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The title may surprise many but the once glorious flightclub may soon give way to more dynamic marketplaces for very simple reasons. I’ll actually just give you my own personal experience with flightclub for a better illustration. I sold a total of 63 pairs with them in 3 years I believe, and they had the fastest turnaround I had ever witnessed at the time; not only that but I used to get twice as much money for the sneakers I sent them- that was the golden era. To this day I still can’t fathom why people won’t just buy directly from my own website but rather pay $50 to $150 more to buy the same shoe on my eBay store or elsewhere ( flightclub) because it’s safer ( which to me doesn’t make any sense because all my transactions are via paypal)
Breakdown:
0:04 Intro
1:07 Tayib explains what a consignment store is
3:52 Tayib's Flightclub experience
6:05 Chris' take on consignment
10:30 Is It Smart To send your shoes to consignment shop
13:00 Advice to young resellers/ concluding thoughts
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it was slop Chris this is all we know
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what's up Chris what's up guys this is
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time for my sick kicks and on the other
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line I got grease from us by CB beaming
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all this nonsense it was about you man
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I'm getting ready to tweet this thing
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out man
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so if somebody wants to join in I'm
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doing good all right work all right
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Twitter AR c HB y c CB same thing on
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YouTube what's happening people let's
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get it all right
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so Ben Sam today we taught you know a
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pretty interesting topic right we're
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talking about flight club no fly club I
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shouldn't say that soon given that much
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credit are we talking about consignment
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stores like consignment shops and if
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anyone doesn't understand what a
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consignment shop is basically is you
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take your stuff in there as far as
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sneakers and you live in bin and they
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sell it to for you because they have the
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traffic and then once they sell it they
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give you your percentage more
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consignment so to 80/20 80/20 or 85/15
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or 90/10 so basically this sell the
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shoes for you and you get 90 or 80
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percent back and a cheap 220 and outside
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it right now flight club is the top
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selling consignment shop in the country
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they've been around for a long time I
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don't know how long they've been around
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but I used to a lot of business for them
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back in uh like 2008 9 and I sold a
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total of 63 pair of sneakers true fry
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crop that was back then when you know
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the golden era when selling shoes was
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good price to sell him a lot of like I
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used to send him a lot of shoes and and
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back then it was you sent him an email
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and then they replied to your email it
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took them sometimes like 10 days to send
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it back to you man you know so but they
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were the only shop around so it's like
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they have to kind of fool where they
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could just make you wait you know what
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I'm saying
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so and then the payout was kind of I
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don't like a payout because you know
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once the soldiers shoot this sent your
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email then you have to wait like
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sometimes like when way in store Tuesday
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the checks went out on a Tuesday or like
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so it was like a whole bunch of stuff
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then you got your check then you went to
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the bank and deposit of the check so to
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get your money was too much work but you
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got a lot of money for your shoot you
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sent there I mean I was selling shoot
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the plank road and sell a shoe for a 4
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on a book on my website I
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selling for 150 I still don't know how
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people get just can't think my like they
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talking about how you know what don't
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know if your shoes legit like let's if
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we put our faces on camera man I'm not
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going to be selling you fake shoes I and
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if I do because sometimes stuff get
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passed on you don't know you know you
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could be the best legit check do that
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you can always get you know taken so
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well what we're talking about today is
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what is going on consignment shops a lot
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of them are like I think they're gonna
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go out of business no flight probe so to
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speak but a lot of them are gonna go
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down because there's been like the
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consumer is getting smaller and there's
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a lot of things happening and I'm going
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to give you my my little story fry crop
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so basically I will send a shoe to
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flight club and then you put in your
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system and it took some time like four
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or five sometimes a week for the shooter
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pop up right but then they've gotten
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better because that it changed it so
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that's like they have this link I mean
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you know what let me go to my website
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and my share my screen with you look
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we're gonna shoot you if you can see it
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alright so now they send you this link
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tell the flight club whatever and then
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you put in there you go on there let me
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click on it out as a matter of fact and
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then basically what you could do once
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you sign in you can add your shoes and
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everything I don't have time to do it
