For those who don't know I missed out on these during release day. I got off work at midnight before the release, and slept through all my alarms leading up to it, so of course I arrived to the mall late that morning. The first mall I drove by had a line a mile long so I didn't even bother and drove to another one where a friend told me the line only held about 20 or so people. I managed to get there, but sadly the store had maybe 5-7 adult pairs, and the rest were all youths. (
) Even still, to my surprise, when I got home I managed to get these into my cart on FNL's Mobile Site. Sadly, the dreaded credit card fail issue hit me hard that morning and I was unable to check out. I tried maybe 30 times, again and again, until FNL tweeted that my size was sold out.
Since then i'd resigned myself to just not having these, when a friend came through for me tonight. He managed to purchase them on release day, but by the time they arrived in the mail he no longer wanted them. He announced on his facebook that he was letting them go for retail + tax ($181) , and I quickly messaged him asking if he could wait till we could meet up and i'd take them. It took a week to get our schedules together, but tonight, just within the past hour, I finally managed to get the Carmine Vl's:
He hadn't even taken them out of the box they were shipped in. I'm grateful to him honestly. He likes shoes like everyone on here does, he buys them fairly often, he's part of facebook groups; so he's aware that he easily could've sold these for over retail, $200 at the least, and yet he still let me get them for retail anyways, because he just didn't want them. He only wanted his money back and to give them to a person who did want them. Have nothing but respect for him. (Sorry for the rant
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