(2/12) Now, it’s a couple of months later in 2013, and my phone dings and its an eBay alert. It’s a message from eBay telling me that I’ve got a message from another member. I open it up and I get the strangest message I’ve ever received on ebay: “Hey man, I love these I […]
(1/12) So the year was 2013 and my girlfriend and I had just moved down to San Francisco after spending the prior two years up in Tahoe, and I was fresh on my thrift store grind. If you don’t spend much time in SF, the thrift stores are of legend. Nothing like NY thrift stores […]
v Wow. Yay. Again. Another ‘re-imagined’ Jordan V ‘Grapes’. How many times can JB ‘re-imagine’ the same shoe that people keep on buying? I suppose it’s not the same people buying over and over, but it’s probably more new generations of sneakerheads picking these up so I probably shouldn’t bitch about it…I suppose I’m just […]
Haters will say it’s photoshopped.… So with a single *left* and a single *right* shoe going for a bit more than $100k total, it had me thinking – which sneakerhead could afford to buy and wear these without worrying all that much about the financial hit he’d take? … I mean, I know all y’alls […]
And could I forget about the *single* greatest *single* left shoe sale of all time? Yup, the Nike Air Mag (from Back to the Future II) that recently sold on the @shoezeum ebay account…… This shoe – crumbles and all – sold for a whopping $92,100. That’s almost *DOUBLE* my yearly salary as a high school teacher. […]
Posting that *single* Vin Baker PE – and the price jumped from $850 to $1000 after we posted it – “By simply posting, The Sneaker Savant helps you get more for your single shoes” 😂 ) – got me thinking about other famous *single* shoes that went for a pretty penny…… Back in 2015 this […]
The irony is not lost on me. Remember, this is part of a pair I posted the other day that is kind of like the cornerstone of the first version of Jordan Brand athletes…Vin Bakers signature model the ‘Vindicate’ in all it’s Player Exclusive glory. So, once again, I bought a pair for $180 back […]
(Interlude) Funny enough, in 2006, Jordan Brand got called out for that last image I posted that was used by almost every fake seller on eBay in like 2005.… An important thing to remember: not everyone who works for Nike or Jordan Brand or Adidas or Foot Locker knows or even gives a damn about […]
(1/2) Back when I was 16 or 17 years old, there was only one Jordan silhouette that released per year. There was no such thing as retros. So at the time, the silhouette was the Jordan XII and the Jordan XIII. Yeah, I’m kinda old. … A few years after I started collecting, retro’s starting […]
If you collect shoes and don’t know anything about the peak of the sports card era from the mid-80’s to the early 90’s, I would highly recommend ‘Jack of All Trades’ on Netflix. Why am I, The Sneaker Savant, telling you about a documentary about sports cards on Netflix? Because I feel like the collectible […]