(7/12) @twojskicks@cease91 and I sat down on the Shea Stadium seats in the shop and talked about grading. We sat side to side and I tried to explain different shoes and different grading metrics I picked up on. I think the shoe we were using as our example was the Saucony x Solebox Shadow 5000 (swipe)…Jay asked […]
(6/12) I called my cousin, @djklick : “Hey man, I think I just landed a deal at @urban_necessities you got any interest in a quick trip down to Vegas?” My cousin picked me up about 36 hours later and we packed his truck full of graded shoes – about 150 pairs. We left Oakland at 9am and listened to […]
(3/12) A year or so flies by and, through following Jaysse on Facebook and contacting him time and time with my random pickups & sneaker app ideas, I’m watching this dude build his dream brick by brick… I distinctly remember him posting a pic of himself standing in the hallway of the house he’s living […]
(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 […]