(5/?)⁣ ⁣ Through the years, I’d say I’ve sold more than a few thousand items on eBay, the VAST majority of those being shoes. I have a handful of memories about what I sold, but not everything has tha

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Through the years, I’d say I’ve sold more than a few thousand items on eBay, the VAST majority of those being shoes. I have a handful of memories about what I sold, but not everything has that interesting of a backstory. ⁣⁣
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One of the things that sticks out in my mind from those early days was the @nike x @ebay Dunk SBs. I remember knowing very little about Dunks before hearing about these before a good friend I met on @niketalk_com - @danposite - put me onto them. ⁣⁣
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TBH, at the time, I thought it was a silly looking pair. Clown colors, patent leather, they just looked ridiculous to me. I couldn’t believe they’d sell for more than a few hundred dollars at most. A thousand dollars for a pair of shoes at that time was virtually unheard of. ⁣⁣
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It was a charity move in which @nike and @ebay put forth a SINGLE pair of Dunk SBs - complete with the eBay colors and ‘Nike’ stitched on the heel in the original ‘eBay’ script. Whoever won the auction would choose their size and Nike would construct another *custom* pair. The pair they used in the auction would be destroyed so that Nike and eBay could actually claim the existence of only ONE pair in the world - the custom pair. ⁣⁣
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They ended up selling for something like $30k and within a day or so of auctions end - we saw pictures of the auction pair destroyed - cut into pieces by a hand saw. I never really found out who won the auction or where the custom pair ended up....it’d be interesting to know who bought them and if they’re still around. ⁣⁣
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Dunk SBs were popular at the time - I wasn’t THAT hip to them - I had some Dunk Pro B’s I purchased from @urbanoutfitters in 2001 or 2002 - but this brought dunk hysteria to new levels (kinda like these @travisscott SBs…⁣⁣)
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Can anyone out there tell me anything I don’t know about this pair? ⁣⁣
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