Bieber's shoe to fetch over $10K - Toronto Sun

<div id="contentSwap" readability="78.81189251"> <p>STRATFORD, Ont. -- When students at a local high school get their broadcast booth, the first thing they might want to do is play a Justin Bieber song.</p> <p>After all, the booth will have been paid for with the proceeds from the pop singer's right shoe. Students from Bieber's alma mater, Stratford Northwestern Secondary School, approached his grandparents and asked for something signed they could put up on eBay to raise money. To their delight, he signed a pair of worn, purple Nike runners.</p> <p>Teachers and students decided to put one shoe up for auction and hang onto the other one for now.</p> <p>Now it seems that after starting at $50, one shoe will fetch at least $10,700.</p> <p>"We're surprised how high it is and how far reaching the media is," said teacher Keith Edwards.</p> <p>Students got the word out through newspapers, Twitter, YouTube and other forms of media. It wasn't long before more media picked it up and the news travelled to fan websites.</p> <p>It was, of course, social media that started Bieber's career when his mother posted videos of him singing on YouTube.</p> <p>Just before the bidding closes on Friday afternoon there could be a flurry of activity. When students put the shoe up on eBay, the final bids on a lock of Bieber's hair were coming in to raise funds for The Gentle Barn animal welfare charity through the Ellen DeGeneres show. The hair was at about $12,000 the day before bidding closed and ended at more than $40,000.</p> <p>"Who knows where it's going to go. We're trying to brace ourselves," Edwards said of the competition for the shoe.</p> <p>So, what of Bieber's left shoe?</p> <p>"We still haven't decided. We're still riding this wave," Edwards said.</p> <!-- title Bieber's shoe to fetch over $10K /title --> <!-- pubdate 20110309 /pubdate --> </div>