How can we sell $230 Dollars Bates boots for under $50 you ask? These Bates Boots are factory seconds which means usually a stitch is off center, or perhaps there was a small flaw in the leather or the sole. In the vast majority of these if we did not tell you it was a second you would not know! Your boots are going to get dirty as soon as you walk in the dirt so who cares if there is a small cosmetic flaw right? You are saving big time!!