triggering" way that will activate the fantasy when people read them. For example, "Stinky socks, worn for 5 days" isn't triggering anyone. "Ripe, sweat-drenched Nike crew socks, worn for 5 days and infused with my vinegary scent until ALL of my friends noticed the smell 😈" is selling a fantasy.
• For anything pre-worn, honestly rate the current smell out of 10. Buyers will ask for this, and sometimes they're just looking for free kink chat, so if it's in the listing, you can avoid playing into it. Plus, it means you can cover your ass if someone buys something and says "why wasn't it stinkier???" as long as you rated it honestly.
• Re-post listings as often as you can. Each listing can be re-posted once a week, and you can re-post 5 per day (on their standard plan. Diamond sellers can do it more often. It doesn't seem worth it to me personally).
• Post to the dash (the internal feed feature) every day, whether it's a picture (like you'd post on reddit) or something horny like "Really in the mood to watch a loser leak to my rancid soles on cam tonight".
• If you get a sale, make SURE to create an order with their internal order feature. The number of orders you complete influences seller rankings, and when you get top 10% or higher, you get a badge which promotes you more to buyers. You also can't review buyers or vice versa without an order.
• Additionally, ALWAYS ask your buyers to leave a review, and if it's for a worn item, ask them to specifically describe your scent. That helps other buyers know if they'll like what you're selling, and shows that you're telling the truth.

Selling on Reddit

The most important thing about selling worn items on Reddit is that your entire content brand revolves around your stinky feet. Take a look at my page if you don't understand what that means. Almost every single thing I post is about scent, and you will NEVER see me post about my "clean, soft soles", you'll never see me rubbing lotion or anything scented into my feet, and you'll DEFINITELY never see me post pics of me in the bath or with soapy suds on my toes. Shattering the fantasy loses you customers. This is why it's so important to pick a niche and stick to it, and if your chosen niche contradicts your feet being stinky, it's probably not going to be super easy for you to sell socks on the same account. I didn't start selling anything physical until I picked stinky feet as my niche.

Some other Reddit tips:

• There are some subreddits where selling socks is permitted, like r/usedsocks, but I mostly just post in subreddits relating to stinky feet, socks, sneakers, other shoes, or smelling feet/socks/shoes. Buyers come to me. Occasionally, I'll respond to ads on r/FetishWantAds.
• Lots of "buyers" claim they want to buy socks, but really just want to see free sock pics (because how could you expect anyone to buy a pair of socks without seeing them first??) I weed these people out by:
  • Immediately asking for age verification. I will not sell a pair of socks to anyone who won't age verify, so if they won't do it (and most scammers won't), I move on, no time wasted.
  • Confirm their payment method works for me and that they live in the US. I've never sold a worn item to anyone outside the US 🤷‍♀️ the shipping is insane (often in the $60+ range) and no buyer has ever been willing to pay it (duh) even though they say they will when we first start talking, so now it's a rule that I only sell to US buyers.
  • Share my pricing and ask how many days they want.
  • Ask which pair they want. I keep a pinned post on my page with every available pair of socks I have labeled with a number. I keep a comment updated with which pairs are no longer available. I refresh the post with a new pic every 3-6 months when my stock has changed significantly. This makes it super easy for buyers to tell me which ones they want without me sending extra pics and then getting ghosted. If they ask for more pics, I tell them they're $5 each.
• If you're doing a wear, post about it on Reddit! It shows prospective buyers that someone else has trusted you with the wear, plus it builds a little FOMO.

Protecting yourself & your time:

• I require full payment before I'll hold a spot on my wear calendar for someone, or at least full payment for the first day (if someone else is willing to pay before the original buyer has paid in full, then their wear gets paused). Never EVER wear an item for even a day before a buyer has paid, and obviously do not mail the item until full payment is received.
• If you're booking a lot of wears, have some sort of system for keeping track of when you're wearing what, when you're mailing things, which wears can happen at the same time (like a sock wear and a socked shoe wear are fine to happen at the same time, but a panty-less nylons wear and panty wear are not fine to happen simultaneously).
• When you mail items, use discreet packaging (I often re-use amazon envelopes lol) and make sure that all previous labels are removed. I tend to pick a fake return address that's in the same state as me, but is not an inhabited home and not close to where I actually live. Maybe one day I'll get a PO box! When I mail the package, I bring it to a post office a few towns over so it's not postmarked in my actual neighborhood.
• Everything I sell gets vacuum sealed, and if you're serious about this hustle, I'd get one or find a way to borrow one from a friend. If your items lose scent while they're in the mail, you won't get any repeat buyers. Plus, you really REALLY don't want to get caught by the postal service for doing this because it is not strictly legal lol.
• The sale of worn items is not allowed on Only Fans. In my experience, you won't get banned for discussing it, but I try to move anyone who's interested in it to telegram and have them pay another way so I don't risk it. I also make them verify their age again, because OF doesn't do it for buyers in all states/countries.

