You won't be disappointed. They're amazing in person (if you haven't already seen them). It's hard to get a true idea of what the colour is really like.
I think it also depends on what the op wants to do with the shoes. If they have no interest in keeping/wearing either pair, then yeah, 'market value' doesn't really matter. If they want one more than the other, then I would use those as a starting point for negotiations.
Assuming CBSA does their job correctly, you should only be saving the $12 brokerage fee. There's a lot of misinformation on here that you'll save tons by self clearing. In cases like that, it was the CBSA agent not doing their job correctly and miscalculating.
Tbh, I'm generally open to trades, but my list of wants is very specific (there's not much that I don't get on my own). On top of that, I will expect the cash added (on either side) to be a fair amount. Most ppl try to offer $50 in cash when the cash add should really be $100 or more.
Same boat re the age and bills part. I guess it comes down to whether you really value the fact that these are the original release/knit. For me personally, UB are one of those shoes that I don't really care which iteration it is. If I wanted an all white, it wouldn't really matter to me if it...
Here's my thought on this, and ppl will probably disagree with me. I generally don't resell shoes once I have them in hand, and here's my logic. You can always make more money, but you can't always get the shoe back in your collection. For a lot of shoes that I'm on the hunt for, it's not even...