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now but you know let me go back to my
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website so basically that's what you
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could do but still right now they have a
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new payout so they can send your money
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through PayPal so you don't have to wait
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any longer they can better that you know
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but there's still one thing that they're
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not doing right in my opinion is they
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have to find a way to allow the customer
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and the consumer where they send you to
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keep your shoe so basically what happens
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is when I send you to flight club I can
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no longer sell ash on my own website you
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see what I'm saying like once I send
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this to the flight club it's wrong with
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like I can't do not last you know I
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can't sell it on kicks if I can't sell
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on my own website I cannot sell - you on
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eBay I cannot sell on stock X so to me
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is likely once you put your shoe in
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there you don't have any control anymore
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so you wait and it what happens is if
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there's someone like now with all these
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are the marketplaces like stock X and
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gold and all these places it's more
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competitive and they have cheaper prices
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right Bobby still is charging like top
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dollar for the issue
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so people are getting smarter so is this
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one for you now to still send you shoot
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a fly club I don't think so or any other
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consignment show through this big I'd
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rather just send my stuff on stock X
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because once I put on stock X as you get
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a chance to keep my stuff at home and I
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can still sit on my website and guess
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what
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once you get an offer on stock X you can
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just accept it just like that
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and then you sell it to them and you get
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your money right away but I probably
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just too many too late if you sign your
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shoe day let it sit there now you don't
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have the shoes on em anymore
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you know what I'm saying so I think with
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time these kind of stores are gonna like
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disappear man like because I don't think
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people are trying to just wait and say
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so what do you think Reese that's
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basically my experience with fly club I
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still like them I still think they're
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gonna try because it's like a sneaker
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market everybody want to go to fly
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probably wanna take pictures other
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people disappear but the recent y'all
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like sneaker stores and consignment shop
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the new ones are popping up that I don't
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think they're gonna last mangos people
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have time to just send your stuff in
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there and just sit down just wait you
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know what I'm saying yeah yeah Micro cuz
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they got a traffic big guy
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celebrity is going in there they got
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people and it's like a thing to be in
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flight club it's not like you know a
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regular consignment shop but I still
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think they're gonna hurt because there's
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too many competitive either market
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places and people people want better
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prices you know people want convenience
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people want to still have control on
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their product and they want to be able
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to be king basically I still want to be
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able to control my product I still wanna
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be able to get my money right away you
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know what I'm saying
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so Chris what do you think right right
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right I might write down can you hear me
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use it okay I was just making sure was a
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lot of feedback on my hand um I think
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you did right man that shopsite flight
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club are in jeopardy of disappearing not
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like you said I don't think flight
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club's going anywhere
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because they are the oh geez and this
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and they kind of set the market price
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for a lot of shoes and I even used them
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when I do should you buy the flip and
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I'm writing the article I haven't used
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flight club as a kind of a guide for
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flight club check where I say if the
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shoe is selling for X amount of dollars
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you can literally subtract a hundred
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dollars from it and that's what you'll
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get on any other platform outside of
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flight club so let's say if there's a
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Yeezy or something in the setup for 500
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on flight club on any other platform
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you're not getting you may get 400
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you'll never be able to get the same
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amount as flight club so they're good
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kind of gauge to see what you can make
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but I don't think flight clubs going
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anywhere like you said I think they're
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gonna stick around with all of these new
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shops there's a lot of new shops that
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are popping up we actually have one
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Memphis and I'm actually nervous for the
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guy because we had a big peak here in
