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I wasnt talking bout flaunting or getting his info,
Jw if neone knew his job
Jw if neone knew his job
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Any input on eBay seller zadehkicks? He has 5000+ positive feedback, but gets early releases and recently had a run of Royals. Seems legit, but any info is appreciated.
so are these grey market shoes sold by people like rstor on taobao made in the same factories that nike contracts and made with the same materials or is misinformation. I read that this is the accepted theory but i really see nothing that undoubtedly proves this theory.Good thread, but ALOT of misinformation in here...
whatup A2?And to be fair he only has a single size of 2 of his early pairs, so they could be samples. He did have a fsr of green glow IV's though.
You would think out of the 1,000+ customers, one might've known a thing or 2 about kicks to call him out on fakes or variants? Smh
whatup A2?
I'm from Chelsea... GO DAWGS!
well they arent fakes so...
Sorry.Hahahahaha
They sold it to they grey market
Sounds so funny
There seems to be a cycle going on every couple of days.
1. Somebody calls them fake
2. Someone offers evidence to why they're not fake.
3. Someone asks a question that shows they haven't read more than 2 pages of the thread.
4. Repeat.
There seems to be a cycle going on every couple of days.
1. Somebody calls them fake
2. Someone offers evidence to why they're not fake.
3. Someone asks a question that shows they haven't read more than 2 pages of the thread.
4. Repeat.
It's no use really. There will always be people, no matter how many times it's explained,
Who say it's fake. Some people can't, or don't want to, accept grey market shoes are not fake.
was waiting for that to hit this thread.This guy answered a lot of the same question posed in this thread. He clears up a lot of misinformation and clarifies lost of stuff.
In order to simplify things, to make shoes, a factory needs basically 3 things:
1. The Tech-Pack and Spec Sheet
2. The Molds for the sole and midsole
3. The actual materials
Nike does not assemble shoes, nor do they actually produce the materials used on their shoes (Neither does adidas, Reebok or any other large company). These are all contracted out to other companies that specialize in those fields. Nike has these factories produce samples to their specs and when they confirm the sample, they produce a final Spec Sheet of every material that will be on the shoe, along with a list of how much each component costs and who will supply the material. After this is all added up and calculated and audited intensely then the factory's negotiated profit per pair is added on top. The factory then orders the materials from the approved suppliers and Nike pays the factory to open up the steel molds (very expensive to do full size run in multiple sets and this is why companies only open up new molds if they will be able to sell a large quantity to amortize costs). The factory produces the quantity Nike ordered and paid for and ships them to Memphis. Along the way Nike has QC people in all their factories like the Pou Chen group pulling pairs from the production line to ensure the quality is as they have ordered.
Now, being that Nike is not producing the materials themselves, nor are they assembling the shoes themselves, something has run afoul along the way as people over there who are involved in the chain have obviously noticed how much the product is worth back in the USA. Not helping at all is the fact that Nike has opened a sizeable amount of molds of every signature Jordan a few years back for the CDP packs which were produced in very large quantities across a range of different factories. By looking at this you can kind of fill in the blanks as to what is happening and where these shoes are coming from....