Originally Posted by
Lemond1985
I recently came up with the amazing(!?) idea of looking on Ebay for used cycling shoes, and was pleasantly surprised at the selection. It seems like the selection of used shoes is in some ways superior to what you see being sold new, and the prices are almost never above $100. It's a good place to find a lot of discontinued brands and styles, which are often better than what you can get new.
Cycling shoes rarely get a lot of use anyway, unless the person races, and a lot of the fancier brands were originally bought by poseurs (who paid a fortune retail) and who only used them a few times, if ever at all.
I nabbed a very lightly used pair of the classic Avocet touring shoes recently on eBay. They are awesome.