Why counterfeit sneakers are booming

[africngiant]

Bruh but you could scoop those for 10-20 above retail.

nah not those colors in my size, they’re reselling for 200+

 

[HTXBreh]

I never said they weren’t. Those pics or similar have been passed around sneaker forums for years.

My point was simply, your average white person wasn’t into sneakers like we were.

I mean every white guy I was in school with wore Nikes.I didnt see them wearing nbs and off brand til like middle school.

 

[Peauxboy]

I mean every white guy I was in school with wore Nikes.I didnt see them wearing nbs and off brand til like middle school.

Yea, they’ve always known brands or had favorite brands. However, they didn’t know what models from those brands to wear.

They’d be getting cooked and be like, what?, they’re Nikes.

 

[Family Man]

the better reps don't cost much less than authentics. We don't buy shoes to tell people that they're authentic, we buy them because we like the way they look. Another thread made about reps maybe a month ago led me to purchase a pair of cherry red 11s and I'm very impressed with the quality.

How can one tell that these are fakes?

 

[Matt504]

How can one tell that these are fakes?

 

[Family Man]

If that is the only cosmetic difference then it's no brainier to get the reps. What is the price difference?

 

[Hannibal Fox]

The mental gymnastics folks do to justify rocking fugazi kicks is hilarious

 

[Yuzo]

First and foremost stop caping for cacs.

Reps are popular because artificial scarcity is back firing. Similar thing with the music industry when everything went digital. Labels charging $20 for an album with 2 bops and some mid, then cried foul when folk’s started bootlegging.

Designers doing the same and worse. They double dipping off of retail and resale. I hope reps humble them. fukk em.

when we were growing up everybody probably remembers how bad rep shoes looked. you probably remember that kid who got roasted for wearing fake shoes and that alone was probably enough to make you never want to wear fake shoes. its crazy to realize this, but kids today will never know what that experience was like. they will never grow up stigmatized by that common experience. they will never carry that with them like a lot of the old sneakerheads still do. a kid today cant even roast someone's reps because what is there to even roast. to the naked eye they look indistinguishable. now reps remind me of peds in sports. we say its wrong out of a sense of tradition but we know everyone is doing it. more and more i see younger sneakerheads accepting reps as the new way, look at names and faces of the people doing the most hating. its old men that refuse to adapt to this new world we are in.

 

[The ADD]

Wouldn’t do it myself but if people want to do it and it makes them happy

 

[Matt504]

If that is the only cosmetic difference then it's no brainier to get the reps. What is the price difference?

The difference is ~$70 if we're talking retail but you can't find these at retail so the difference is even higher when buying from resellers.

It's a no brainer.

 

[Family Man]

The difference is ~$70 if we're talking retail but you can't find these at retail so the difference is even higher when buying from resellers.

It's a no brainer.

If they want to restrict that amount and drive the price up then that shyt deserves to be bootlegged.

 

[Jone2three45]

How can one tell that these are fakes?

Pay close attention to the threading and use a UV flashlight.

For this shoe I’d say pay attention to the white mesh, thickness of the shoe strings, and wrinkle of the tongue.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Back in the day a bootleg...was a true bootleg.

Quality...color..everything.

Tbh...I don't even know if people are wearing real or not

 

[Family Man]

Imma get some bootlegs too. Where y'all cop them from? Alibaba?

 

[africngiant]

Imma get some bootlegs too. Where y'all cop them from? Alibaba?

i seen timssneakers were pretty good, what you think, @Matt504 ?