grapeape
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Those are not B grades. These came out some places last Saturday and were just on the shelves there. There are quite a ways to get a release like this and be able to make money selling them $10-$25 below retail, just not for regular dudes like us. Especially when the small stores, like the ones that most likely have a manager/owner selling one or two FSR's on eBay, were able to put them on their shelves a week early with no issues. These shoes got to normal retailers last week too, and those managers get discounts and I can tell you that there is no limit to their shadiness. Selling early and using discounts combined with stolen gift cards will really cut into the cost and allow you to price these where they were on eBay so that they go quick. Then you have the brand reps. They always take their little pinch out, and on a GR they will take a large pinch spread across their entire district and sell those quickly for a double rep cost at very large bulk quantities. These aren't a GR, so rather than sell 160 pairs to each one of their 6 guys at $50 each, easily a $26-$34 mark up per pair, they were only able to get a total of, say, 50 pairs skimmed off the top of their district at their cost. Sell those for under retail and no matter what they are going to go and go quickly. So no worry of sitting on inventory (the reason they usually sell bulk at a mark up and move on) and they still make more than any other reseller could even hope to off of this shoe. I'm sure there a multitude of other ways for people in the right position to take advantage and sell off just 12 pairs of shoes. Just some food for thought, and an explanation of how this can and does happen.
