well im not talking about every item in America I'm talking about sneakers in relation to me and my intentions for purchasing them. I don't buy sneakers for a profit, I buy them to wear them therefore even if their value goes up 500% it is irrelevant to me. I understand the market of collectibles but again I don't look at a sneaker as a collectible. Obviously it is a suggested retail price and the retailer can sell it for whatever they please, but I am only stating this as it relates to sneakers so I'm not saying you're amazing spiderman collection isn't worth anything calm down.
To simply put it I'm just saying if I miss a release I will not pay an inflated price to get them. I don't know how that's ignorant, but whatever you say champ
Well, to me, I just intend to read that comic or use that stamp to mail a letter to my penpal in Nepal that I lost touch with after the third grade, so to me it is only worth its face value. ...How is that different from what you said?
Nobody cares what YOU think an item is worth because you don't set the market. Nobody cares if YOU don't view sneakers as collectibles because the world says they are... more so than comics or probably stamps at this moment in time.
Your comment was ignorant because you were ignoring the larger context in which everything you were speaking on exists, in favor of prioritizing your own, personal, anecdotal, and biased view. You may be right about one thing though - ignorance suggests that you don't know better. So, maybe it wasn't ignorant. If you do know better, but were refusing to acknowledge the larger truths because they conflict with your personal preference, then you were just flexing your cognitive dissonance instead. Hope that's a meaningful difference for ya.
And, I assume you've never sold a shoe? And, if you had a full set of silver boxes and something happened and you needed money, you'd sell them to me for box price? Because the "value" other people put on them is irrelevant and your view of their "worth" is the only thing that matters? And, to you they're worth like $80 each?...
I 100% disagree with you. You cant compare a pair of retro sneakers to a comic book. theres definitely a gray area of what a shoe is worth and when it is deemed worth more than retail, but If nike suggests 100 dollars for a shoe at a given time, I also consider anything higher than that resellers market price if the MSRP of the shoe has not gone up.
This is barely even English, but you are wrong. There's a grey area for what anything that is deemed collectible is worth - from a sneaker, to a comic book, to a Renoir. There's no distinction between a "resellers[sic] market price" and a market price in this conversation anyway. Once a sneaker is off the primary market, it is only available on the secondary (reseller) market. The reseller market is the market. ...Hell, sometimes the "reseller" market begins in the primary market as retail locations mark up the price.
A lot of you seem to forget that Nike doesn't sell shoes to you or me (in SBs even more than anything). Rather, they sell products to retailers. The consumer isn't even a part of the very first, true primary transaction in the life of that product - that's between Nike and the retailers with Nike accounts. The reason you see stores so freely adjusting box price in SBs is directly related to that factor. All other Nike products are a lot easier to get through Nike, so there exists a large scale "box price" competitor. This isn't the case for SBs because they are not sold through NDC and barely through Nike brick and mortar stores. Without that anchor - it's all arbitrary and all a guess. ...Something is worth what somebody is willing to pay for it. A sneaker has no intrinsic value - it isn't a natural resource, it isn't a conductor of electricity, and it doesn't matter what's written on the side of the box either.
I will waste no more time on this.
