Tinfoil hat huh, you can't have a discussion without trying to sound smart huh while posting conflicting information. It's not as simple as FTL selling to GOAT. Simply put FTL/GOAT now have means to manipulate supply and demand. FTL obviously doesn't have the same rules as your mom and pop shop or every FTL store would have the same sales at the same time.
Yes, they have the same rules. Nike isnt going to let them sell directly to Goat. FL will still sell their stock at retail to their customers. They'll just make it easier for their customers to sell on Goat. Nothing more.
Why do different FTLs run different sales then?
1. FL has different regions. Each region has different pricing. They also have hundreds of SKU's per store. Sometimes it's as easy as the store manager not pricing his stuff correctly.
Yup, saves GOAT the time and hassle of verifying the shoes because they are technically coming straight from the retailer. FTL will probably charge some sort of premium fee on top of what the normal selling fee on GOAT (idk the exact amount I'm a StockX person myself). For it to make sense it has to
2 and 3 are the parts I issue with. That incentive for GOAT to sell more can lead to improprieties. When I think of FTL selling on GOAT I was thinking bigger than an employee at a CPU.
I think it will be interesting to see if Nike has a response or not concerned at all.
FL pushing people to Goat rather than StockX really isn't an issue. Those pairs are being resold one way or another. There's no difference in little Billy waiting in line at FL and then dropping off at the Goat counter inside FL than little Billy waiting in line at FL and then driving to UPS to drop off for StockX. Billy is reselling that shoe either way. Now little Billy doesn't have to go to UPS and he'll probably get paid immediately at the Goat counter inside FL bc Goat doesn't have to authenticate that shoe. They know it came from FL and it's legit. The end result is the same, the process was just much easier for little Billy.2 and 3 are the parts I issue with. That incentive for GOAT to sell more can lead to improprieties. When I think of FTL selling on GOAT I was thinking bigger than an employee at a CPU.
Perhaps little Billy's FTL acct will even become preferred since he's supporting both platforms along with other accts that use both platforms. FTL still sells to consumers and GOAT gets increased sales. A win win
Right. And what's the issue with that? How has that affected you? Only Bill was affected.
Na I don't think that'll happen. I could see your Goat account getting top tier status (less fees maybe?) if you use FT and Goat both regularly. I don't think there's any chance that FL's distribution of their stock will be affected by this.
I'm speaking of multiple resellers accts getting priority impacting my non reselling *** getting kicks
it's not an actual assumption just a theory based on a post in an ongoing convo. I'm the tin foil hat that thinks FTL investing 100milly in GOAT looks like conflict of interest whereas others don't think so.
Nike will absolutely not allow that. Nike isn't going to allow FL to rig their raffles so Goat users win all the pairs.
Not saying every pair, I'm saying a preference, like money spent. A hypothetical 11m headstart. How would Nike even know who FTL winners are what they've done with their purchases anyway?
Yea thats just not going to happen. The FL rep for Nike is involved in all that ****.
It was hypothetical but if you don't see FTL/GOAT partnership as a possible conflict of interest that's your prerogative.
Tag 'em
I wasn't at a certain spot this weekend but be interested to know what happened. We've been told by other members
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(no shot but its in the thread no use being ambiguous) that Nike reps wouldn't let anything shady go on.
Tag 'em
Go on...
Was it a stock x pop up or GOAT. I think the majority of unclaimed pairs have always been purchased by people looking to flip.
Both are the same with flaws. If Foot Locker will sell it to you, StockX and Goat will too. They don't do QC. They aren't hunting a perfect pair for you.
