You are right, they will eventually get back to you, but that is only when they see negative publicity threatening their business. I had a long, drawn out interaction with them. I bought AJ 6 Infrareds. He told me, the fake pair was improperly fulfilled by OGS and Vitale contacted me immediately, only after I posted on NT. Funny story, I bought mine off eBay and VitaleKicks was selling them. 4 complaints forced eBay to remove VitaleKicks from selling on eBay. Vitale negotiated a deal where he would find me legit 6's, give me a free pair of double nickels, and give me his price on a pair of 11 bred lows when they drop. It took nearly a month to fulfill the 6's, but they finally came and checked out legit. To this day, I believe he got them from a personal friend's collection or else why did it take so long, but I can't substantiate this. He did send the double's in a timely manner, but the bred lows...after many weeks of waiting, our text communication finally ended when he continually gave me the run around and I found my size at IndexPDX.com for $40 more, so I dropped VitaleKicks. He was happy to let me go. Based on this entire thread and my experience, I am 99% confident VitaleKicks works with other outfits to fulfill orders and I believe all of them get away with selling fakes at just below legit prices...until they get caught, then they back pedal and try to do the right thing. I wasn't going to write back to this, but can't hold my tongue anymore, b/c this just isn't right to those legit consignment stores that 100% of the time do the right thing.
Don't put yourself in this precarious situation and just simply pay a little more from a reputable consignment store like IndexPDX. At the wage I make in my career, multiplied by the time lost dealing with VitaleKicks, I could have bought everyone on this post multiple pairs of your favorite AJ's.
