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My personal feeling is that if I’m trying to flip pairs in a few weeks time then I bought shoes another person probably would have liked one pair of and got none.
I’m not here to tell anyone how to live, but if you’re grabbing release day pairs to flip for $20-$30 and have no interest in holding them long term you’re contributing to the problem many of us have/do face getting pairs for retail and stress free.
Grabbing outlet shoes and discounted stuff sounds like a different thing to me altogether. I just take issue with people who claim to be part of the community and their job is so terrible they need to sell 3-4 more pairs for each one they buy. This is a luxury hobby. Getting in my way of buying to make it an affordable hobby is akin to people who go out to restaurants and don’t tip. Stay home and out of the way of people trying to live their lives
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To each his own. Flipping pairs here and there is fine especially if it's to pay for more pairs.Basically my same sentiment. To each his own but, having issues with people flipping to get pairs is something I don't really understand. Especially when retail prices are sky high and resell prices are even higher, and especially when we complain about the QC on almost every release. Even if you have money and can afford it, I'd rather flip a pair to get a pair than pull money from the budget. When did it stop making sense to keep money in house? But we should probably stop before the comments start to get removed for derailing the thread .Is this where we are? Is that what this is about? I really hope not. 12 year old me certainly didn't view it that way.
If I'm being honest, I have way more respect for the 19 year kid that hustles and makes $40 a pair off 5 shoes so he can stand in line to get the new AJ1 he wants really bad more than someone that can drop the $400 resell after release without blinking. I'm the latter fwiw. The guy that couldn't care less about shoes but is flipping shoes irks me a bit but I don't know that man's situation. Maybe he's doing it to buy diapers. If so, good on him.
You're basically saying this community is only for the well off and privileged group. I couldn't disagree more.