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For real man I live near Chicago one of those pairs could of been mine
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Jordan Retro 1 OG Royal returns April 1 2017
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A lot of times places get cleaned out with pre-order money and said reseller ain't invested a penny 
of their own money. So you're basically financing your own demise 
of their own money. So you're basically financing your own demise 
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those who did the KixSquare preorders, they sent shipping confirmations
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Haven't gotten one yet.
It's funny how they bumped the price up tho....
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Truth lol
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LOL, truth.
LMAO @ "NTers reminiscing beta days of an app, intended to make getting limited shoes easier for everyone, because resellers w/bots make getting limited shoes online hard. And when opportunistic app opens up to everyone across platforms, NTers wish it still only favored a few that chose one OS/hardware set over the other, thus making it harder for those without said OS/Hardware, just like resellers were doing for everyone in the first place"
hahahaaaaaaaaaahahahaha Super rich, and ironic.
Anyways, what do I know...I'm just some random low post count schmoe that's scored numerous times with SNKRs. On Android. You can roast me by Gifs now.
*goes back to lurk status*
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Fineline and all of those YouTube reviewer sellouts who support him can go jump off of a cliff Jumpman style.
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Just got word from a buddy of mine who owns a boutique in BK just confirmed my pair for retail. Feels good 
Hopefully I can land a reservation for one of these foot apps or I'll just wait out in a FCFS.
Hopefully I can land a reservation for one of these foot apps or I'll just wait out in a FCFS.
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Hank Scorpio
lucky MFer! The anxiety is real on the field!
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Jumpman style
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Anything about quantity?Just got word from a buddy of mine who owns a boutique in BK just confirmed my pair for retail. Feels good
Hopefully I can land a reservation for one of these foot apps or I'll just wait out in a FCFS.
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Seeing alot of royals on eBay for 350 shipped, seems decent to get them early but x2 retails bothers me when you really think about it
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Hit me on the pm gawdJust got word from a buddy of mine who owns a boutique in BK just confirmed my pair for retail. Feels good
Hopefully I can land a reservation for one of these foot apps or I'll just wait out in a FCFS.
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Yeah, that's my thought: Admit defeat and pay double retail before the release, or wait and either score or lose out and then pay double retail?
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I paid resale for my breds before release date and won 2 Raffles and sold Those which made my resale pair free....might do the same here
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Got shipping earlier. I'm already expecting an L on release day so I preordered...only OG 1's I've ever been able to cop for retail are Black Toes....literally struck out on everything else.
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Admit defeat?? The battle hasn't even begun yet!
But in all seriousness... I got my pair of 2016 Banneds for 250$ DS on the resell market. If these are going to be even more widely distributed, I have a feeling A LOT of people are going to regret paying these high prices for pre-orders. Just my 2 cents tho
edit: Not to mention that demand on Jordans has died down considerably in the last year or 2.. I realize it's an OG High 1, but even if you do strike out and are willing to pay resell.. waiting til all the online pairs come in and then jumping on it should still be lower in cost than paying for pre-orders right now.
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What was y'all order date? I preordered when they was $300. Wonder if they gonna b petty and hold out on me to fulfill the ones that paid the current price...
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Problem is, Nike/JB didn't have an average retro release every week or two back in the day. Nowadays, they have so many releases that it creates two big problems:
1.) There are bound to be unpopular colorways because there are so many releases, on the creative side of the house a lot of thought is left out of some (see: 2016 Mango 9s, 2016 Black Cat 6s, etc. etc.) it also doesn't help that these are all GR releases which leads to even some popular cws sitting
2.) People can only spend so much money on shoes-nobody is copping every JB retro but at $190+/pair people are going to be selective with what they spend their money on.
From a Retro Jordan collector's standpoint, this is good news for us as it means a lot of pairs will go on discount and we buy the shoes we actually like with ease. However, from a hype standpoint, this is not good news for Nike/JB-they are still selling retros but they are losing their "cool" cultural relevance as an aspirational product with every release that sits and goes on discount (this can't be quantified but it is the exact same reason Adidas gave Kanye a rumored $100+million deal).
Sadly for us AJ 1 fans/collectors, Nike/JB seem to be using OG AJ 1 releases to try and build hype for other models (like the Royal XXX1s, for example) by keeping their releases limited (which they have continued to do, despite huge GR releases of other models).
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Can't speak for everyone else, but I'm not paying a dime over retail unless I happen to fail miserably on all accounts, which I seriously doubt. I understand these will be in demand but it won't stop me from acquiring at least one pair for retail. Dat optimism.
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This. Also Adidas had NOWHERE near the hype that they do now and it didn't help that Kanye wore almost exclusively AJ 1s for a short period of time.
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