ULTIMATE LEGIT CHECK GUIDE | JORDAN 3 REIMAGINED WHITE CEMENT | WATCH BEFORE YOU BUY | REAL VS FAKE 

pretty much the same quality and materials used and if u have to look this hard to tell the difference then u might as well buy em lmao

​​@@tjgrafiks The only real problem I have with fakes is when people try to sell them as legit. I get that many of the good fakes are made in similar factories and all, but it's still bad to try and pass them on as real.

@@aristosachaion_ I agree as long as the consumer is aware they're not buying "original" the only difference most of the time now would be the actual log. shade and colors always vary even with "originals" lol

Just buy what you can afford. No need to fake being rich. There are plenty of good cheap pairs of shoes like blazers and air max.

noticed the same with mine - 1 pair has uv glow stitching around the toe, 3 pairs do not

@@bobbyklein1496 you mean from the replica pairs?

400? It was like 250

Or just buy what you can afford and stop trying to fake everything.

Outside of studying what the production dates are for all fake batches some of the reps differences are so subtle that you need to verify with an authentic pair. This shoe in particular is pretty difficult to pin down outside of the colors. You might be able to to get away with using any jordan shoe to verify something like the font on the shoe box label but in a world where reps are as good as they are sometimes it takes comparing to a real pair, which might mean going to a resell shop or paying for a service like legit app.

I got LN4 😎

My real ones also say LN3

The jumpmam on the reps is deep red also

Refer to my comments below about the vw1 tag

Lol this is a different pair so it gets different video. Third pair will be part 3 and so oh

I’m not here to push anyone in a particular direction. While reps might be functionally fine and quality on the same level but they have accuracy issues (which is a turn off to a lot of people) and they dont gain value. There are pros and cons to both

What gave it away? Only way you’re really telling these apart is by color and that’s pretty much impossible to do with out having a verified authentic pair to compare it to because of lighting

@FBKICKZNGEAR 2.0 if you take a good look at the fakes the shape is slightly off the toe box is thin at the tip as it should be but the toe box right before the laces should be slightly rounder. The fakes have more of the shape of the retros we're use to. I also noticed the color the laces was off.

@@williamking8464 mind sending me a link to that persons video? the authentic pairs were made in atleast 2 confirmed different factories and theres defintely some variation that i have seen in the toe box across the shock drop pairs so far

@@fbkickzngear2.0 trendz*

@@fbkickzngear2.0 so VW1 wasn’t one of them??

Hell naw🤦🏾‍♂️ you the type to where em and say they legit😂 lame lil boi

Nah

Cope.

@@Aintshitfunny well shit ain’t that funny

Toe box height varies from pair to pair. Shape matters more. When I get a chance to film my later videos I’ll show how my two retail pairs have different heights

Same here ma wife pairs says made in china hers retail

@@DietWoke23 man this shit got me messed up because I got a pair from goat and usually on the shoe tag for 3s it says LN4 LN4 or LMN mines says VW1

@@juskicknit909 there legit i got mine checked

@@DietWoke23 mine says LMN and I bought mine from flight club

@@DietWoke23 yeeeaah im sending mines back to GOAT lol I need a pair with the LN4 on the tag smh every video Ive seen of the reps has VW1

Legit

the soley alone card is wrong. look at the other aspects of the shoe

Not necessarily. ld compare it to another pair to see if you see any of the color differences I pointed out in the video

​@FBKICKZNGEAR 2.0 from what I'm able to clearly see and compare (shape of back of shoe, red colored jumpman, lace color) my pair checks out on those aspects i think. Also the shoebox mine came in checks out on everything (my aged box look is the same as retail, elephant print paper packaging and the quality/look of paper pamphlet that lists the construction of the jordan 3) as far as I know. With all of the decent looking fakes floating around it makes me paranoid and maybe I'm just overthinking but you never know.

Mine are authentic and are also saying vw1.

It's okay. You have the asian version. Same thing goes with the jordan 1 lost and found. There are alot of differences when it comes to the US and Asia version

Until you realize that that the authentic shoes were made in multiple factories and don’t all the have the same shape.

Just make sure that whatever it is it applies across the board. The authentic versions were made in many different factories so not all authentic pairs will look a like

Your pair isn’t fake. The vw1 code does exist on authentic pairs. It’s just that ALL reps have that tag as well. There’s so many other stuff that you can point to in the video. Don’t get hung up on that

Exactly the same

Please read the rest of the comments. It’s been brought up and I’ve answered it

The shoe is most definitely a replica. The tags are faked just like everything else on the shoe. Rep sellers dont own any particular batch, they just sell whats most convenient and available to them at the time. So times they have good batches, some times they have shit batches.

doesnt mean yours is fake.

You mean the sticker?

@@fbkickzngear2.0 On the back of the insole it has the shoesize and the fake one doesn’t. You can pull it out and see that’s another thing you can legit check.

ill take a little worse QC over inaccurate colors but thats just me!

no

Mines too! Where you from?? Maybe that has something to do with it because I got mines off of goat and they came from Germany so maybe a EU release?

