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What a lot of resellers don't realize is that they are the reason why some people buy fakes because the original ones become too expensive.

resellers turned sneakers into beanie babies

I was today years old when I learned that people pay $800 or more for sneakers.

$800 sneakers. lol. Clown world.

That's why I'm rocking running shoes now: Asics, New balance. Comfortable as hell, and great price. I don't even look at basketball shoes anymore.

i can't remember where from but the quote went something like "bro why are you so proud of a hobby that makes you terrified of puddles and bad weather" nothing better describes the idiocy without even mentioning money.

What mind boggles me is that there are those that walk around in $500 shoes but have no car.

I ran a massive warehouse, and had 240 workers. I wore $40 Skechers. I had dudes were paying MANY hundreds of dollars a month on sneakers, while I put away 20% per month into my 401(k). I am fully retired now, with several hundred thousand dollars in the bank, and my dudes have a closet full of sneakers.

to be fair, if I couldn't get any sneakers I want retail then i'll probably just forget about it in a week. i've never bought my sneakers from a reseller.

Resellers are the Drakes of the sneaker culture 😂

I said this yrs ago. Anything fabric is not an investment.

Well done. I agree. I waited 3 years to get a pair of tennis shoes that a reseller tried to get me to pay $437 dollars. I paid under retail $106.

Sneaker hype..is over..the bubble is bust..😂

"A shoe is only worth what one is willing to pay for it" is what I've always gone by. I pay retail or sale but never resale. NEVER PAY RESALE! let them brick and hit outlets. Patience is KEY

I bought a pair of size 12 black, white , gum bottom SB dunks back in 2015-16 for $65 because I liked how they looked. Wore them 2 times because they weren't very comfortable. Decided to put them on again about a year ago and my neighbors son said they were $1k dunks. I didnt understand but he showed me the stock x listing for it. i was flabbergasted to say the least.

In the city I live in there's a park with a train for family and kids to ride for ten minutes for $5 but nowadays you can buy tickets online. It's always sold out now but the train is empty. People buy all the seats then try to resell the seat for 20$ but no1 buys it so the train goes around but empty all year

BRO, LITERALLY EVERY SHOE IS THE SAME!!! YALL SHEEP

You know the feeling you get when you catch a mosquito on you, and you smash it? That's the same feeling I get seeing a Reseller sitting on 10s of Thousands of Dollars of shoes somebody could've actually worn and appreciated. Hope they all go hungry...

Resellers taking fat L in the cheeks 😂 While Nike is laughing stuffing resellers cheeks with a big fat W 😂😂😂

Scalpers of any kind are pretty down right low people. Especially during the Christmas season

I left the sneaker culture 20 yrs ago and just came back 2 yrs ago. Im disgusted. Great vid bro!!!

one reason nike is making so many pairs and dropping them so often. to stop resellers

As someone who hates Jordans, I never had this issue with resellers It’s sad that people be spending 500 dollars on shoes, not realizing Nike and Adidas have plenty of pairs that are cheaper and more comfortable I will buy a pair because I genuinely like the feel and look of the shoes I could care less about trends It’s the best when you do your own thing

The way I see it is, if you buy all the shoes that I want I’m not going to you for said shoes. I’m good with all the footwear I have right now. I always think of what Red said in Shawshank Redemption “How often does a man look down at another man’s shoes ?”

Most of these high-priced sneakers don't make it into the market. Instead, they are circulated to other dealers and speculators, who believe they have a valuable item that will yield a return. Truth, not many consumers were dropping 2k on Jordans. It was dealers buying from dealers.

Panda dunk releases show what Nike could do if they wanted to end resellers.

The Nike app is gold. It's easier to get shoes now. Just copped the jordan 6 white and black 12 hours after they dropped.

Resellers ruin every industry! Great video!!

When the PS5 came out I was very surprised how the scalpers were dictating the price of the PS5 and XBox. I hated it. I also learned sneakers were being sold by scalpers as well and the markup was insane. I'm happy to be a boomer where sneakers don't mean anything to me anymore.

Resellers get mad for people getting fakes yet they are the reason for that no one in their right fkn mind wants to pay 400+ over retail for a Jordan 1 that looks normal asf. Majority of them don’t even do what they’re made to do WEAR THEM.

