hey i was the fool who stood in line from 7 am to 2 pm for the chance to cop some cyber mondays: let me tell u, if it hadn't copped the coca off this tweet i would have been salty.
for those not from florida, solefly has a troubled relationship with the culture down here. michael jeffrey jordan's current wife's brother owns this chain of stores hence the PEs they throw his way. but this store is so clik claked up they sell presale everything backdoor, all their raffles are BS including the most recent one. silly me, i thought that perhaps just this once solefly would have an honest raffle, being that they were publicly advertising on national sneaker blogs the fact they were raffling out their exclusive jordan 3 lotto colorway & the jordan 1 legends of summer.
how much did they charge per raffle ticket might you ask (nothing in the magic city is ever free)? just $100 of RETAIL, NON JORDAN RETRO merchandise from the store on launch day. so silly me, i say to myself F it ill drop 5 on nike for the whole family for the holidays, w/e. 5 go quick, ended up with 7 raffle tickets. & they really laid it on thick: they had me fill out my name and phone number (make sure its legible!) and had me insert the tickets in 1 of 2 taped up boxes from which they would pick the winning tickets. they assured me monday morning they would post on their IG the winning lotto numbers, and then after the winners picked up their shoes they would take photos of the winners.
with that kind of transparency, unlikely that they'd try to scam you right? guess again. all sunday im trying not to think about it but im like s***, i might win one of my ultimate grails. i mean almost definitely i wont but because i treked over there i am one of the few that has a chance and that in of itself is incredible. ive lost wayyyy more raffles than ive won; all i want is a legit honest chance.
so monday comes, no call. i check their IG obsessively. i just want to see the numbers myself, check my tickets, take the L whatever. no posts, nothing. around 5 pm i call. hey did you guys do the raffle already? yeah man this morning. ok so if you didn't get a call you didn't win right? yeah man. ok cool. still check the IG, still trying to peep the winners. as of tonight, 48 hours later no winning numbers. no pictures of winners. you think if that was a legit raffle they wouldn't have put photos of the winners? especially if that was the story they told a customer who dropped a rack on their grand opening day on apparel to increase his chances on a grail? FOH. this is a public service announcement that as much as i love chino he needs to control his people because that crew has gotten out of control. SOLEFLY IS AS CROOKED AS MIAMI.