BIEBERNEWS:The man who paid $1,425 for Justin Bieber’s right shoe!!
Justin Bieber’s right shoe was sold for $1,425 to a 52-year-old man from Kitchener, Ont.
The 52-year-old buyer of Justin Bieber’s right shoe has the best intentions.
Jim Mitchell of Kitchener, Ont., paid $1,425 for the purple Nike sneaker, which Bieber autographed and donated to help raise money for his former high school’s broadcasting studio project.
But Mitchell does not suffer from Bieber fever. He does not copy Bieber’s signature hairstyle. And he cannot recite all the lyrics to all the songs on My World 2.0.
In fact, Mitchell can only name one Bieber song as his favourite, which he believes is called Baby, Baby.
“It’s only because it’s on the radio all the time,” he says.
Mitchell’s real motivation for bidding on eBay for the shoe was to honour his grandfather, who owned a broadcasting studio in Kitchener in the 1930s and ’40s. When he died in 1951, Mitchell’s family had to sell the studio because nobody knew how to properly run it. Mitchell says he wants future generations to be educated in broadcast communications.
“No good deed goes unpunished,” he says of the criticism he’s been seeing today on the Internet.
Mitchell doesn’t have the shoe in his hand quite yet. He’ll be working out a deal with Stratford Northwestern Secondary School this week to figure out the best way to transport the shoe. The school still has the left shoe, also autographed, whose fate is yet to be determined.
Mitchell says he would consider bidding on the left shoe if the school puts it on eBay. Only this time under an anonymous identity.
Justin Bieber’s right shoe was sold for $1,425 to a 52-year-old man from Kitchener, Ont.
The 52-year-old buyer of Justin Bieber’s right shoe has the best intentions.
Jim Mitchell of Kitchener, Ont., paid $1,425 for the purple Nike sneaker, which Bieber autographed and donated to help raise money for his former high school’s broadcasting studio project.
But Mitchell does not suffer from Bieber fever. He does not copy Bieber’s signature hairstyle. And he cannot recite all the lyrics to all the songs on My World 2.0.
In fact, Mitchell can only name one Bieber song as his favourite, which he believes is called Baby, Baby.
“It’s only because it’s on the radio all the time,” he says.
Mitchell’s real motivation for bidding on eBay for the shoe was to honour his grandfather, who owned a broadcasting studio in Kitchener in the 1930s and ’40s. When he died in 1951, Mitchell’s family had to sell the studio because nobody knew how to properly run it. Mitchell says he wants future generations to be educated in broadcast communications.
“No good deed goes unpunished,” he says of the criticism he’s been seeing today on the Internet.
Mitchell doesn’t have the shoe in his hand quite yet. He’ll be working out a deal with Stratford Northwestern Secondary School this week to figure out the best way to transport the shoe. The school still has the left shoe, also autographed, whose fate is yet to be determined.
Mitchell says he would consider bidding on the left shoe if the school puts it on eBay. Only this time under an anonymous identity.
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