These Replica shoes are getting better and better ya'll. :patrice:
Yung Yogurt
Culo Season
Jordans are wack enough these days to not tell what's an authentic release or not.
Fuc em tho, I hope these replicas take off to a new level and fuc up the brand altogether. Jordans have fukked the creativity game up...nikkas dikkride them so much that Nike rarely puts out heat like back in the old days. Bo Jacksons, Huaraches, and Barkleys are all better looking then jordans...nikkas are just sheep and just fall for the hype.
Fuc em tho, I hope these replicas take off to a new level and fuc up the brand altogether. Jordans have fukked the creativity game up...nikkas dikkride them so much that Nike rarely puts out heat like back in the old days. Bo Jacksons, Huaraches, and Barkleys are all better looking then jordans...nikkas are just sheep and just fall for the hype.
This shyt highlights why China will never fully pop
These nikkas have the Jordan recipe and ingredients. Why make replicas when u can link with other designers, shyt on Jordans and not have to deal with the stigma of counterfeiting? They are always 1 step behind.
Js are ugly anyway. I need them Rick Owens and Margiela reps
These nikkas have the Jordan recipe and ingredients. Why make replicas when u can link with other designers, shyt on Jordans and not have to deal with the stigma of counterfeiting? They are always 1 step behind.
Js are ugly anyway. I need them Rick Owens and Margiela reps
what would be the point of having heat at that point though. the reason behind the sneaker game is to show off wealth/exclusivity to people
sneaker companies would be forced to use better quality materials and also add in new features that are difficult for replica makers to reproduce.
youre saying every shoe is going to end up looking extra complex like the kobe 9 from now on? thats one of the reasons i cant even call myself a sneaker head anymore like these shoes are being too avant garde at this point for a shoe. replica makers will eventually shut down the retro market though no question of that anymore. i feel bad for people that spent a lot of money on having lots and lots of retros in their collection. they might as well flip all those because the resell value on those kinds of shoes will drop astronomically with the proliferation of perfect reps like this
god shamgod
Veteran
Best pair of Jordans I ever had weren't even real.All black 11's with no patent leather 
I use to get stopped daily by people askin where I got em from
I use to get stopped daily by people askin where I got em from
This is truth. Especially when you consider that some of the authentic shoes get to your doorstep with the quality of a replica. Two years ago I received some 4s that had glue on the soles and widows peak where the toe and tongue met
Meanwhile these perfect reps don't seem to have that problem. I stopped buying J's though so I guess its a problem of the past
sneaker heads who flip their shoes because the market is being over saturated with fakes, isn't collecting shoes for the love of shoes. If you have a collection of genuine retro's, it shouldn't matter how many fakes there are out there because you're not collecting just to resell, you're collecting because you love the shoes.
I don't think kicks will become "extra complex" in effort to beat the replica makers, I think the complex look is the style these designers are moving toward in general.
Jordan Brand can cut down on a lot of these problems by spending an extra few dollars per shoe and using premium materials instead of the material they currently use.
part of that love is the feeling of exclusivity and rarity of owning something that other people dont. lets be honest thats part of why we became sneaker heads. look at it this way the price of diamonds is kept artificially high by the de beers company to maintain the artificial rarity of diamonds. if everybody was walking around on the street with diamonds rings on, people wouldnt spend all that money on them to signify love and marriage. that sensation of power and status would be gone. if everybody was walking around in formerly rare/expensive sneakers a part of you would be sick. at least, thats how i would feel. i wouldnt want a girl everybody slept with, for example.
I love the points you made.
A bevy of my collection are retros from 2008-present.
When i go to these "beatsbybrucelee" websites and contrast between a pair of legit Gamma 11's and unauthorized/aftermarket pairs - i can BARELY make out the difference.
It's exasperatingly mind-boggling to the tee.
This year is when i started getting into the "grey market" sneakers due to several reasons...
1. I can't get my hands on the AUTHENTICS without going through loops, leaps, bounds, mounds and burning buildings and dodging gunshots for "A" pair.
2. These rep sites sell the same shiit; unauthorized or not, the materials are extracted from the main factories and reassembled elsewhere, using the same personnel with
the same Technique. I don't need NIKE/JB to tell me that because i didn't get them from Down Town Foot Locker or fukkin' Jimmy Jazzebel that they aren't legit.
In my eyes? Different retailer, same shoe; exact, IF NOT greater quality from rep sites.
Now this concludes...
What the fukk am i to do with all my original retros?
Nothing, I'm a sneaker collector, been since the early 90's... so my sentimental value with the retros will be dear to my heart - irregardless of how devalued they are becoming now
because, as a man who's essentially living his 2nd childhood; i'ma keep these sneaks cuz they're a part of my life, lifestyle and are memento pieces that represent my times as an adolescent
to coming of age and appreciating the OG shoe game and how us old heads have identified with; and that's watching MJ play and wanting to be like him (even if you blew lay-ups at the courtyard
and always lastly selected for pick-up games or not chosen to hoop at all!).
So this brings us to "what happens now".
I say, Nike themselves are a part of the problem ("cat and string" concept, only allocating a select amount of sneakers at release, and gradually releasing them to maintain HYPNITIS") but the
other is social media (i've already talked aboot this extensively in @Brad Piff's sneaker thread, so i won't get into that cuz the horse has had its cakes beat to death).
With that said, and for my forever admiration for sneakers, will still attempt to get real shoes, but buy these reps as a second avenue, albeit with no hassle and for a margin of the price, still keep my fandom for shoes alive.
So me investing in reps is a way to say, "Fukk the resellers, instagram, and NIKE"
As long as these look good, and i feel like i gives no fukks wearing them...
... only my modest bank account can me. LOL.
With that said, next up...
Super Max Perfect Yeezy 2 Solar Red is on deck.
LEGGO!
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I can't believe spend that much on knockoff shoes...
DrunkenNovice
Superstar
#TeamGM taking off 
so has anyone bought from this gogoyeezy site?
i'm gona make a killing off this site. these idiots at work are always asking me where i get my shoes from, and i try telling them its hard as fukk to cop shoes but now im gona just ask them what they want and charge them "less than rape" so it looks like im giving them a deal
i'm gona make a killing off this site. these idiots at work are always asking me where i get my shoes from, and i try telling them its hard as fukk to cop shoes but now im gona just ask them what they want and charge them "less than rape" so it looks like im giving them a deal