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I’m like 1.5 months into my ‘I’m not buying any shoes for the whole of 2021’ and I thought I’d report back on what’s going on with my this goal: 1. I almost slipped up. Once or twice. I own a pair

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If you don’t feel like a chump after hearing about this whole ‘Trophy Room’ debacle, you probably are a chump. My god. The ridiculousness involved in this drop is unparalleled. This is like some @robi

Air Jordan 1
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For those of us old enough to remember this happening the first time...if this happens again it’s pretty normal. It’s to be expected. And a brand like Nike *knows about it and plans for it and probabl

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Could you imagine being the type of person that purchases a NIKE ID for $120 then immediately turns around and lists it on eBay for $2.7k? I get that there are a ton of people unemployed, but FFS…$3k?

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This is SUPER old news - it’s so old that it can only be considered ‘news’ by someone looking at historical texts - but back in 2016 @npdmattpowell_ (known sneaker industry numbers guy) broke down Nike’s earnings into layman’s terms: He calculated that Nike was selling 25 pairs of shoes PER SECOND. And at the time - it looked like Adidas was selling close to half that amount (12-13 pairs per second - remember the ZX Flux and NMDs?) and Under Armour significantly less (2 pairs per second - when a

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This is SUPER old news - it’s so old that it can only be considered ‘news’ by someone looking at historical texts - but back in 2016

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This is SUPER old news - it’s so old that it can only be considered ‘news’ by someone looking at historical texts - but back in 2016

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(3/3)...What else pops up at Nike Rebound? Take a look above... For me, I wonder about what happens with these shoes - like why would these shoes end up at return centers? How could Travis Scott 1

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(2/3) About 40 minutes outside of Indianapolis, Indiana, exists a large warehouse called XPO Logistics, which works with another small company called ‘Nike’. The name of their center is called ‘Nike R

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(1/3) Before the bots, when online releases were a relatively new thing, you’d try your damndest to cart something and checkout asap. The thing was, you had to be quick with your fingers and quick wit

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Yeezy

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So now that the dust on 2020 has settled - what are your new years ‘sneaker’ resolutions? On New Years Eve, I spent a great deal of time just sorting and sifting through my sneaker boxes and came

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So...check it...these are some of the things I find when grading shoes…

PE
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So...check it...these are some of the things I find when grading shoes… I got my hands on this pair for a bit below retail (retail was like 140 GBP so around $190 USD), and was actually quite di

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Saw this headline the other day and was taken back to 2014, when I came across a similar opportunity. Remember, in 2014 - we didn’t have a million different sneaker marketplace. There were the retaile

New Balance
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If anything ever felt like a waste of time - it’d be sorting through the comments of ‘the cost of a pair of shoes’ post from the other day…what a barrel of fun!

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If anything ever felt like a waste of time - it’d be sorting through the comments of ‘the cost of a pair of shoes’ post from the other day…what a barrel of fun!

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I’ve been getting into a bit in the comments with these guys who insist that when @stockx sells pairs before the release date they’re ‘legit early pairs, bro’. Dudes swear they have all the answers, y

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Does anyone else wonder when enough will be enough? Like...is there a point that this is going to reach some sort of critical mass and just fall apart? I swear I’ve been waiting for the sneaker m

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(2/2) I leave with 10 pairs that first day and agree to pick up the remaining pairs the next day (I had to lug them roughly 20 blocks in the Manhattan heat and couldn’t imagine doing it twice).

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(2/2) I leave with 10 pairs that first day and agree to pick up the remaining pairs the next day (I had to lug them roughly 20 blocks in the Manhattan heat and couldn’t imagine doing it twice).

Nike
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This might all just be a rumor...but from what I’ve heard...one of the worlds most successful sneaker resellers built his brand through buying out mom and pop shops in an unconventional way…Again - th

Jordan Brand
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Retro

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When I saw that @pgknows pic I did a quick double take. Not all that surprising as I’ve seen stuff like this a few times, but it was interesting nonetheless. Shortly after the pic hit @complex, I got

Nike
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I’ve seen no less than a thousand posts of these Jordan V's over the past two days...

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I’ve seen no less than a thousand posts of these Jordan V's over the past two days...

Nike
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Supposed @bodega Dunks - I’m totally feeling these.

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Supposed @bodega Dunks - I’m totally feeling these. Jewel swoosh and the pen marks? Reminds me of middle school. Would love to say ‘I’m in’ but I ain’t paying more than retail and with the way Nike’s

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We all know about the Dior 1’s - a shoe I could absolutely care less about. I, like many of you, also entered the ‘raffle’ to purchase a few months back at retail ($2k) because I knew they’d be sellin

Nike
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We all know about the Dior 1’s - a shoe I could absolutely care less about.

Nike
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