Y'all out here doing the most. Buying overpriced socks, cleaners, etc for nothing. Crying 'bout someone else's business whether or not they pick up the raffle that they went into the store for. There's absolutely no reason you have to inform a store that you won't be coming in to get the shoes. Big city or not, the "sneaker game" isn't a new thing. Ask the lucky customer, who happens to be perusing a store when the raffle window closes and they have his/her size in the back, whether or not the raffle winner should have released his pair to the next person. They could have even entered 10 raffles themselves and end up high and dry.
At the end of the day, neither side of this debate is necessarily wrong. "Michael Jordan know what he doing."