I have a feeling Nike purposely allows these shoes through just to increase the hype. Imagine how many more people buy shoes in hopes of winning the error lottery. I was just on Snapchat and saw a pair of dunks someone ordered on the snkrs app that was missing the swoosh on one shoe.
If this is some sort of “error lottery win” what’s stopping anyone from just removing the logo and stitching it back on upside down to have a pair of these supposedly desirable fuck ups?
Valid question, and to be honest, there’s nothing stopping them, especially those who have the skill and craftsmanship to execute it in a way that would pass any authenticity verification methods at Nike.
Any legit checks at a secondhand storefront or online stores would almost be rendered worthless or fake since there aren’t any real extra procedures for trying to LC an error shoe, at least not that I’m aware of—not unless the black light has something else to expose.
The problem here is that we now have to rely on faith among others in this community, which is hard because we all know that there’s always a crook looking to capitalize on something like this. The more money they stand to make, I imagine there’s gonna be more people trying to get away with it.
Now, on to the quality control issue at Nike. We all know it’s bad, but nowhere near bad enough for the market to be flooded with errors. It’s just something that we as a community need to be vigilant about and hope that crooks aren’t buying shoes in bulk, creating the errors, and selling them as authentic errors.
This WILL wreak havoc on reputable retailers that are able to LC with great records of authentication. Where they’re able to LC most shoes, throwing a fake error on a real shoe will have them second guessing themselves on shoes that may just have QC issues. It’s gonna be a vicious cycle if fake errors on real shoes hit the market in abundance.
Sorry this was so long winded, I get carried away sometimes. I just wanted to address anything I thought could and would be an issue if we start to get counterfeit fakes. Quite frankly, I’m surprised I haven’t heard the “Nike sent my mom these errors” story. It is quite a bit fishy that sneakerheads always end up with these errors.
Might not be, especially knowing Nike these days
I have a feeling Nike purposely allows these shoes through just to increase the hype. Imagine how many more people buy shoes in hopes of winning the error lottery. I was just on Snapchat and saw a pair of dunks someone ordered on the snkrs app that was missing the swoosh on one shoe.
If this is some sort of “error lottery win” what’s stopping anyone from just removing the logo and stitching it back on upside down to have a pair of these supposedly desirable fuck ups?
Valid question, and to be honest, there’s nothing stopping them, especially those who have the skill and craftsmanship to execute it in a way that would pass any authenticity verification methods at Nike.
Any legit checks at a secondhand storefront or online stores would almost be rendered worthless or fake since there aren’t any real extra procedures for trying to LC an error shoe, at least not that I’m aware of—not unless the black light has something else to expose.
The problem here is that we now have to rely on faith among others in this community, which is hard because we all know that there’s always a crook looking to capitalize on something like this. The more money they stand to make, I imagine there’s gonna be more people trying to get away with it.
Now, on to the quality control issue at Nike. We all know it’s bad, but nowhere near bad enough for the market to be flooded with errors. It’s just something that we as a community need to be vigilant about and hope that crooks aren’t buying shoes in bulk, creating the errors, and selling them as authentic errors.
This WILL wreak havoc on reputable retailers that are able to LC with great records of authentication. Where they’re able to LC most shoes, throwing a fake error on a real shoe will have them second guessing themselves on shoes that may just have QC issues. It’s gonna be a vicious cycle if fake errors on real shoes hit the market in abundance.
Sorry this was so long winded, I get carried away sometimes. I just wanted to address anything I thought could and would be an issue if we start to get counterfeit fakes. Quite frankly, I’m surprised I haven’t heard the “Nike sent my mom these errors” story. It is quite a bit fishy that sneakerheads always end up with these errors.
I’ll stop there, because I can go on and on.