Boot Swap Page
--find a buyer for boots you got in the wrong size!

 

Please note:  shipping costs are additional for these listings. Please work this out with your seller.

I am providing this page to help boot buyers and sellers connect as a free public service.  I am not responsible for the conduct of the buyers or sellers, or for the quality of the merchandise. 

However, a lot of people have used this page very successfully to buy or sell boots.  I hear lots of comments like these:

After you have sold your boots, or found what you were looking for, please  EMAIL ME so I can take your notice down! 

If an ad you contacted is no longer available, please  EMAIL ME!

In general, though, the oldest posts are the first results, and the newer posts are towards the bottom.

I have been cleaning house on this page recently.
All ads more than 1-2 months old have been deleted, unless people asked me to keep them up after I emailed everybody.  I have also deleted ads with bouncing email addresses, and emailed everyone with ads older than a month.  A lot of people wrote back that they had already bought or sold the boots they had wanted to, so I took these ads down.  (This resulted in about 1/3 of the ads coming down on Oct. 19, 2004.)  Ads with the first line (Buy/sell/swap:) in green were reconfirmed late May/early June, 2007...as still being current.  Ads with the first line (Buy/sell/swap:) in teal were reconfirmed mid-August, 2007...as still being current.

At present, the newest ads are at the bottom of the page.  My approach in the past was to not take ads down unless the people asked me to.  Since there was so much dead wood from people not remembering to do this after their boots sold, I will limit the length of time ads will run in the future to 1-2 months, unless someone asks me to keep an ad up longer when I recheck them all periodically.  If when I recheck periodically and I don't hear back from you, your ad will come down.

Fraud prevention for online transactions--

PayPal www.paypal.com offers some fraud protection, and the fees are relatively lower (sellers are charged 2.9% plus 30 cents for transactions within the US; 3.9% plus 30-55 cents for foreign transactions.  Foreign currency conversions are also handled automatically by PayPal, which is certainly cheaper and more convenient than getting international money orders from your bank, or trying to deposit foreign payments into your bank account.)  Setting up a PayPal account is quick and simple.  PayPal will let you know when a payment has actually cleared; then you can ship out. 

If you sell something using PayPal, be sure to keep a tracking number to prove you shipped it.  Sending something out with no tracking number is riskier; you cannot prove you shipped anything out.  If you accept a personal check, wait for it to clear before shipping anything out.  It IS possible to get charge-backs from Pay Pal.  If you can't prove you sent the package out because you don't have a tracking number, and the buyer says it never arrived, you could lose your money through a PayPal charge-back.  If the buyer claims their PayPal account was used by someone not authorized to use it (such as one of their children), a charge-back is also possible.  This is a problem PayPal realizes needs to be corrected, though.

If you buy something, paying through PayPal, it never arrives, and the shipper cannot prove to PayPal that it was shipped out to you with a tracking number...you can get your account credited.  (This is called a charge-back.)

A common problem lately is for a buyer to send you a fraudulent cashier's check. The fraud is not caught until the cashier's check gets back to the issuing bank. Your local bank will probably not catch that it is phony right away. 

Another scam to watch for is when they offer to overpay for something to be shipped overseas, and ask you to pay their shipper (also overseas) out of the overpayment...usually through payment methods that are not traceable, like a Western Union money order.  This is money laundering, and/or their check will bounce.

If you pay for something with a money order, keep a Xerox copy of the money order so you have enough information to get documentation later from the issuing bank that the seller has cashed it. 

If someone claims they mailed you money, but you never received anything, ask them to provide documentation that their check or money order has been paid out to you.  If they can't provide documentation, find another buyer who isn't playing games...

I merely offer a place where boot buyers and sellers get together.  It is open to all, and I don't know most of the people who are using this page, so I can't accept responsibility for how anyone using this page acts.

Common boot sizes:
Width is widest part of the hoof.  Length is from toe to the backs of the heels, but NOT heel bulbs.  You are measuring a footprint.
(Click on thumbnail photos to see larger versions.)

  

Boa Horse Boots
     
http://www.easycareinc.com/our_boots/boa_horse_boot/Boa_Boots.aspx

Castle Hoof Boots--similar to Horse-Mocs

http://www.castleplastics.com/hoofboots.htm

Cavallo Simple Boots
           
http://www.cavallo-inc.com/horseboots.html

Davis Barrier boots
    
http://www.davismanufacturing.com/products/barrier_boot.html

Davis Soaking boots

http://www.davismanufacturing.com/products/horse_boot.html

EasySoaker

http://www.easycareinc.com/our_boots/easy_soakers/EasySoakers.aspx

Easy boots

http://www.easycareinc.com/our_boots/easyboots/Easyboots.aspx

Easy boots, new 'Epic' model
   
http://www.easycareinc.com/our_boots/easyboot_epics/Easyboot_Epic.aspx
Note--they have recently changed sizing a bit!
The Epic model is an Easy boot with a gator permanently attached.
Easy boot gators can also be added to newer Easy boots.
 

Healing Slipper
  
Original model on left; new, heavier duty version on right that is less breathable
Very light duty--good for holding bandages onto sore horses, about $35 each
Breathable, leather-soled "healing slipper"--available at (866) 859-9242 or
http://bluegrass-equine.com/products/the-equine-slipper

Hoof Wings
   
(An early version; design still being improved.)
Sizes in green type are available NOW; in pink type, available LATER
Blue type--insoles standard; new, improved attachment system
Red type--mule size coming soon, insoles standard;
new, improved attachment system
http://www.HorseSneaker.com/hoofwings.htm
Measure length from end of toe to back of frog.
Click HERE for more detailed measuring instructions.

(In the future, they hope to offer sizes in 1/4" (. 6 cm) increments, and also
sizes for narrower feet 1" (2.5 cm) longer than wide.)

Horse-Mocs--custom made from hoof tracings

No standard sizes--you send in tracings for custom boots.
http://www.horsemocs.com/index2.htm

Marquis boots

(They go more by width)
N. American distributor:  http://www.StrideEquus.com/
info@strideequus.com
Note--they have recently changed sizing a bit!

Old Macs (original version)
        
(They go more by length; if your width is a 2 and length is a 5,
use a 5 with shims in the side.  Run wide, and short front-to-back.)
http://www.easycareinc.com/our_boots/old_macs/Old_Macs.aspx

Old Macs G2 (updated version)
        
(The new version of the Old Macs are a more normal shape than the old version;
they are not wider than long, as the old version was, and fit more horses, and even some mules.
The breakover on the bottoms no longer has the point that the old version did.)
http://www.easycareinc.com/our_boots/old_macs_G2/Old_Macs_G2.aspx

Sabre Sneakers--standard sizes

(They go more by width)
http://www.sabresneaker.com/index.html