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Memphis and it was a consignment shop
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and it was a sneaker shop and it was the
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only independent sneaker shop that we
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had in Memphis now we have some old
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jordan brand accounts that were with
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different stores but this was a sneaker
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shop like a consignment shop um we're in
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a moment now where it's dead simply
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because of the amount of apps and
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locations where you can sell your shoes
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all right so let's run down a list of
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places where you can sell your shoes now
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y-you don't necessarily have to use a
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consignment shop anymore
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but this is also affecting overall
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market so let's count them off let's say
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kick safai right and Birds goat stock
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eggs
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um let's see what's the sole collector
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marketplace slang or whatever like the
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marketplace slang
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there are all these different places
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where you can sell that no longer
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require you to pack your shoes up and
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send them off to flight club so if
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that's the case buddy
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looking at opening a shop and it's
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definitely I think the wrong time to do
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it
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because the market itself is down man
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it's hard to sell anything now primarily
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because there's so many places to sell
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and the search is fractured so people
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are in this place people are in this
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place people over here all over the
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place for you know basically trying to
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sell shoes
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hard to sell anything but that's a good
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thing now that's a good thing for the
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buyer it's a buyers market and that's a
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good thing
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for the buyer it has always wanted it to
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be so when you say our shops like flight
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club dying I'll put that in the chat I
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think you're right I think everybody is
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kind of struggling right now but in
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particular consignment shops are
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probably not doing very well anymore
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well I know why I'm saying that is
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struggling because back then I used to
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be how these dudes at you know I guess
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consignment shop where they were really
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like arrogant and cocky man like it used
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to be you sell em an email you know and
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then you weight it and every time you
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send an email and didn't have a number
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you could call and talk to them but I've
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seen all these changes are a lot in
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spaces I've made it makes me think they
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understand that you know what the heat
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is on either I make some changes I
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better make sure I have my customer
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because he's the reason why my life
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because yeah send your shoes to these
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places they got no inventory they don't
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buy and resell like you know most
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retailers they depend on your shoes to
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make a living you know what I'm saying
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so right that's what I'm saying with all
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these apps available
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no one want to be able to know who I'm
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gonna send these shoes anyway you want
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to keep your stuff at home then you
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won't be able to be in control and then
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Yaquis giving you a lot of I don't you
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know I'm not saying stocking is the best
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you have on the best thing out there
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because you get to keep your shoes some
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like kick safai a lot of traffic you get
10:45
to sell it you get to be in control your
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money gets you I can't ride away you
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know flight club has this still have a
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crazy amount of traffic you go anywhere
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they don't even have to do ads anymore
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but it's funny they're doing on Facebook
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ads which I thought was funny they never
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used to do that kind of steps or why
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they do is because one is to learn ass
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that means somewhere some
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I they hurt a little bit so they got a
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date they still gonna be out there well
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people this has got a crazy amount of
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traffic people just want to go to flight
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club just because they want to say in
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their lifetime yes I want to fly club
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and that's what they have and that's the
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edge they have on anybody else any other
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consignment shop in five three four
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years they're gonna be out of business
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man and I'm saying it with confidence
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because I know I certainly don't want to
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say I mean I'm not even sending you to
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fly crop anymore I'm not doing and flag
11:35
get it please
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I don't need to you know there's too
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many places for me to send my stuff I
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can sell on my own website you know yeah
11:42
so yes I think you know all these places
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you did on adjust and they don't find a
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system that gets the ballot if you're on
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the seller to keep your stuff at home
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they got me out of business man cuz I
