Someone earlier was commenting earlier on the zebra resell price flying up. Here is what is happening, folks:
1) There are fake zebra yeezys on the market, have been for months now (anyone with Instagram knows this).
2) The people with those fakes are currently putting them on StockX and GOAT before the drop date in an effort to sell them as soon as possible. Why? Because they only have a small window to sell fakes before StockX and GOAT gets official shoes in hand to compare them against. In the meantime, GOAT and StockX are forced to GUESS if their shoes are legit without anything to compare them against.
3) Further muddying the process? An Adidas-exclusive shoe means a longer wait for everyone to get them in hand. No footsites or consortiums directly handing people their shoes so people know they are legit. What this creates is a ton of question marks over GOAT and StockX's heads for a longer period until they get ADC shoes shipped to them. They've been burned by plugs in the past with legit shoes (the StockX Human Race incident), so that's not a reliable checkpoint.
4) The hype around this release is causing an unprecedented amount of people to pay resell pre-drop...which is causing resell to go up and up and up.
Fake zebras going up at an insane rate, authenticators having to wait longer to get legit pairs to compare against, people losing their minds over the fear of missing out...It's a perfect storm. -or to be more clear, a perfect sh** storm.
This drop is going to be great for Adidas restoring the "limited" label to Yeezys, but is going to stink for them with the sheer amount of fakes that people wind up with. Be careful out there on this one, brothers.