(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
(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
(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
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
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…
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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
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
(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
(2/3) I didn’t think much of it for the first couple of hours...I figured I’d do some research when we got home, but on the drive I started thinking a bit more about them. ...
On our way home, we stop
Sep 8, 2019
Second good question I saw regarding the Jeter XI Highs - “Did you grade this on how good a fake it was out of 10" (although I'm not sure how serious @corderoj0330 was). But the answer is Definitely y
Aug 31, 2019
One of those super rare pairs I had the opportunity to grade...should I have authenticated them? I don’t think there’s more than 5 pairs of this shoe in the world. Why aren’t those fake manufacturers
Aug 30, 2019
This comment isn’t all that helpful, but the comment he left on my page was helpful (swipe to see it). I was actually hoping for more comments like this, because I think it’s important to have a conve
Aug 29, 2019
(7/9) $21,000 Jeter XI High authenticity check Cont’d
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After several painstaking hours and several pixel-by-pixel reviews and several discussions with colleagues and several image requests from both
Aug 26, 2019
(5/9) $21,000 Jeter XI High authenticity check Cont’d…
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So I reached out to a few of the consignment shops to see if they could send me comparison pics and not a single shop responded in kind (or, re
Aug 25, 2019
(4/9) $21,000 Jeter XI High authenticity check Cont'd...
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Being that every major sneaker blog published '5 pairs released', I set out to locate them. I searched high and low and I found around…11 pai
Aug 25, 2019
