again bad comparison. You cannot compare a pair of retro sneakers to a parishable, edible item. Sinceyour not understanding let me just make it simple:
there was nothing wrong with my english other than a run on and some apostrophes.... english nazis on the internet......
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?...
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.
PLUS SKATE SHOP (800) 448-7723 has a size 8 for you and they're selling them at box price. There's no need to repost shops that I already dropped.
well it matters what I think when I'm giving MY opinion... I never said it was the correct opinion, I was just clarifying that when I purchase a sneaker it is because I like that particular sneaker for what it looks like, not the value from the "sneaker community". I don't know why this enrages you to write paragraphs but hey if it makes you feel better knock yourself out. You're the ignorant one trying to make it seem like I said these were factual statements... just how I feel broham. No if I had a stack of kicks to sell I would sell them to you for the inflated value because that is what you value them at, regardless of what I would sell them for they still would be worth box price to me holmes.
this doesn't make sense. they are worth, to you, whatever you sell them for...
That's my point is I don't look at them as a way to make money, but if i could make that money if you will pay for it why not. If jordan decided to sell some PEs that he got for free and he just wanted to make some $ he doesn't have to value the sneaker at the price he sold it for, to him it could mean nothing more than a way to make a few dollars. The value to the seller doesn't need to match the value the consumer places on it. Difference of opinion is what makes the world great I have my view you have yours simple as that.
If you have the shoes in hand and wouldn't take retail for them, even though you would buy another pair at retail, aren't they worth more to you then?
+1 Thanks for the info, was looking at a pair on Ebay for 110, size 12 copped...
You could say that. Or it could be that you know OTHER people value them more, so they will pay more. Just depends on the person I guess
Thanks! Didn't have to pay any tax/shipping either.
