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Solid investigative research. Almost 100% right. I only shared the cliff notes version but the net net is the same. Only off point is the less than 1500 part for zebras. Local resellers in NYC hooked me up, long standing customer.As a fellow size 13 (and gamer of the resell market) I wanted to believe BigSean23s tale, so I looked at the numbers and tried to make it work. Here's the only way it's remotely close to possible:
-He had a pair of Turtle Doves in hand already.
-He sold them for the $2100 number on GOAT a few days ago (presumably to buy Zebras for resell)
-He shipped the TDs out.
-A few days later he had a Turtle Doves bid on StockX for $1100 accepted for him to purchase, essentially giving him the same shoe he had previously owned and an extra $1k (well, more like $825 after shipping and transaction fees).
-He used that profit money to pay resell on Zebras.
If that is true, it's a solid move. The big problem is that then the story wasn't "cool enough", so the timeline got changed and numbers were embellished too far. Even to someone like me that gives NTers the benefit of doubt, the big giveaway was saying he bought size 13 Zebras "for less than retail" when all was said and done with the TD profit money. That size hasn't gone for anything less than $1500 at any point (and is hovering around $1900-2500 now) so regardless of timeline you ain't getting that pair for $1k.
The empathetic part of me wants to believe there is a cool story buried in here somewhere, it may have just gotten embellished too far to the point of not making sense...especially with two sites that post the amount and date of their transactions. Lol or it's just complete BS in which case that is that a random and bizarre fairy tale to post.