- 1,480
- 480
How am I trolling lol. What did I say that made you think that. Damn I really thought everything I said made sense.Retail is like $240 after taxes. You wont even pay $200?
I figured you were just trolling with the other stuff you said, you've confirmed it.
No matter what price you buy from a reseller store or individual, you support that industry. These aren’t business people, they are clout chasers. They are the new weed dealers. They just like getting the phone calls all day and feeling like Santa Claus. Do the math on their business and they are making a negligible amount if any. Yes there are exceptions. For the most part they barely make ****.
Dec 11: release
Dec 12-20: Initial fomo buys/resellers buying more pairs to sell/ parents& other buyers out of the loop buying these for gifts - these buyers know no bounds and have money
Dec 20-25: last minute Xmas buys - they spend a lot
Dec 25 - mid January: people who’s hopes of finding them under a tree or at a restock fades - they buy. Students seeing these in school buy. Last big wave of initial buyers
Late January: the hold outs fold and buy these to get it over with, ~9/10 people who planned on copping have their pairs at this point. These buyers know prices so they aren’t going to spend crazy Xmas money..
*early Feb:* ppl replacing worn out pairs? Ppl buying these for full body zoom calls? Are they good in the snow?
Feb - Early April: nothing exciting.. no tax refunds yet. Tax refunds will probably be low anyways but they won’t come before April no?
What is going to keep demand high through Feb-April? I’m seeing people with rooms full of these. Where are those pairs going? They are $225 paperweights at that point. The likes will run out, the credit card payment will be due..
Overall I’m just here for the fun convo and maybe catching a restock, so don’t take my price projection as anything more than b/s’ing. We can bet on them for fun tho but it needs to be a clear bet. I spent more than $80 of time signing up for raffles and pressing add to cart. Financially it would have made sense to have gone to StockX at 10:00:01 on the 11th and not even tried with anything else. But that’s enabling/encouraging the extortion situation we find ourselves in today.
I sincerely just buy these for the memories at this point. like most of you, i have hundreds of sneakers just sitting around, these won’t even get worn until Covid-29 so if I don’t buy them at retail now from one of the big retailers I bought from my whole life it’s whatever. I don’t even like end and dtlr pairs. Anyways I just don’t understand the need to have them now if buying secondary. There are an abundance of resale pairs available. If you reaaaally want to do the math on this, you are probably saving money if you buy resale down the road for $100 more vs putting out $350 today. You are compensating them for tying up their capital and paying to store them.
Again, this is just for fun. If anyone is really projecting the prices years down the line to save $40 on a one pair purchase, you shouldn’t be buying these.
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