So I was going through shoes and I looked at my girls black cat 4s she got from footlocker and they had VW1 so I’m not so skeptical anymore

@@juskicknit909 yeah im from france and just checked in store to see if their ressell pairs got the same, also got a legit check, apparently i’m good

Mine came from Malaysia I’m over here legit checking my pair as well that I got off goat! Lol I hit it with the black light everything cool no stamps any where but the size tag is what’s throwing me off the made in Vietnam and vw1 but I got my wife’s pair retail in store here’s from Indonesia gs size

Mine have vw1 on tag i got authenticated they legit 💯

There are authentic pairs with VW1 as well.

there are pros and cons to everything. and its still important that if youre looking for a real pair that you can validate that youre getting a real pair

Having a wo code is fine. Fake factories just picked that one too copy

A lot of the authentic pairs I get on this channel are possible because of shoes that I bought for retail (or even resell) that I was able to trade up because they increased in value. This allowed me to get a lot of higher ticket items for my videos while spending less money. And you can’t do that with reps. On top of that, MANY reps are t newly as close and accurate to the real thing as these 3s are. Take a look at the two Jordan 4 sb videos I’ve posted. I’m not knocking people for buying reps. Clearly I have them too, but let’s not act like there’s no point or value to buying authentic shoes. I can understand not wanting to pay resell but we don’t need the cope lol

@@fbkickzngear2.0 I've watched ur vids but i've been in the sneaker business over 30 yrs. My father managed a cpl sports stores for over 15 yrs and I grew up learning the business of sneakers. ordering, where they're made and learning about fakes vs originals. the shoes u compared in ur vids are pretty much made from the EXACT same materials. only difference was slight color variations bcuz they don't have the exact color code. even the jumpman logo is greatly improved on the replicas these days. EVERYTHING produced now from those shoes in the 80's and 90's are basically reps. they're NOT using the same quality of materials ie leather and rubber bcuz of advancements in technology and new combination of materials to make the shoes lighter and stronger and dare I say last longer. the may have the "old school" look but are not the same by a long stretch

@@tjgrafiks in the same token, I’m an engineer and I work in manufacturing. I’ve been collecting sneakers for over 20 years and the reason I even got into this was I wanted to make sure the reps I was buying when I decided to buy them were good. If you’ve watched my videos you’ll know that my critiques on reps are NEVER about quality because reps have been on the same or similar level in terms of quality and materials for the past 10 years. When I say reps miss the mark a lot of the time I’m speaking from an accuracy perspective and that’s where legit checking comes in. A rep can be a great quality shoe and still be inaccurate or wrong. It doesn’t just have to be a color thing. For instance, the first pair of jordan 4 a ma Maniere a that I did a video on were fantastic quality wise. Great construction and comfortable. Doesn’t change the fact that when I put it up against my authentic pair it was obvious that the entire upper was made out of a completely different nubuck than the authentic pair is. That doesn’t mean the shoe is bad quality or inferior, it’s just not accurate. People who care about accuracy have every reason to want to buy the real thing. You can feel however way you want about what these billion dollar business are doing to cut corners and hike up prices, we all hate it, but that doesn’t change the fact that reps can and do miss the mark when it comes to accuracy. If you’re cool with that, that’s fine, but knocking people for wanting to buy the authentic version is weird.

@@fbkickzngear2.0 but that's also kinda my point. so don't get caught up in "reps" they do miss the mark a lot and that's what they're hoping for. for people like u to get caught up in that and be willing to pay outrages prices for practically the same shoe. it's just branding. make a name and then make people pay out their asses for the name but still putting out the same quality or even less in some cases as the "unpopular /generic brand" I see ur point bcuz u stand to make more money being in that business but it's a complete scam and ripoff for the average/regular consumer. u know this!

@@tjgrafiks i kind of reject this framing because I’m not here because they’re holding this “essential for life” product over my head. I’m not here because i need these shoes to survive or because if i dont buy these shoes i'll have nothing to put on my feet. I’m here because this is a hobby. I’m here because this is how i chose to spend my disposable income. If you’re buying tons of reps or tons or authentic shoes, you forfeit the ability to make a moral argument because you’re not buying these shoes out of necessity. You and I dont need more than a couple of pairs of shoes to live life. We’re here because at some level we like the product. You aren’t talking about the “average consumer” when you’re talking about shoes like this because the average consumer isn’t buying these hyped shoes where they’re real or fake. If “close enough” is good enough for you to participate in this hobby, go for it. But dont get it twisted, this is a HOBBY, just because you enjoy it in a different way doesn’t make you better or worse than anyone else. The fact that you’ll go through the lengths of copping a rep from china just to get a “close enough look” doesn’t make you any less bought into the scam than anyone else lol i don’t have an issue with reps and i own some myself, but i dont make excuses for when they dont meet my own standards. Which is why i buy authentic shoes when the reps dont meet my bar