@@JLY852 idk what clown world youre living in but its alr happening ..? The secondary sneaker market is dying fast almost every shoe is at or around retail with the exception of a couple popular collabs Idk where tf you been
Exactly, I can't find any shoes at our Nike outlet bc all the re-sellers stand in line everyday to buy up every good shoe they can leaving shoppers with only gym teacher shoes to choose from!! I HATE THOSE DAMM RE-SELLERS
The proper way is to limit how many shoes they can buy at the outlets.. Those dirtbags buy every good shoe everyday and the buyers never has the chance to get anything
I'm a sneakerhead I don't resell shoes and I'll tell you this is the best Best news ever Resellers really made it hard for all the sneaker heads out there to get shoes for the original retail price.
@@dirkahnwilliams1490 $1600 on both goat and stockx for size us 10 man for something that was supposed to be a $160 pair of sneakers is just mental brah most of us would never be able to get or even touch one like ever
It really ain’t fair everyone should be able to go out and buy a pair of sneakers they like instead of being forced to pay double so I’m happy they are doing this
@@donjon2816 they weren't limited before resellers came along. The Travis Scott mochas were 180 retail. I know I'm not finding them retail, so I'm forced to pay resell.
@@monkeyman4455 shit but isn’t it the reason you want the sneaker because it’s limited and you can show off or feel good that you have it and other person doesn’t
@@kizombooooo8457 it’ll require resellers to be more selective on what they think will resell, rather than buying up a general release shoe and returning it, not allowing the general public to cop
A little too late. The hype around Jordans is fading out. Shoes are sitting. People are onto other brands, comfortable shoes or nowadays the pants are covering the shoes.
Exactly 💯! Those RE-SELLERS get on my nerves. They line up everyday at the outlet everyone shops at then buy up every good shoe that's put on shelves. They don't leave nothing for shoppers They really piss everyone off!
Shiiiiitttttt I wear shoes, never returned anything to nike. Been member since 2016 and have not won a single raffle this year 0/18.. i got screen shots of every L
@@TheRobbinbryson I feel you! I always get an email saying I wasn’t selected. F’n BS! It’s crazy how resellers be getting stacks of shoes that haven’t even been released to the general public. The game is F up! F the bots too! I just want a pair for my personal.
You still gonna have to win on the app fam I hate to say it they might still push a few to brick and mortar but I think this is to boost or better yet balance online app sales and help evenly distribute product
I could be wrong too but, i feel like most europeans understand how stupid and worthless it is paying luxury prices for material that isn’t necessarily worth it. Ie. Nike Shoes. Alot of the big fashion houses are based there. I feel like their eye for quality and craftsmanship matters to them. Rep sneaker culture is growing for a reason. People are waking up to the true value of these shoes. Which are mainly hyper inflated from forced scarcity, rather than from innate quality and actual rarity.
Might be why Confucius relegated traders to the lowest social class, as they are not making anything new & are basically resellers. However there're resellers/scalpers in the country arguing the marked-up prices that they sell at is fair compensation for their effort spent to source & buy their wares, and that they are obeying market forces
This is a really good first step, tho I feel it doesn’t address the full issue, which is bots. It was mentioned that Nike will track account activity based on sales and returns, however, how can this be accurately tracked if bots are scripted to purchase certain drops? One user can run a bot that acts as 1,000 different accounts. Unless Nike cracks down on account creation and verification, bots will continue to scoop up most of what we can’t get.
This ain’t stopping nothing. It just stops people from returning product. They will just sell it for cheaper and take the hit. But it ain’t saving no one who just wants to buy shoes
Nike is not the only shoe brand in the world. The world of sneakers doesn't revolve on them. This will be better for other sneaker brands and startup sneaker brands.
@@rayyanshaikh5591 I mean they keep up with inflation but yes I know the quality of reps v retail. Nike qc be getting pretty sloppy over the years. But reasonable in relation to buying retail over buying on the 2nd after market for them.
They could just release more of the same shoe... but they won't because they like keeping their shoes rare bc it adds more hype. Resellers and limited releases ensure that all of their products retain high demand and immediately get bought out. The only reason they're cracking down on this is because returns loses them money, the whole penalizing resellers part is just a coincidence that they're going to focus on for good publicity. They want resellers, they just don't want them returning the pairs that don't sell well.