I buy shoes at Wal Mart, because they tend to wear down just as fast as the expensive ones 🤷

Love this video. Remember back in late 90s early 2000s I could go into any shoe store in my area and get any new drop that came out. Now I gotta pay 200% tax minimum or have to wait for someone to accept a low bid. Something that used to be an exciting thing has now been turned into a huge ordeal.

I don’t know or care about sneakers at all, but you still managed to make the video interesting and enjoyable- even for a person like me. Well done, sir!

I used to wait outside of footlocker at midnight to buy my sneakers. Id bring a portable chair and just talk to everyone else on the line. But by the time I went to college I realized that it was a stupid thing to buy and moved on. Now im seeing sneakerheads who have been long in the game desperately try to sell their shoes online because of inflation catching up to them.

This is gold! Next up gucci & LV bags

I couldn’t imagine spending over $120 on shoes that look like they were found on the floor at Ross. I’ll stick to something classy that will match my fit vs walking around like a clown.

I try not knock anyone’s hustle that is legal BUT these resellers are not cool. I have two boys who love shoes like myself and it sucks that someone wants to buy all of the kids shoes and turn around and charge double. Thank god for second hand sneaker shops

Great video. I don’t even pay retail, I wait for sales or promo codes.

*Bro, it's just sneakers, what the hell are we talking about?! 200$?!My most expensive foodwear are my 14 hole leather boots (140$). I'm not paying more than 50$ for sneakers or other shoes.*

Yesssssssss! There is no reason to be paying more than retail!

Every market has a bubble. Eventually that bubble bursts.

It feels good resellers are losing!!! 😝

Had a buddy I grew up with and he wasn't a reseller but he would go to sneaker releases at footlocker and buy two pairs of whatever was coming out. One for him and one he would resell. Made like $50 a pair sometimes. He wasn't trying to get rich but in his mind it got him his pair for cheaper so he used it to his advantage.

The thing is these shoes have no real value: they're not that good looking, not very comfortable, they are easy to ruin. Soon as thee new fad comes in, their price will drop hard

Glad I had a kid and now rock dad shoes.

I’m never buying reseller prices ever

I have five pairs of shoes. Two utility boots, a set of sneakers, two pairs of dress shoes (brown and black). I did not know buying sneakers was a thing. Today I learned.

Havent bought a new pair of shoes in about 4 years. Paid about $200 for 3 pairs of shoes and theyre still intact. No tears or nothing. Im glad i never gotninto the sneaker culture like so many others

I just don't get the 'sneaker' obsession. As a Brit, to me, a pair of trainers is just something to put on your feet. And then go out and accidentally step in dog sh't wearing them.

I was lucky from a certain point of view because the enthusiasm for these things didn't disappear immediately when I saw the amount of resells that took place. there are many other passions to delve into, waiting for this phenomenon to let go and leave others with the pleasure of delving into it without having to go crazy.

Good. I always love the cool shoes that are released at footlocker and get so annoyed when these resellers buy them and increase the price for greed

Guy is mad that he lost $20k on the Royal Reimagined AJ1s but he’s also the reason I got mine for $130. I got a small collection but they’re easily my go-to so I may end up buying another nice pair, and probably get them for much cheaper. Thanks again!!

I spend my good money on New Balance. Their top of the line 990s and 2002r are easily worth the $200 spend because of the technology in the shoe. It's so comfortable. I buy reps of my Jordan grails like the Chicago because there is absolutely no reason for me to pay $2000 for a shoe that has 0 technology besides hard rubber and leather

I don't follow sneaker content at all, in fact this was a random recommendation in my feed. But pretty cool to see. As someone who only buys merrills and pumas. It's nice to know that other brands are starting to go down in price maybe if I ever have kids I'll be able to afford them a decent pair of sneakers for those every time their foot size goes up by one or at least once a year like my parents used to do. Back when you could buy Adidas and Nikes at Walmart

GOOD!!!! Because I STILL can’t get a pair I’ve wanted for a year! And I refuse to pay a ridiculous amount for it.

Good point on the used sneakers. Have been buying new sneakers all my life all the way back to the days of camping out the night before for a pair. Just recently I’ve been buying slightly used pairs on EBay. Far more cost effective.

Nothing better than getting sneakers under retail 😤

This warms my heart. I'm not a sneaker guy but resellers have ruined almost every single hobby and priced out the average person. Just trying to enjoy something that seen them get fucked is amazing.

