(9/12) One thing you might not know about products and product delivery - it takes a long time to develop a product and it takes an even longer time to have it created and it takes an even longer time
Oct 2, 2019
(8/12) Dad jokes. My last day at Urban Necessities was filled with hope and promise and then it quietly fell into...confusion. @twojskicks , @cease91 , @joaniebean and I discussed next steps and I had
Oct 2, 2019
(7/12) @twojskicks @cease91 and I sat down on the Shea Stadium seats in the shop and talked about grading. We sat side to side and I tried to explain different shoes and different grading metrics I pi
Oct 1, 2019
(6/12) I called my cousin, @djklick : “Hey man, I think I just landed a deal at @urban_necessities you got any interest in a quick trip down to Vegas?” My cousin picked me up about 36 hours later and
Sep 29, 2019
(5/12) When I answered the phone, I was nervous as all hell. Here was something I had worked on for 2 years and this was my first time showing it to somebody in the sneaker world. I definitely felt li
Sep 29, 2019
(4/12) In January of 2014, I started thinking about sneaker grading and the business that would come to be known as The Sneaker Savant. Because it’s like a completely different business model and a hy
Sep 28, 2019
(3/12) A year or so flies by and, through following Jaysse on Facebook and contacting him time and time with my random pickups & sneaker app ideas, I’m watching this dude build his dream brick by bric
Sep 27, 2019
(2/12) Now, it's a couple of months later in 2013, and my phone dings and its an eBay alert. It’s a message from eBay telling me that I’ve got a message from another member. I open it up and I get the
Sep 26, 2019
(1/12) So the year was 2013 and my girlfriend and I had just moved down to San Francisco after spending the prior two years up in Tahoe, and I was fresh on my thrift store grind. If you don’t spend mu
Sep 25, 2019
Back on that sneaker grading grind. Graded these a couple weeks ago but got another batch of some gems to get through this morning. ⠀
Nothing all that hyped, but some interesting shoes in there. C
Sep 22, 2019
Isn’t @niketalk_com birthday coming up soon? 😂
Just a little throwback Saturday. If you know, you know. If you don’t - search for this image on #niketalk
To me this was peak #niketalk . Dipset,
Sep 21, 2019
Saturday September 21, 2019
Sep 20, 2019
Haters will say it’s photoshopped.
... So with a single *left* and a single *right* shoe going for a bit more than $100k total, it had me thinking - which sneakerhead could afford to buy and wear thes
Sep 19, 2019
And could I forget about the *single* greatest *single* left shoe sale of all time? Yup, the Nike Air Mag (from Back to the Future II) that recently sold on the @shoezeum ebay account…
…
This shoe -
Sep 18, 2019
Posting that *single* Vin Baker PE - and the price jumped from $850 to $1000 after we posted it - “By simply posting, The Sneaker Savant helps you get more for your single shoes” 😂 ) - got me thinking
Sep 17, 2019
The irony is not lost on me. Remember, this is part of a pair I posted the other day that is kind of like the cornerstone of the first version of Jordan Brand athletes...Vin Bakers signature model the
Sep 16, 2019
For those of you who followed the story - I’ve found another pair, so that makes...what...13 pairs? (or is it 14? 15? I’ve lost count at this point). If you haven’t been following my account for long
Sep 15, 2019
Pics As requested...this Vin Baker PEs I was talking about the other day (the ones I bought for like $180 and sold like 3 years later for $300 🤦♂️)
... Kinda wish I kept them. When I was in college I
Sep 15, 2019
(2/2) So the day after I bought the Fake IV’s on eBay, I told my sneaker buddies @danposite (R.I.P.) (and I’m pretty sure @solesupreme was there but I could be wrong) and we kinda laughed about it...w
Sep 14, 2019
(Interlude) Funny enough, in 2006, Jordan Brand got called out for that last image I posted that was used by almost every fake seller on eBay in like 2005.
... An important thing to remember: not ever
Sep 14, 2019
(1/2) Back when I was 16 or 17 years old, there was only one Jordan silhouette that released per year. There was no such thing as retros. So at the time, the silhouette was the Jordan XII and the Jord
Sep 13, 2019
Did you know? When Michael Jordan was getting close to retirement, Jordan Brand knew they needed other athletes to carry on his sneaker legacy. For basketball, they had this idea to sponsor a ‘quick’
Sep 12, 2019
If you collect shoes and don’t know anything about the peak of the sports card era from the mid-80’s to the early 90’s, I would highly recommend ‘Jack of All Trades’ on Netflix. Why am I, The Sneaker
Sep 11, 2019
It’s kinda funny when you look at old sports cards. This one isn’t exactly *old*, but James Harden kinda looks like a little kid in this pic. The beard definitely makes him recognizable.
... I really
Sep 10, 2019
