i cant blame people for getting frustrated with the way things are. over the past 5 years I've gotta be hitting less than 10% of the things I go for that have even a tiny bit of resell value and its steadily getting worse now that adidas isnt releasing yeezys everyweek anymore. These past 6 or so months have been better to me than other years have been with retail wins on the lost and founds, a ma maniere 4s, and reimagined 3s, union ajko lows, thats the bulk of my wins in the last 5 years. Some of yall clearly have more luck then a lot of us, whether its cause you know people or because you have a favorable size but its definitely hard out here. Ive adapted though. I trade a ton and I will come out of pocket when I have to. but thats the new reality of it all.
as for reps, i care less about people copping them and more so about the boogeyman that folks have created around them. if i had to make an educated guess, the vast majority of reps are going to people that are specifically looking for reps. if thats how folks want to spend their money, have at it. theres not much about the culture as it stands that id be willing to put a cape on for so if that how people want exist in this space, so be it.