The same thing is happening to retro video game resellers. Resellers bought up all the physical retro games. Driving up the price and creating scarcity. The people who actually wanted to play the games just end up buying repro carts, emulating, and going digital on storefronts. Nobody is paying $400 for one video game. Eventually, the bubble bursts.

Need this to happen with the Kobe Nikes I miss the days of just going into Nike or footlocker and just getting Kobe’s at retail price

Scalping like this is in everything. I remember the graphics cards getting this treatment when the 30 series came out from nvidia. It's just that with sneakers, the companies have been helping everything by making everything limit edition.

Went with my buddy to "buy some shoes" once. Imagine my surprise when he met some dude in a parking lot and bought shoes out of his trunk.

Never appreciated sneaker resellers. Ppl understand that the fakes are just as good. They are made by the same ppl who make the “real” ones.

I don’t understand why they thought this would continue to happen/profit if people couldn’t afford them or chose to invest in the over priced silhouette

Idk much about shoes, never been my thing, but I like this message. Also; Some dbag has the scummy idea to buy up the vast majority of a specific shoe, just to find out that, at the end of the day, they are still only shoes. That’s hilarious

The problem with dunks is that they are made out of low quality material and resellers were selling them for 300$+ few years ago.

It's like with every other re-sell trend in history - the market is closed, the audience is limited, there comes a moment where the trend stops reaching new people and the old ones have enough of stuff, so the well starts to dry out. Most people don't care to have the newest Nikes, some people want a specific pair and nothing else, few people can afford/want to gather dozens of pairs.

most resellers are after hype pairs, which are 90% ugly and boring. 🤪

The same thing is going on in the vintage reselling world in the Sates. The clothing resellers sell to each other, hype the same 5 shirts ,manipulate the market and gouge the average consumer who doesn't understand the details of vintage. I've heard Drew Heifetz talk about manipulating that market to see how buyers react. I give the vintage reselling world 5 years to bust.

i always say the problem is not the resellers, it's the people buying from them.

I buy em used and fix em up my shoes icy asf 😂😂 i payed 13 bucks for some air max 95 repainted them washed the mesh man i save over 150 bucks !

Sneaker reselling is a new world run by matrix

Damn man, you right. Thinking about it, took my sons to buy shoes, out on 4 pair at 400 or so dollars, function utility and looks good, but nit the name brands....they said it, I agreed, they all looked alike, hundreds of pairs, just different colors. Mid 90s, converse, with the gold star and all in black, those were the last wow sneaker, I bought a pair to show my kids, blew their minds, now they saw the older cuts and a hundred bucks, is a win win for all of us

Thankfully I’ve stuck to a few sneakers since I was in elementary. Nike Air Force Ones, Jordan 9’s / 11’s or Concord’s I guess, and Converse Chuck Taylor’s. Just solid shoes that aren’t too sought after and I can still afford and look clean.

There's 2 reseller sneaker stores in my area and it's always empty in there 😂

It is the same with comic books and sports cards almost all collectables have lost their mind since covid great video and informative thank you

I like what you did bro. I’m from Jamaica queens. I remember the days of leaving high school on a Friday afternoon at 212PM taking the bus down to the colly block and paying literally $20 extra tax free from all my people. This is 2002 and on. Them days are over and I never thought they’d come back. But here we are…. I’m in the Jordan edition of sole collector magazine on a 2 page spread and I eventually bowed out. I couldn’t keep up. I had a life and a career. I had to grow up and move on

The thing is most of these kids were just already rich kids anyway. I went to high school with a ton of kids like this that made reselling a "career" while their dad is a Wall Street banker in Manhattan and paying for their apartment in Williamsburg and funds their "business."

I stopped wearing fashion trainers when I turned 40 now I only wear handmade Crown Northampton trainers. They’re made with Cordovan leather (which is the best leather in the world and comes from a small area on the hind of a horse) and they have an oak cork (which takes about 5 years to produce) midsole that molulds to the shape of your foot so they’re made with the best materials available by artisan craftsmen and women and have more in common with an expensive handmade dress shoe than they do with trainers. The leather they’re made from doesn’t crease it rolls so you never get unsightly creases in the toes of them.

