ekhunter
Slightly off topic, but relevant to a degree.
A few yrs back prior the villa - dtlr merger, there was a store in downtown Pgh that was down the street from villa.
The store down from villa sold tees and jeans, but downstairs they had fufu sneaks.
The speculation was that particular villa owner was cool with the fufu store owner and villa was mixing in those fakes with the inventory to increase profit.
That villa would get restocks out the blue, and pairs ppl picked up of shoe on the orginal would have inconsistencies with their restocks, whether the boxes were bigger, or shades of the insoles were slightly off, they didnt quite match up with the initial released pair.
I had affiliates that regularly shopped down there & told me about this. Hence the reason I never once messed with villa. Granted this was the only location I heard of that supposedly was switching out reals for knock offs. Its just to much shade for me to bother with having to sort thru.