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know we're trying to send the issue
11:56
somewhere and just let it sit there and
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then way even when you want get to
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choose back is a pain in the leg you
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know it's all these things you know I
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want to be able to control my stuff you
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know so the lack of control is what
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drives a lot of people to want to go in
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stock XOR kicks if I or these other
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places you know yeah yeah so I think you
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know consignment shops if you own a
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consignment shop 9a you know you know
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flight club it's time maybe for you to
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like think something else because I
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don't know how long we gonna last if you
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don't have a system that you know that
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that really suits my needs or the need
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of all the other guys I want to sell the
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shoes through you if you you have to
12:29
have a crazy amount of traffic for me to
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sell my shoes to you and that's what
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everybody else is thinking if you don't
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have that kind of traffic
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I don't need you really yeah yeah right
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we would you want to sit man nothing you
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know and I know we're gonna get ready to
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cut this off and end it yeah it is
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because when you talk to a lot of young
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dudes that I knew in the sneaker game
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the first thing they talk about is
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opening up a shop you want to open a
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shop I'm gonna do consignment I'm gonna
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try to do this I'm going to do this I'll
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go ahead and load up and you have to
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look at insurance you have a look at
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overheads you have to look at security
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and I mean you know you plan a really a
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tough game right now man because it's a
13:15
bad time for sneaker resale
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and I'm sure a lot of people out there
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are excited about it they're happy that
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sneaker resale is dying out
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they're happy about it problem s sneaker
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resale dies out so does the height and
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kind of the emotion attached to the
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sneaker game so it's no longer going to
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be the cool thing to have the dopest
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shoe because it's not going to matter
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and I'm not saying that the only reason
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the sneaker is considered dope is
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because it resales what I'm saying is -
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it doesn't matter anymore
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well you right you should have because
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that's been oh there's a place in brief
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mall but I'll leave
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they had a consignment shop there I went
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by last time them judge them guys hit
14:11
shut down way and it was out of business
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because I walk period they have nobody
14:15
in that store and it stores day like you
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gotta have a substantial amount of
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traffic for you to be able to run a
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sneaker shop and people don't think
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about having a store if the store I'll
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suggest you sell t-shirt you know
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because you know what is easier for me
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to spend $20 on a t-shirt or $15 then
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sell said it's certainly a shoe for like
14:33
200 to 250 unless you have like really
14:36
inexpensive shoes it's hard to thrive in
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this market and there's a lot of fakes
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now so people are scared if you don't
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reputable like a flight club it's a rock
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no because I'm not gonna grab that I
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just open up and buy and actually pray
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like $700 to get a shoe I don't know if
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they're legit you know people always
14:56
have this in mind so you gotta think
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about it but if you selling t-shirts
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it's easier for you to somebody come in
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and spend like 15 bucks on a t-shirt
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especially if you if you're cool desire
15:05
you know how to design t-shirts so nice
15:07
you know you gonna make those but as far
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as just focusing on sneakers just ask
15:13
Chris and I man we've been together for
15:15
we sell on our own website and right now
15:18
man we still have the cheapest prices
15:21
and stuff is still not selling so
15:24
imagine if you don't have any overhead
15:26
everything is online I don't have a
15:28
store you know I don't have to pay the
15:31
rent everything seemed up I'm not gonna
15:33
say where I put my stuff
15:34
everything's okay so yes and we're still
15:40
struggling so imagine you having a store
15:42
you gotta have a I don't know that I
15:45
don't even know if consignment shop is a
15:47
good idea right now if anybody is doing
15:49
that you may be thinking that we trying
15:51
to save you money all right anyway
15:53
I broke a building thank you yeah good
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information I know I don't get many sign
15:59
up so I'm go ahead and give the big
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thanks to the tire for inviting me to
16:03
the conversation I hope you guys listen
16:06
to what he just said what we're talking
16:07
about man we're not saying this just
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because we're hating on flight club
16:10
we're not doing that we know people are
16:13
looking to start businesses and get into
16:15
the sneaker business and we're trying to
16:17
help as much as possible
16:19
I think it's necessarily the time for
16:21
you to open up a shop um it's just not
16:25
the time now if you were opening up in
16:27
an art gallery and it was going to
16:28
double as a poetry venue and a sneaker
16:31
shop where you could lock down all of
16:33
your stuff when we can and then have
16:35
events then you know what yeah go for it
16:37
because your multi-purpose in your shop
16:40
but if you're not going to multi-purpose
16:42
to shop and you think you're just going
16:44
to be a sneaker reseller and you're
16:46
going to have a consignment spot man
16:47
it's not going to happen but um you guys
16:49
can find me th - usa.com and on twitter
16:54
at a r CH b YC CB and on youtube at the
16:59
same location and i'm looking forward to
17:01
talking to people man and answering
17:03
questions we're doing some great work on
17:05
the websites definitely go to the
17:06
websites everything will be in the
17:07
description and we'll have a breakdown
17:09
down here appreciate you guys and I'll
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see you on inside of ties on Friday and
17:14
another sneaker talk on Wednesday night
17:16
the roof all right
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