Air Jordan 6 retro “Carmine” - Nike Air - February 13, 2021

[allergic2broke]

Man the plot thickens. So does this mean stock x is not accepting those pairs anymore ?

 

[skip2mylou23]

this makes no sense they cancelled my champs entry with 4 head starts. refunded head starts

go on the champs app again and my entry is back but with no head starts. makes no damn sense

If you go to edit your entry and de-select the stores you picked, they will disappear from the list.

 

[skip2mylou23]

A game that I edited for YT

Is that your Youtube page?

 

[D_eezus]

Man the plot thickens. So does this mean stock x is not accepting those pairs anymore ?

We shall see knowing them they just gonna wave them on through

 

[therealest1]

The stores very well might be doing shady things, but I'm certain the bigger impact in the past roughly nine months has been covid and a lot more people becoming hip to the resale world.

I've seen it with my own eyes, and so has everyone else. Virtually everything sells out on SNKRS; things that never would've sold out before are gone in a blink now. I'm not talking just Jordans. You see it on foot store websites as well.

But where I really have gotten a look at it is at my nearby tiny little resale consignment boutique in L.A. People bring in literally everything and anything trying to resell, and set their prices at laughably--and I mean, hysterically laughably--high prices. You have a lot of people who know nothing about this stuff buying it and thinking they're going to make hundreds. I've talked to the store owners (who are also the workers in there every day) and they've mentioned it to me without me even digging for it.

People bring in worn, dirty fire red Vs and set the price at $400, when anyone can buy a DS pair from SX or GOAT for $250 give or take. I've only popped into the store a few times in the past year to either drop something off or pickup money from a sale (been trying to clean out closet space), and more than once I've watched in person as someone comes in with some worn pair of random GR shoes. Picture some forgotten, no-one-cares-or-ever-did colorway of an AM90 they got on sale at Champs--and now they think they are worth something. And the guys have to tell them, sorry, you're better off keeping those, they're worth about $40 (maybe) before we take our cut. The people get this look on their face like, but I thought sneakers were valuable.

A great example I keep thinking of in terms of how things have changed hugely in short time: In August 2018, I went to my nearby mall 45 min before it opened to buy the black-toe 13s. There was one other guy there for them. I bought a pair from Shoe Palace, asked if I could buy another, and they told me it was a limit of 1 until their manager called and lifted that restriction. I literally turned and looked around the empty store, turned back to them, laughed out loud and said, um, do you see anyone else here? Walked over to Fnishline, bought another pair. Walked to Footlocker just to check out the scene. There were about nine people there buying them. Left and started walking through the mall to the exit. As I passed by Shoe Palace--at most a whole 30 min after they had refused to sell me two pairs--the guys in there yelled at me, Hey, we can sell you more now! I laughed again, flashed my other bag and said sorry, I'm good, you lost my sale. There was still no one there buying them. No one.

Does anyone think if those black toes hadn't released then and were releasing this weekend that it wouldn't be an absolute ****show like everything else? And to think, there were people here on NT in that thread that weekend talking about how those shoes were a flop. It's definitely not as simple as some grand conspiracy of shoe stores ****ing people. The demand has changed drastically, and not because suddenly a billion more people decided they love Jordans and want to wear them.

Ya, it's gone full circle. But I believe the reasons for it are hugely different. There have obviously been resellers for a long time now, but the dog days of the mid-2000s through well past 2010 when it was really difficult to get stuff seemed caused mostly by JB and the clown Gentry limiting every release. The majority of people camping out and buying the shoes seemed, to me anyway, like people who actually loved and wanted them for themselves.

There was no SX, GOAT, apps or bots like now ... eBay was the main resale outlet. It was WAY more difficult to score tons of pairs to resell. Hell, it was difficult to score one, let alone two pairs. And with stores limiting everything to one per customer, you still had people camping out for 24 hours or more to get one pair. Because they WANTED them. For most people back then, it made zero sense to go through all of that effort and to sacrifice all of that time just to buy one pair to resell and make, what, maybe $100 for most releases? People mostly weren't paying like triple or more on resale at the time. It's clear as day that is not what is happening now. Today it feels like the people who actually want the shoes are the clear minority of buyers getting their hands on stuff for retail. And it wasn't like this even less than a year ago. It's ****ing wild to witness.

Resellers are idiotic based on what I've observed. I have the perfect word to describe them that starts with a "r", but it's stupidly censored on this site. Most of them, especially the ones who try to resell general releases are so uneducated about the market. They lack the logic to understand supply and demand. They're too stupid to realize there's too much supply, and little to no demand to leverage a high markup.

The market is saturated with general release stuff in stores, and with too many people in possession of them just to resell which devalues resale prices by default. Add to the fact that there's a lot of people like us on here who persevere to get our stuff and refuse to go to the resale route.