I have gone to collecting vintage vans shoes and just wear those.😊

Whats crazy is if they weren't greedy and only had lets say a 40-50% increase instead of a 150%+ theyd still make decent profit good and they wouldnt be as hated as they are, but nope they want to make back what they spent with just 8 pairs

I love that the reseller market is dead and retail prices are dropping. People got fed up with not actually being able to rock anything bc they were insanely priced for just some shoes.

I love it!!!! You know how infuriating it is to go buy some sneakers and every time i want a specific pair they sold out? Im 40 im not making a line to buy sneakers f that

Keep buying dem bricks bruh 🤣🤣🤣👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Does this mean I might actually be able to buy a pair of shoes again? I don't care about the fancy ones, I just want a plain old pair of running shoes without having the check the website constantly. I miss the old days when I could just go to the store. But they're all closed now so forget trying on shoes to find which ones you like best.

Resellers in every type of collectible market have driven the msrp price up dramatically. For example skateboards that sold for $80-150 years ago have shot up to $130-500 , it’s WILD and the bubble burst with some resellers just now realizing it

I’ve been buying a lot of Brooks lately. I get the Venice Beach Kobe’s on SnKrs. Couldn’t believe it.

Now do the same with multi home owners who rent rooms. Home prices more than doubled in the last 10 years.

Resellers exist for one reason. The number of shoes manufactured is significantly less than current demand.

Man i tried a pair of hoka. I doubt ill ever wear Nike again. Man my back, and knees love them.

I'm glad it's greed like so many things. Great video and channel.

Something similar happened here in Mexico with the Costco desserts. There can only be one Costco per big city, so many people live far away from the store. People who sell desserts on the street saw an opportunity and started re-selling Costco desserts on their tables (there are a few near my home and I buy from them because I'm not driving across the city just for a cookie or a chocolate muffin). So I see nothing wrong with that, it's a win win, a box of 6 muffins it's 100 pesos, which is around 17 pesos per muffin, and they sell them between 30 and 35 pesos, super aforfable since a slice of cake from starbucks is like 80 pesos. HOWEVER, Other people got the wrong idea and mistook these small bisnesses for a gold mine. And there was a massive avalanche of Costo cakes re-sellers buying all the cakes the moment they were out, and then selling them right by the side of Costo and super costly. Like... my dude! The reason I buy from re-sellers it's because they are near my house and they are affordable! If I'm already in the store why would I want to buy your cakes at a higher price?! Like seriouly, on January, there's a tradition in Mexico where we eat "Rosca de Reyes" and they were around 300 pesos in Costco, there was a guy who baught all of them from his city and was trying to sell them at 1200 pesos. Mexicans can hardly afford necessities, and this guy thought we were goint to pay 1200 pesos for a piece of bread. He then graced us by lowering the price from 1200 to 900. Still nobody bought them, and he had to sell them at les than 100 pesos past the festive day. Re-selling only works if people keep greed out of their sistem.

I was recommended this video out of nowhere- not a sneakerhead, but it is also interesting. We had something similar during covid with AMD and Intel CPU and GPUs. Scalpers would use bots to buy tens, hundreds, even thousands of CPUs/GPUs at once and resell them for insane profit margins. People sadly did buy them.

You said it bro... sneakers app is guaranteed disappointment. I've been so upset and been put in a terrible mood so many times when I've took an L on a pair of shoes I've been wanting badly. It's almost made me want to say fuck Nike and never buy another pair. But I still keep trying and keep getting let down. I really hate Nike for not rewarding loyal customers who spend thousands on their products. We should always get priority over virgin accounts but nope....

So glad I got given trainers when I used to audit shoe factories. Saved hundreds.

You know what kills me? Maybe i noticed it because ill go 5 years between buying a pair of jordans, 2 years between AF, and 2 years between air maxs, but the quality of the fakes are surpassing some of the REAL thing these days. Thats whats been killing me for the last decade.

Good! 🤣 resellers working too hard just to mark up 20$ and if they dont sell it they just return it. imagine the time you put in doing all that bs. They not finessing nobody but themselves. Good for them

Panda dunks at my job are the team shoes. Lmao errbody got em

Meanwhile I'm here with 2 pairs of leather sneakers made by a local shoemaker brand that only costs the equivalent of 76 USD, and yet they're still going strong for two years