The Sneaker Savant

Based on the multitude of responses from that last post on these - it seems that sneaker grading matters - especially if you’re thinking you’ve got something and (clearly) the marketplace thinks you have another. IMO - nobody is going to spend $280 on that pair of beat ‘Skate or Die’ SBs, nor should they. Imagine a price registry that not only told you the last price someone paid for a pair of ‘Skate or Die’ SBs, but also told you the price of the last pair that was a 3.5/10..or a 5/10...or a 7.5/10. That way, you could contextualize what you’re about to spend on something. A no-brainer, IMO. And I’ve pitched this to both @stockx and @goat and was met with crickets.

I ran this shoe through the #shoemetrics grader and it came back a 3.5/10, but I was also pretty lenient as there aren’t all that many pics for me to do it with 100% accuracy. So...anywhere between a 3-3.5/10 is safe IMO.

For this dude to say it’s a ‘7.5/10’, either he was trolling (like @mrhyphy said), or he is just looking at his sh*t through rose-colored glasses. And we all do that, from time to time...it’s just not always so egregious LOL

A 7.5, to me and my grader, is a shoe with minor production flaws and probably has been worn minimally. I would say the VAST majority of shoes I’ve graded have fallen in that 7.5-8.5 range...And that’s because I’m not all that interested in anything outside of that spectrum.

All of that to ask - with these kinds of ‘self appointed graders’ popping up ALL over the place - why hasn’t sneaker grading taken off yet? Why hasn’t the responsibility of grading been outsourced to a third-party (ie: me)?

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