Making a shoe harder to get for consumers=Keeping things special?
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Yes … obviously ... It’s not special if everyone has it.
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Making a shoe harder to get for consumers=Keeping things special?
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Every single iconic grail in the sneaker game was a limited release. In some cases extremely limited. You cannot come up with a single example that was widely accessible to everybody. There is nothing wrong with keeping some releases exclusive. Nike/JB does not owe you sh*t. Only desperate hypebeasts complain about exclusivity.
Exclusive and special are two different things fam.Yes … obviously ... It’s not special if everyone has it.
I buy sneakers to wear and enjoy.
me never buying them does not affect me in any way.
Exclusive and special are two different things fam.
If a product's value is high based on rarity that is a result of limited materials or the passing of the creator/manufacturer, I'm fine with that.
If a product's value is high based on false scarcity created by the manufacturer in order to create/continue hype for their products, and it is desired only because the dollar value is high as a gauge of this rarity, **** that. And all these people that are angry because the shoe they over-paid for isn't going to be as valuable because they're not going to be as rare, *****.
You should like the product because you like the product, regardless of the market value.
That's a damn lie at least with shoes and clothes... Price & "quality" has more to do with the perceived luxury than scarcity.literally every luxury item we buy is based on false scarcity
cars
clothes
shoes
watches
that's why they are luxury items
That's a damn lie at least with shoes and clothes... Price & "quality" has more to do with the perceived luxury than scarcity.
This is not the case at all lol. Maybe your personal grails. But there are a lot of grails that were GR releasesEvery single iconic grail in the sneaker game was a limited release. In some cases extremely limited. You cannot come up with a single example that was widely accessible to everybody. There is nothing wrong with keeping some releases exclusive. Nike/JB does not owe you sh*t. Only desperate hypebeasts complain about exclusivity.
He's a reseller, he's in several threads with these takes lolThis is not the case at all lol. Maybe your personal grails. But there are a lot of grails that were GR releases
Every single iconic grail in the sneaker game was a limited release. In some cases extremely limited. You cannot come up with a single example that was widely accessible to everybody. There is nothing wrong with keeping some releases exclusive. Nike/JB does not owe you sh*t. Only desperate hypebeasts complain about exclusivity.
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Nope, not true.
I guess the term grail can be subjective but there are tons of AM1s that were not limited releases that are considered "iconic grails"
I'm not opposed to limited releases but some of the pairs that skyrocketed in price were not limited in the first place. SBBs are one of them. Resellers just capitalized on everything and the market became skewed because of it. I can blame some of the buyers for that too since they paid the ridiculous prices.
This is not the case at all lol. Maybe your personal grails. But there are a lot of grails that were GR releases
So in other words you're a hypebeast... I genuinely hope you aren't over the age of 21 talking like this fam.Pigeons, Tiffanys, Paris SBs, Undftd 4s are some of the most well-known and iconic sneakers in this game. You are seriously fooling yourself if you think their exclusivity played little to no role in how popular they became.
You do not have to be a reseller to appreciate exclusivity. For some reason only in this hobby do mfs act like they can’t understand this concept and use stupidass terms like “artificial scarcity”. Even little kids get it. As a kid I used to be into Pokemon cards and still I never acted like it was unfair how they didn’t make enough Charizard cards for everyone who wanted one. Grow tf up fr
So in other words you're a hypebeast... I genuinely hope you aren't over the age of 21 talking like this fam.
Respectfully, are you on drugs? Why are are randomly quoting me about pandas?You can talk all you want about how Pandas are a clean versatile colorway… I actually agree with all that. But its complete lack of exclusivity is what keeps it a NPC shoe and it’s no coincidence why us collectors don’t give a f*ck about no Pandas