The return policy could be effective the rest of the policies are written by people who have never ran a sneaker bot, doesn’t understand VCCs, jigging addresses, pre verified SNKRS accounts etc. basically don’t get your hopes up at most this is just going to affect profit margins for the mid to lower tier resellers
This helps the resale market and hurts dubious resellers. No more bulk ordering to inflate demand then having Nike reimburse you for your bad investment.
Bro I have a feeling you don’t know how Nike botting works, this will at most resolut in us being more careful what shoes we go for and cause a slight inconvenience at most. I don’t see a reason how this should actually destroy reselling??
@@kangarojack3814No they don’t. They could easily keep restocking them forever, they choose to keep quantities low even though they get these shoes made for nothing.
@@noelno_tv4418 pretty sure if you look up RU-vid right now reps of your favorite shoe, you will get a at least five or 10 reviews. That’s not even on top of the other people that buy them without telling anyone at all. To say that no one buys them is a complete fallacy, people by them they are just either quiet or very loud about it. There are a whole channels dedicated to it on RU-vid the most notable one being CEDAZ and he is helping Nike right now Or at least provided evidence that stock X pass his face in the ongoing Nike stock X lawsuit.
@@hp7639 Cedaz made a whole video explaining how he got the best reps and it got through stockXs verification, he then sent this over to Nike support which was then sent to their lawyers as evidence in the court case against StockX. I would love it if more shoes were just available on the stock shelves where I could buy them easily. I don’t wanna have to pay double or triple the price of msrp because some dude and his bot got 20 extra pairs to resell.
I would think this could potentially do just that considering bots are probably making very conspicuous purchases Nike could then flag and refuse to fulfill. Maybe not tho
@@falovmalor7337 hardware bans are gonna be a thing for call of duty soon, so I'd think maybe Nike gonna talk to Activision about something like that to stop botters, ppl will be pissed but they shouldn't have associated with a reseller
@@falovmalor7337bruh, learn how to use punctuation. I had to read your paragraph three times to make it make sense. Try a PERIOD after the word "purchases".
It's an even better time today a year later in the buyer's market. A ton of these resellers have been pretty much forced to sell their stock at or below retail to cut losses as much as they can. I've found some great deals the last 6 months or so. This all reminds me of those PC gfx card resellers using all those bots to buy up new cards. They can suck one.
@@grandparodent haha piss off reseller. Go get a life and a job, you only make $5 profit. You won't get anywhere, ever, and once you die your $19 of reselling profit will be taken by your family and used to buy two big macs at mcdonalds
Chances are, The company you work for, is a scalper. That’s what busienss is. Disney makes their Minnie ears for $1 overseas. And sells them at $34.99 at the theme park. That’s far more abusive than what resellers do.
@@albertodeulofeu5277That’s not scalping if they’re the ones manufacturing the product. If a scalper were to buy all of the Minnie ears and raise the price, then it’s considered scalping.
@@albertodeulofeu5277Disney's product is sold by Disney themself at Disneyland which is their own theme park. How that is the same with a Nike product,sold by Nike and purchased by someone not from Nike,then reselling the shit 1000 dollars than the retail price 150 dollars??????
Good. I’m not a sneaker head but I’d like to buy a pair or two that I like every now and then and not have to just through hoops or pay out the ass. Resellers treating shoes like they’re Pokémon cards and I’m over here just trying to wear some shoes lol
I'm happy reseller are going out of business,,,,,I bought my first pair Nike Dunks in over 10 years, I refused to pay 2x to 5x over retail....the funny part is I got them off the nike website for $58...
Okay see this makes sense, I’ve been checking recently and shoes that were once going for $1000 are now like $400 and shoes that were $400 are now like $100, puts a smile on my face I might actually start buying shoes
Yessss, I’m glad they doing something about it! I was wondering how the last few drops still been in stores! I was for sure thinking the Olympic 6’s was gonna be hard to get but they’re still in stores! Smh ppl done fucked the sneaker game up
The stress these people hold onto daily on prices going down or up etc must be through the roof. People will lose their lives over this, and thats the sad reality.
This is Good. But Remember what happened with GPUs… The retail stores decided to become the enemy by bumping up the prices almost as high as the Resellers. So i wouldn’t doubt they’ll do something similar with Shoes.
