It's good to know that all these years of promoting is going somewhere, I am so happy.

I'm surprised we're getting a reaction. This is great.

YEa! we're keeping the name alive! Soaps are the sickest shit ever

Online retailers. EBay is not the only way.

YEa sapauthor, i agree, well put... When i first tried looking for soaps, i was disapointed when they werent selling ONLINE DIRECTLY from THEIR site....that was disappointing...

How come they don't want to supply online retailers? Surely that removes a huge sales potential seeing as the word on Soap Shoes is pretty much exclusively web-based?

That doesn't make a great deal of sense to me... surely with Soap's popularity not so great at the moment, and the very obvious online community, generating sales online would boost sales and retailer interest? No one wants to stock a product that won't sell, but if hesitant retailers see sales picking up through online stores then they may see that it'd be worth stocking the product themselves.

If you want to sell a product, you'll sell it wherever the market is for that product; if you want to sell t-shirts for a rock band, you'll sell them at their concerts. If you want to sell ice-cream, you'll sell it in the hot sun where there's alot of people. No sensible business waits for their customers to come to them, they set up shop in a position where their product will generate the greatest number of sales, and for Soap, that position is not in stores, it's online.

If Soap's sales and marketing executives took a look at eBay, they'd see that pretty much every pair of Soap Shoes on there sells. Independant sellers are making a killing from selling off old stock. Shoes are going for more than $100 a pair; if the online market isn't there then why are people paying through the nose for a product that, allegedly, doesn't justify a web-based sales approach? The answer is simple. The presence of the Soap Shoe brand over the internet is massive and Soap are simply not exploiting this enormous potential; people are driven to eBay because they cannot find the product elsewhere.

The growth of the Soap brand, and any brand for that matter, is in the hands of the market force. If HSL and Soap want their product to grow then the online potential absolutely must be embraced.

eBay is a terrible place to sell your product if you're a large company like HSL/Soap. These companies already have sales and marketing departments for a reason; they forge contacts with real retail companies and sell their products through them. eBay is a good place for a small business to sell their products, but the costs incurred are ridiculous when compared to the margins that professional, 'real' businesses work to

I guess ur right, Mart. But still, setting up a click and brick store isn't the hardest thing, like i said my friend does programming for all that, and knows how to link the physical inventory systems to the site and all that jargon. Doing this though would definitelly strenghten Soaps ability to hit the target market all around, it's basically gaurenteeing them a larger margin and more sales directly.

You figure they'd get the hint since Soap shoes haven't been sold through stores in a long time.

Hey SapAuthor go to the forum called chat room so we can talk! I have to ask you for your opinoin.

they'd be losing money if they did that, unless they increased the price by a huge margin

Main thing I am questioning about...

Is the upcoming production of the same styles going to be from Heely's SOAP line, or from SOAP itself? *really wants to get his first pair*

But I'm glad these will come back in a nice stock. That way, it won't be as hard to obtain one online in my shoe size.

http://www.solidgrind.com/shoes/heelys/

SOAP's from Heely's, I guess? I don't know the exact term for it, really.

I really want to try them, as I found out about them recently. *was around 7 years old and not very athletic at the time*

Gah. Hopefully, I don't get burned with flame messages now. >_

^ Ah, thanks. I'm still confused whether what will be released, though.
Either Heely's with grindplates, or Soap's like Scorcher etc etc.

Man, I feel like an idiot now. ._.!

^ Ah, okay. I really do not want a wheel on these new coming ones. >_<

But, I'm excited either way.

HSL, the company that makes Heelys, also owns Soap Shoes. The Soap Shoes that Heely make are the ones that they are putting out again this September; Heelys are already widely available, and no old Soap Shoe models will be made because HSL do not manufacture these shoes, and never have done

HSL told me the Express......but i think the Nitros as well

HSL has only been making non-removable plate grind shoes....as well as Heelys....They have their ups and downs though:

UPs:

Light
Fast
Very Durable
Very Good lock-on
Pretty Damn Stylish

DOWNS:

They arent replaceable! lol
The side usually cracks after awhile (hey it happened to me and a few other people said it)

If anyone wants to add to this, be my guest