Resellers are too ignorant to realize it's way more work than money for them. It ain't mathematically viable to resell general releases just to gain $10 to $20, or even sustain a loss sometimes because they aren't able to mark up particular shoes. They're too dumb to account for overhead with costs to acquire and fees to sustain for sales which severly cuts into profits. They're automatically incurring overhead with gas before they even have a chance to acquire the shoes.

I don't understand doing all that work and putting in money to acquire the goods just to gain $10 to $20 per sale. You're better off just getting a job and staying there for a few hours if that's the only net gain from reselling shoes. Shoe store employees even think resellers are working hard, and not smart because they encounter it frequently with them coming in their stores stocking up on general crap. You might as well let the government pimp you with taxes working a job instead of letting StockX or whatever site pimp you hard with fees for reselling shoes since you're getting jacked regardless.

I didn't realize there are some who are dumb enough to think they can buy a shoe at clearance and make an astronomical profit based on what you stated. Those shoes went on clearance for a reason, so therefore there will be no demand for them on the secondary market.

What a joke with clowns thinking they'll get a boatload of money for worn out shoes on the secondary market. It should be common sense to bring in unworn shoes ideally, or lightly worn shoes at worst.

All that idiocy with reselling shoes you elaborated about makes me feel good about trying to work smart to get my money during a pandemic. I'm way better off getting unemployment every 2 weeks because all I have to do is use my computer to certify for my benefits when I'm scheduled to do so. That's easy money getting wired to an account registered to me.

I wanted the Black/Infrared so bad but had to settle on the Maroons. JC Penny was slacking.

What a bygone era! I recall JCPenney had $100+ Nike shoes in the '90s! I remember seeing the Jordan Columbia XI, Nike Air Max Uptempo, and Penny I at different times in 1996. I believe they stopped carrying flashy stuff like that in the late '90s though.

Anybody wearing anything special come Saturday? Or should I asked this question Friday evening after the foot apps select winners?

I usually Nair my body before a marquee release. I havent yet.

Always dress up nondescript on release days so you don't draw attention to yourself, especially if it's a Jordan release. I always try to look regular or somewhat broke so I don't give potential robbers an impression I have money and may have the hot release of that day in my hands. You don't want to look like a baller or flashy because it's a target for them on release day.

I still remember what a cool a#$ security guy who used to work at Fox Hills Mall told me in May 2019 on the day the black/cement IV came out. I was kicking it in the mall and talking to him after I picked mine up, he was like "Don't wear Jordans to pick up Jordans." I just wore Dodgers stuff (on-field hat and authentic hoodie), jeans, and some gray Nike Lunar TR1 Manny Pacquiao version that day.

 

[rainking]

I still remember what a cool a#$ security guy who used to work at Fox Hills Mall told me in May 2019 on the day the black/cement IV came out. I was kicking it in the mall and talking to him after I picked mine up, he was like "Don't wear Jordans to pick up Jordans." I just wore Dodgers stuff (on-field hat and authentic hoodie), jeans, and some gray Nike Lunar TR1 Manny Pacquiao version that day.

You talking about Fox Hills in Culver City?

 

[YGmoney757]

Interested to see how things go tomorrow

 

[rbk93]

Still there for me.

 

[Magic33]

StockX has removed the sole mitigation disclaimer.

Their credibility and reputation would have been hurt by accepting those pairs as a normal flaw.

It read like they were going to approve them

 

[YGmoney757]

Still there for me.

Yeah I just saw when I refreshed

 

[trulyfit]

These taken down from SNKRS? My flx apps still good tho

 

[Luis.j23]

These taken down from SNKRS? My flx apps still good tho

Germany SNKRS still has them up.

 

[spoonmanofthehour]

Still up on my SNKRS.

 

[KanyIZZY]

CockX must be confident about the pink pairs being pulled. I think that’s gonna change things for folks on how they approach coppin online...

You're probably right.. but knowing them I just think they dont care.

 

[jshortt]

Their credibility and reputation would have been hurt by accepting those pairs as a normal flaw.

It read like they were going to approve them

Not like they had a ton of credibility in that area anyway haha. Some of the sht I've gotten end seen other people get from them?

 

[trulyfit]

ok i see them on snkrs. Human error on my part navigating the app. Anyways, I'm glad to see the release is still on. This shoe is an instant classic with that OG branding

 

[kmart81]

Is that your Youtube page?

Yeah

 

[kmart81]

You talking about Fox Hills in Culver City?

Love that mall

 

[kmart81]

Going through some pix and came across this after I picked up the Hare 7’s

 

[geno90221]

Love that mall

Phat masses everywhere

 

[zeus0886]

Hopefully the pink scare and stock x not accepting will stop these punk *** resellers from buying

 

[rbk93]

Entered END's raffle. $280 won't sting so much if I end up winning I guess.

 

[kmart81]

Phat masses everywhere

BRUUUUUUHHHHH

 

[kmart81]

 

[spoonmanofthehour]

Trophy Room has a raffle for Carmine 6s up now. I certainly won’t be supporting or buying anything from Trophy Room anymore. I hope they fold now after that 1 debacle. Good luck to the ones who enter there.