This is a turn for the better in my opinion, I hate resellers that buy out all hype shoes, that then causes prices to be jacked up for no reason other than them being selfish and wanting to make some easy money
It is about time cause i don’t like to see shoes like neon 95 og being scooped up then being listed on ebay and stockx for at least $300 right after the release. Resellers just making these shoes unavailable for people. It is totally againts from nike’s will like they want to reach as much people as they just can. They want people being able to enjoy their shoes. I totally agree with Nike.
it probably won’t stop them but i hope it does. it’s literally so annoying how you can’t even get shoes nowadays without paying a ridiculous amount for it.
Assuming this actually does something, this would be awesome. People who actually want to wear the shoes they buy won’t be paying triple the price for them.
People that make their living reselling sneakers will find a way to adapt......or end up being crushed by Nike (which is honestly what I hope happens).
Hopefully. Because of the crazy prices in resellers companies that are making high quality Reps are at an all time HIGH! I’m 100% buying a pair of high quality reps at close to retail price before I would pay $1000 for a pair of $180 shoes.
If that happens that would be a very big W for team @Nike because the effort it took me to buy The jodan 1 high off white unc chicago was immeasurable and I don't want to do that for any heaters.......
Nike needs to produce more product, and stop strangling retailers with such limited stock deliveries that many of them are have allegedly been resorting to selling fakes as the real deal.
I fully agree with the decision of Nike. I hope it stops inflating prices for people who just want to buy some nice shoes to wear instead of investing in them.
Purchase limits will most definitely put the clamp down on reselling. If the limit is 2 or 3, it will definitely force resellers to sell for a significantly lower price they can sell it for, maybe even to the point that it is not worth it. No matter what, there will be a huge impact.
Ya it would stop 99% of resellers because 99% of resellers are broke so they couldn't afford a restocking fee an it should already because rule saying if you buy in bulk you can only return one of those pairs
Just don’t buy from resellers. If everyone stopped buying from resellers they go out of business. But unfortunately there’s too many people willing to pay 10x more just to have a pair they like.
Spoiler Alert: I worked for NDC from 2012-2019 and this has ALWAYS been their policy. They even use algorithms to determine priority by sales. Meaning, the more BS you bought throughout the year, the better chances of scoring. Also, if you’ve ever submitted your acct username to a bot system, your acct is automatically flagged. It doesn’t tell you nor does it block the account, it simply restricts it from winning. The issue is this only effects a SMALL population of accounts, clearly. It’s impossible to prevent because the majority of mass resellers get their bulk from local boutique with Nike accounts. If a boutique is caught, they’re banned but that doesn’t stop them.
Nothing wrong with that. As a retail business I wouldn't want people to bring back what they because it lost in value while in their possession. All other things you mentioned can also be enforced by any retailer or wholesaler, regardless of product. Nothing to see here.
This is great news. I like to collect shoes. But the resellers make it impossible to get the most desirable pairs without paying at least $100 over retail.
I bought some black cat 4s Guy was like you gone resell them I said nah I’m buying them to wear the look on his face was like “why” Bevause they shoes that’s why smh . Paid 180$ worn once . Crazy . Now they 600$ plus.
If its making it harder for the average consumer to find the shoe at authorized retailers forcing them to pay massive inflated prices from resellers, seems appropriate.
They should track down stores who sells it backdoor… j1 lost and found is already everywhere nike could just hold the released date and make knventory to everystore whoever caught should be ban
Nike needs to do something like cancelling orders of the same sneaker to the same household or P.O. Box. No one should be able to get 5x pairs of collab sneakers to the same address unless they are in different grade sizes like kids, preschool, women, men. Only then should anyone ever be able to get so many rare sneakers from Nike.
They’re just saying that to please people they’re not gonna do anything. If Nike actually cared they’d produce high numbers of hype pairs but they won’t because they’re in on the reselling game too
If you just wear them, like regular people, you shouldn't need to get a new daily shoe for 2-3 years, timeframe in which a super discounted cool sneaker can be found at outlets. Be patient, be normal. Don't think an overpriced shoe will change who you are or will enhance something about your life. It's a shoe
Im not against reselling, get that bag, but why you gonna make me pay double the price to wear something that you have stacked in a pile of 10 collecting dust
