urbetterthenme
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Nike Air Yeezy Red October 2 Thread Officially Released VIA NDC 2/9. No BUYING/SELLING/TRADING.
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LOL you just proved my point. If you're on govt welfare and subsidized housing and you're buying any Nike shoes you're doing it wrong. It's just shoes! But my point was that you can start there and make your way on up the financial totem pole. The hustle is real, and more than poor people in the hood, a lot of it is teenagers and young adults who have never made any real investments. Never bought a car themselves, never had a place of their own let alone purchased a home. Clearly that's Nike's demographic too, the 16-24 year old single male. So you start off with a demographic that is one of the poorest to begin with, and target them with ads that directly relate to the sports they play and watch, the music they listen to, and in the case of the Yeezys, BOTH.
It was really easy and effective to create this kind of market for Nike and the intelligence of their buyer can be summed up by the amount of paid marketing they had to do for this or any of the other sell out Jordan releases this decade. $0. Nothing. That's how ignorant their target market is. So is it any wonder why they are trying to be resellers themselves after gladly giving into them? It's all part of the "culture" and nothing about it is intelligent today, regardless of your income.
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We desperately need a subject change. I wish one of them were wearing RO's or something so we could focus our attention elsewhere
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I can agree with most of this but it's a whole other subject I would not want to get into in a Yeezy thread. I will say there are middle class/suburban kids and wealthy kids who buy sneakers every week. They are doing it off their parents money, yet no mention of that and calling it ignorance etc. You are specifically calling out/trying to get on hood people when the sneaker culture involves a lot of classes of many cultures. You're coming off like you are above others, and thats weak.
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bigj505
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I'm not above anyone, but I'm also not blind who is on IG wheeling and dealing to keep their resale game on a weekly basis. Those surburban white kids may be buying from resellers on mommy and daddy's credit card, but the resellers have a very similar profile on social media. Always "on the hustle", thinking that making 20-50 bucks on each pair of shoes is a smart way of not only making money but funding their habit. In some cultural circles, hustling is looked upon favorably over doing real business, going to school, etc. when I look at these sneaker selling accounts and groups across social media, that's the kind of person you run into more often than not. And a lot of people paying $4k or more on these shoes are the same guys stunting with their resell game every week. If you know the weed hustle, it's not all that different, though more glamorous because it ain't illegal.
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Solars are black and not as flashy. These are insanely bright and stand out.
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I'm pretty sure he wasnt bsing, seemed confident about his corporate friends. And I'm pretty sure Darren Rovell also said that they are not restocking. Thats pretty credible
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Lol dudes filled with saline solution. 
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True, the solars are not as flashy, but the platinums do stand out, although not pop, and the reaction is no different. Just my experience by the way.
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Cherry picking my statements but I'm not a walking hypocrite at all.
1.) I don't pay resale.
2.) I don't buy shoes on a weekly basis to resell and am not a reseller unless you're going to broadly use the term to include anyone who has ever sold a pair of shoes for more than retail (which is probably most on NT).
3.) If you are dumb enough to throw down 5K on some already overpriced $245 shoes, I will take your money. Every. Single. Time.
So from my perspective, given that I don't feed resellers and don't go out of my way to make money off each week's sneaker, I'm not the problem with sneakers today. I just was taking a dump and clicked on a link that's going to earn me 5K in this particular situation. If people didn't pay more than retail every week for GR SB's and Jordans, there wouldn't be a market that respects this shoe to the tune of 5K.
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did the manager know they were dropping silently releasing on 02/09? if not he probably isn't in the know enough to know about a restock.
obviously nike keeps anything yeezy related a secret.. that being said, I highly doubt they restock.. maybe on the quarterly restock, but that's about ti.
bigj505
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wondering if it's time to agree to disagree.
ultralightbeam
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It's BEEN that time.
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People HATE when you don't agree w/ them. Moving along
urbetterthenme
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how many of these people ranting even have yeezys or ever had yeezys?
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Skylar Diggins 
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I own a few, and never paid more than $50 over retail.
urbetterthenme
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Paying resell on these aint that bad. You can wear em like 10 times and still resell them for like 75% what you paid.
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Sue Bird*
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own both the solars and plats and can proudly say that I will never resell either of them cause 5k comes and goes and i dont need that money... Guess that makes me an idiot....
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own a few pairs and paid well over retail both times from striking out at retail. Money coming and money going it ain't like you can take it with you, yolo.
