(8/12) Dad jokes. My last day at Urban Necessities was filled with hope and promise and then it quietly fell into…confusion. @twojskicks , @cease91 , @joaniebean and I discussed next steps and I had my laundry list of things to do. I won’t lie – I was *kinda* showing them vaporware and I told them as much. If you don’t know […]
(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 […]