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Here read this again.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of buying a knockoff/bootleg/fake item to pay a fraction of what the real thing costs? That's the biggest driving force behind the entire knockoff market, to make and sell inexpensive (and obviously poorly made) replicas of higher end goods. People know and evaluate exactly what they're getting when they buy a knockoff pair of Jays vs retail legit version.
And your streetwear analogy makes no sense as that goes for every retail brand out there. Supreme charges $45 for their screen printed graphic shirts because they can. Same reason why freshjive or stussy charge $25, or Black Scale and Diamond charge $30 or why BAPE charges $100. These companies set their price point based on what they expect to make on their product and because they know their established name will sell itself. But that's way off tangent from the issue at hand.
If you think that simply because your pair of shoes come with a receipt from Nike/FTL/FNL etc., make them "real" then that's your view. And of course price is a red flag for items, but charging higher than retail but staying in tune with the resell market makes sense that these shoes aren't 100% fake and goes against the entire bootleg philosophy as I said before. What comes in a price? Cost of materials, labor, craftsmanship, production costs and what the profit margin is set at. What's in a resellers price: time spent obtaining shoes, price they pay, demand, supply and what they choose to want to make off a shoe. Your average $160 pair of Js goes for an easy $235+ after release depending on hype. Most early release sites charge just about the same as expected resell but add a little more because they also include the amount they feel is fair to what people want to pay to have it months early. You think the Chinese haven't caught wind of the game?
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of buying a knockoff/bootleg/fake item to pay a fraction of what the real thing costs? That's the biggest driving force behind the entire knockoff market, to make and sell inexpensive (and obviously poorly made) replicas of higher end goods. People know and evaluate exactly what they're getting when they buy a knockoff pair of Jays vs retail legit version.
And your streetwear analogy makes no sense as that goes for every retail brand out there. Supreme charges $45 for their screen printed graphic shirts because they can. Same reason why freshjive or stussy charge $25, or Black Scale and Diamond charge $30 or why BAPE charges $100. These companies set their price point based on what they expect to make on their product and because they know their established name will sell itself. But that's way off tangent from the issue at hand.
If you think that simply because your pair of shoes come with a receipt from Nike/FTL/FNL etc., make them "real" then that's your view. And of course price is a red flag for items, but charging higher than retail but staying in tune with the resell market makes sense that these shoes aren't 100% fake and goes against the entire bootleg philosophy as I said before. What comes in a price? Cost of materials, labor, craftsmanship, production costs and what the profit margin is set at. What's in a resellers price: time spent obtaining shoes, price they pay, demand, supply and what they choose to want to make off a shoe. Your average $160 pair of Js goes for an easy $235+ after release depending on hype. Most early release sites charge just about the same as expected resell but add a little more because they also include the amount they feel is fair to what people want to pay to have it months early. You think the Chinese haven't caught wind of the game?
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