Brehs, can we talk about the sneaker game for a minute?

[Chris Cool]

These lames was not into 1s till kanye started wearing them and tiktok took off. I remember them shyts would sit back in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

I've struggled this year, but managed to get electric green 6s, blue/volt Griffeys and hwc lebron 8s.


Only tips I can give you is to check ebay and offerup religiously. Also try finding shoes on UK and EU sites.

Yeah, 1s were trash but I wouldn't say nobody wore them. Overall they were the most easily accessible. There's a hype and prestige to them now that wasn't there 10 years ago though.

 

[Family Lives Matter]

You get what you can get

I never pay over retail because shyt ain't that serious and I'm not 18 years old realistically I should of grown out of that goofy shyt by now

 

[kaldurahm]

I don't collect nor resell sneakers, I just cop shyt I want to wear and wear them. Best way to go about it nowadays. I usually cop sneakers that nobody else fuxks with.

Like nobody really rocking Nike joyrides, but imma rock them shyts

 

[Bless't]

I'm white and I've been wearing Dunks since '97.

 

[The War Report]

Corny muthafukka wouldn’t know what drip is if it wasn’t for kats from the hood making brands like Nike pop.

 

[Shang Tsung]

It's a pain in the ass getting new releases but it's lowkey a blessing if you happen to have OG colorways or pairs that only released once

I take care of my shoes and can get good money for my worn 1s and 4s

 

[CaughtInTWebb]

Those Travis Scott 1's are nice as hell.....

 

[Dad]

I’ve been rocking New Balance. Copped the Bodega & trying to cop the next release of the jjjjjjjjjj’s.

I stopped chasing Nike’s. I agree with everything you said.

 

[Exlurkernegro]

Yeah, 1s were trash but I wouldn't say nobody wore them. Overall they were the most easily accessible. There's a hype and prestige to them now that wasn't there 10 years ago though.

Not saying nobody wore them, but they weren't as coveted back then.

 

[vino]

shoe game is done. The prices are insane, the bots and backdoors took over. The good reps and real pair are identical. The shoe reviewers know the reps are identical as well but can’t come to admit. Stockx Goat Ebay etc be authenticating reps because they can’t tell the difference. shyt is over. There’s a few threads where a dude paid 8k on some limited Jordan 4’s numbered and all from sockx but they were fake. Stockx confirmed that the dude purchased from them. Here’s the story below. The shoe game done for shoe enthusiasts unless companies make changes. They need to do mulitple shock drops of these releases or pre-order for people who just like shoes.

 

[The War Report]

Jordan’s in general were easier to cop back then in the early 00s. I could walk in a mom and pop store and cop.

 

[Chris Cool]

Not saying nobody wore them, but they weren't as coveted back then.

Yeah, I agree. They weren't coveted at all. Sneakerheads weren't even checking for them like that.

 

[CarltonJunior]

StockX selling fakes is truly a stain on the game. Them existing in the first place wad bad but selling fakes?

 

[heart]

Yeah like so many others have said, getting hyped releases are few, far, and in between.

Its sadly hilarious when I get notifications from GOAT saying "X just released, go and cop" as if its retail and not the $200 mark up. Its so easily to resell online sneakers now that a small child could do it.

Pre GOAT/STOCK X, it was pretty much EBAY as the main source for buying resell, if you missed a release, you could always try fighclub as well which had high resell prices but not too bad given the times. But ebay started getting flooded with fakes, and people needed a safer way to know they were not getting taken advantage of with the sneakers along with Hypebeast killing the game as well...

Gotta follow the money, Adidas and Nike have stock in goat/stock x. The seller fees and buyer fees are insane, sometimes you lose more money than you gain when you're reselling because people don't really have the disposable income to sit on the shoes for a while and need to make their money back.

My motto is "if I can't get for retail, move on oh well".. Too many people give in to the hype, pay ridiculous resell prices and have buyers remorse.

 

[Tupac in a Business Suit]

Dhgate is mostly trash tho if you serious about buying fakes that are almost 1:1 I wouldn't recommend using dhgate

Yeah I get what you are saying. My point is that if you want sneakers you don’t need the bots or stock x markup. Plus, as someone mentioned earlier, these shoe companies have employees and proxies who sell on these sites.

I guarantee you if people stopped buying from resellers the prices would drop and the market would be flooded but the thirst is real when you are young.