Shoes shelf · snapshot 2026-10-26

Kakobuy shoes: 48 rows and a median of $47.74

Shoes are the shelf where the row price most often gets mistaken for the cost. A pair is heavier than anything else in this catalogue, the box is bigger than the shoe, and the spreadsheet has no size column. This page is what those 48 rows actually cost and what one pair actually lands at.

48 rows are filed under Shoes with a median of $47.74; half sit between $42.52 and $62.39. The cheapest row in the shelf is $0.18 and it is not a shoe — it is a football tattoo sticker. At an assumed 1.3 kg per pair the median row lands at about $80.17 in the EU once freight, handling and 21% VAT are counted.

48Rows on this shelf
$47.74Median row
$42.52–$62.39Middle half
$80.17Median landed, EU

Six rows across the price range

One row from each sixth of the shelf, cheapest first — a sample of the spread, not a shortlist. Every tile links to the product page, where the live price and the size grid live.

The $0.18 row that is not a shoe

The first row on this shelf sorts to $0.18: a "Football Tattoo Sticker World Cup Club Game Peripheral". It is filed under Shoes because the source catalogue files sports merchandise under the sport, not under the object. It matters beyond trivia: any filter that reads "cheapest shoe" gets a sticker, and it is the only row under $20 on the whole shelf. The 25th percentile of the shelf is $42.52, which is closer to what a pair actually costs than either end of the range.

No size column, and that is the real catch

This index publishes SPU, SKU, name, category, brand and price. It does not publish sizes, because a row is a link to a product page that carries its own size grid — one row can cover EU 39 to 45. What you get from the row is the price band and the shape of the product; what you must read before paying is the size table on the far side of the link, and then the measuring tape that arrives in the QC photos. The sizing guide on this site exists because that gap is where most first orders go wrong.

Freight is charged on the box, not the shoe

A sneaker box is roughly 3 litres of air. On the economy line the divisor is 6000, so a 33 × 22 × 14 cm box bills at 1.694 kg even before the shoe is weighed — and the higher of the two numbers is what you pay. At 1.3 kg per pair the median row moves from $47.74 to about $80.17 landed in the EU, of which $16.70 is freight. Two pairs in one parcel is the only way that number gets better; two separate parcels pay the $12.50 first-kilo charge twice.

From row price to landed price

One item per parcel, economy line, assumed 1.3 kg, 21% modelled VAT for the EU. Germany charges 19%, Poland 23%. Freight is the planning default from the shipping page, not a live quote.

Landed cost at three points of the shoes distribution
RowGoodsFreightHandlingVAT 21%LandedFreight share
Cheapest quarter — 25th percentile of the shelf $42.52 $16.70 $2.20 $12.44 $73.86 23%
Median row — the middle of the distribution $47.74 $16.70 $2.20 $13.53 $80.17 21%
Upper quarter — 75th percentile $62.39 $16.70 $2.20 $16.61 $97.90 17%

Who is on this shelf

Brand names as the row spells them; 31 of 48 rows carry one, the rest are described by shape.

Brands on the shoes shelf, by row count
BrandRowsShare of shelf
Dior1123%
New Balance817%
Nike48%
Adidas24%
Louis Vuitton24%
Balenciaga12%
No brand named1735%

Before you open the row

Every number here is recomputed at build time. Same 307-row snapshot as the spreadsheet; the live sheet is the only live price.
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The other shelves

Same method, same snapshot. The full comparison — every shelf side by side — is on the price index, and the raw rows are in the dataset.

Questions about this shelf

Why is the cheapest row in the Shoes shelf $0.18?

It is a football tattoo sticker, filed under Shoes because the source catalogue groups World Cup merchandise by sport. Ignore it when you budget: the 25th percentile of the shelf is $42.52, and that is closer to what a pair costs.

Does the spreadsheet list shoe sizes?

No. A row carries the price and a pointer to the product page, and the size grid lives on that page. Read it there, then check the insole and outsole measurements in the QC photos before you accept the parcel.

What does a $47 pair land at in the EU?

About $80.17 at an assumed 1.3 kg: $16.70 freight, $2.20 handling and $13.53 VAT on goods plus freight. Volumetric weight on a boxed pair can push the charged weight up, so treat it as a floor rather than a quote.

Which brands are actually on this shelf?

Dior (11), New Balance (8), Nike (4), Adidas (2) — 31 of 48 rows carry a brand name at all. The rest are described by shape rather than label.

Related pages

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