Other fun facts:

• The most expensive pair of socks I've ever sold were almost $2k (I wore them for 2.5 months, didn't wash my feet, and kept my feet wrapped up in saran wrap booties lol).
• The most expensive pair of shoes I've ever sold are were $450 and counting (I'm still wearing them for the buyer and he pays me weekly).

I hope this was helpful! Please don't DM me with questions, but instead, leave them in the comments so I can answer and everyone else can benefit from the info too :)

I’ve been selling on OF for over a year and I really considered it a point of pride that I’d never had a single chargeback (which is when your buyer disputes a charge with their credit card company, the credit card company takes the money back from OF, and OF takes the money back from your pending balance).

It’s kind of a given that it’ll happen at some point for content sellers (post nut clarity, scammy assholes) and it’s particularly bad on OF because they offer no protection against chargebacks (other platforms absorb the loss and let the sellers keep the money they rightfully earned). But I guess I let my 0% chargeback rate go to my head, because I want to scream into a pillow now that it’s happening to me lol. Worst of all, the buyer that’s doing it is a whale who drops nearly $300 per session and has been working with me with no issues for over a year. I’m telling myself that maybe his wife/GF found the charges and disputed them and that it wasn’t him, given how long we’ve been doing this. But I am still filled with rage that OF doesn’t offer protection against stuff like this. Anywhoooo just wanted to rant, I hope everyone else is having a better Sunday than me!

For context, I sell foot content and worn items as my full time job. I’ve written advice posts/AMAs here and here.

Background/motive: I’ve been doing this job full time for a little over a year now, and I wanted to mix things up a little and get more creative about what I was offering (end goals: more money and a more interesting day to day for me). My biggest learning from the last year is that selling premade content at scale is a fantastic way to boost numbers in this business, because even cheap vids ($8-$15) add up if tons of people are buying, and way more people will buy if the price is low (vs a small number of people buying an expensive vid). I was thinking about how I might apply this learning to socks/other worn items and I was feeling stumped, because beyond wearing a pair of socks for less time, you can’t really offer them cheaper without losing money, and even my cheapest offering ($30 for one day of wear) is too much for a lot of buyers. Then I thought of a raffle!

Set up: $10 per entry, winner gets a pair of socks of their choosing worn for a week ($86 value with shipping). Unlimited entries, US only (to avoid crazy shipping), everyone had to verify their age to enter or pay on a site like OF which would be liable if it turned out they were minor. Plus, and I think this is really what made it successful: every single person who entered got the same 3 minute premade video that I filmed with the pair that won. I advertised on Reddit, all things worn, only fans, and feet finder and the raffle was open for 2 weeks. I made the closing day my birthday, and promoted it as a birthday raffle.

Results: I made roughly 2x the value of the week worn socks + what I would charge for a 3 minute custom video, which is a huge success in my book! I was worried I wouldn’t even make enough to cover the cost of the socks, so I’m very pleased with this outcome.

Why I think it worked:

- the premade vid really sweetened the deal. Even if the buyer didn’t win the raffle, they wouldn’t walk away empty handed, and it was minimal extra work for me because I only had to film once. Plus, $10 for a 3 minute premade video is cheaper than I typically charge per minute, so it’s a good deal, and it’s a topic they know they’ll be interested in (stinky socks)

- promising a video of the winning socks made it clear that I was actually planning on picking a winner and wearing the socks, which helped with my credibility and trustworthiness (though I have a large following already so I wasn’t too worried about this)

- advertising it as a birthday raffle made people say happy birthday in my comments which helped boost my posts lol. But I think this was minor

Learnings:

- raffles are technically gambling lol. I did some research on the laws in my state about raffles and decided it was too small of a scale and too low consequence for me to be worried about legal action. However, all things worn made me take my post down because they don’t have a gambling license lol (fair) so next time, I’ll probably only promote on reddit

- I sold most entries on Reddit/OF. Selling worn items technically isn’t allowed on OF, but I figured it was worth the gamble (and I was planning on discussing details with the winner on telegram if it was someone who had paid on OF)

- most people only bought one entry, which makes sense given that I was hoping to lower the barrier of entry and entice buyers with smaller budgets

- many people who entered are people who have engaged with me a ton of Reddit/OF but have never bought anything, which made me happy! To me this says that they’ve always wanted to support me but haven’t been able to at my standard price points

- a few people who entered are sock regulars who were just like hell yeah, why not! Because they already know they like my scent

- time will tell, but I suspect the people who entered will now be more likely to buy from me again, because they’ve seen a full video of mine

Stuff I’ll try next time:

- I’ll probably try lowering the entry price, maybe $5 each, and going with a cheaper pair of socks (3-5 days)

- might also try shoes, though that market is smaller and I’d definitely risk losing money on the pair

- 3 mins was kind of a long premade, might do 2 mins (especially if the socks are worn for less time and the entry price is cheaper).

- two winners?? And two pairs of socks

- I’ll space out the next one because I want it to feel special so people keep entering

Feel free to leave questions in the comments! If you couldn’t tell, I used to work in growth strategy lol so I love talking about this stuff