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NT General, just like many of you, we have slowed down with our collecting as a result of any or all of the following: shoes being harder to get due to limited numbers/campers/resellers as well as decrease in quality for Jordans.
I've been collecting since 2001, sophmore year in highschool... By 2005, I thought $300 for a pair of 2000 XI Concords were one of the most expensive pairs of shoes that people can buy (as well as Supreme Dunks)
My interest in shoes slowed down around 2007/2008 with the aforementioned reasons. I thought the sneaker culture was on its way down as well, considering the terrible quality of releases (i.e. CDPs especially the XI with exception to the VI) and Dunk SBs dying (even though I knew it was always a fad, unlike OG Jordans which are timeless for obvious reasons) It was hard for me to get rid of some shoes that I no longer wanted in my collection, basically the demand wasn't there.
Fast forward to today, and I see people spending $250-$300 for any GR as the norm and spending $1000+ for Yeezys or Galaxys like its nothing. I don't know where it came from in the past few years, but I noticed in Flightclub the other day, that many of their constituents were tourists and spoiled suburban kids having their moms drop serious dough on shoes. Obviously this was very different from when FC first opened on Green St.
Now my dilemma is, if maybe I should liquidate most of my collection except for a few pairs that are special to me. As a 25 year old, with out of state college loans to pay off and plans to move on to the next step in my life by moving into an apt in NYC, a few $Gs in my pocket would come in extra handy.
Like a thread that I have read earlier in the year, I feel like this is all a bubble and its going to eventually pop. I plan on cashing in now, take advantage of these foolish, idiot, hypebeast kids for all their worth, and buy back my collection once the prices come back down. My problem is that I'm not entirely sure if the prices for Jordans will ever come back down to "normal" levels.
What do you guys think?
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