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I think more likely: those joints are just sitting cuz no one wants them - they are pretty ugly IMO. I've recently seen them on the shelf at DT HOH.
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I think more likely: those joints are just sitting cuz no one wants them - they are pretty ugly IMO. I've recently seen them on the shelf at DT HOH.
Off Topic: Where can one cop some vintage Stan Smith's (White/Green colorway). Thanks NT Toronto.
Maybe call first 'cause I'm not 100%, but I could've sworn I saw some at Adidas Yonge/Dundas and Champs Yonge St earlier this week.Off Topic: Where can one cop some vintage Stan Smith's (White/Green colorway). Thanks NT Toronto.
http://deadstock.ca/adidas-stan-pack-stan-smith-neo-white-fairway.htmlOff Topic: Where can one cop some vintage Stan Smith's (White/Green colorway). Thanks NT Toronto.
Vm : 4 diff cw of nike free flyknit, close to fsr for each cw. 69.99.
Thanks for the heads up on the flyknit frees! Which colors did they have?
Buroak got tons of colourways tooThanks for the heads up on the flyknit frees! Which colors did they have?
Saw on Twitter a whole lot of winners!Anybody win the Adrift or Capsule raffle for the AJ1 x SBs?
Once again I didn't win... SHOCKER!!!
TL;DR: SGFU
Shops are in a really tough spot whenever they do a raffle. Think bunch of us were discussing a while back that we prefer FCFS - but can understand shops not wanting to do it because they don't want a gang of reseller kids parked out front of the store for days (campouts leave huge messes, looks bad to general public, can get into issues with police/security, if someone gets shot/stabbed/robbed/beaten up while lining up it makes your store look bad).
And there's nothing you can do to prevent multiple entries for the same person/group of people. I'm sure a lot of guys had friends, family, girlfriends, etc. enter raffles for them. My buddy was actually able to double up on a release in his size @ LS Vancouver because he did this. And you can sure if resellers can have a gang of kids lining up for release, they can get a gang of kids to enter a raffle.
Even with a serialized ticket, it can still be rigged. I think the most random way is for a shop to enter raffle data and then use a random list sorter (i.e. http://www.random.org/lists/) and post the video online. Of course, there are privacy issues there too with posting name/numbers up - so maybe a serialized ticket can work. And I'm sure no shop wants to bother with a 3rd party 'auditer' -- cuz honestly, who wants to spend the time/money on that?
To be honest, if a shop sold 'raffle' pairs to friends/families/staff/VIPs, it's not any different than if it was a FCFS release (they can always hold pairs no matter how they sell it). Let's face it, if you were running a shop, you would take care of your own people and VIPs first - would you rather sell your pair to a regular that comes in and spends money regularly or sell it to some random guy that may or may not flip it? I think the bigger concern is if a shop ended up backdooring all their pairs to a reseller.
Even if the raffle was completely 100% legit, Adrift said they had "Sizes 8-12 (No 8.5 or 11.5)" (props for being transparent so people aren't entering a raffle for sizes that don't exist/for sale after staff take) - assuming that's one size run on a short shipment, that's 7 pairs of shoes. Let's be generous and assume they got doubles on some size and say there were 10 pairs to raffle. Didn't someone post earlier that there were 50 entries by the 1st afternoon - how many hundreds of entries do you think they got by the end of the week? Chances are *slim* and some people will still call the whole thing rigged.