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From the pictures that I saw via Instagram courtesy of Nicekicks, it is safe to say that Air Jordan retros are sitting on retailers’ shelves in Shanghai, China. A Chinese American who goes by the IG name of ShanghaiSole has created a lot of interest on social media when he shared images of countless hyped General Release Jordan Retros apparently collecting dust via retail in Shanghai. Needless to say that this man’s inbox was inundated with folks asking him for an assist-they were basically asking him to be their shopping assistant because they couldn’t find these shoes here in the USA.
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hey what's going on guys this is tyler
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hasakits.com and uh today i just wanted
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to do something a little bit uh
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different
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there is uh
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something that was trending on instagram
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i believe last week actually i came
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across it on nice kicks
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instagram uh news feed it was a bunch of
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um
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jordan retros sitting in shanghai china
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so i wanted to go back to the source and
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see what this was all about so i looked
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on i went and looked up the guys on
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youtube account
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actually actually youtube account
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instagram account and he had a bunch of
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like uh retros like some good ones
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as you can see on my screen right now he
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has like the ones the
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um they're pulling ones and this one
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with a copper or meat midsection and the
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iron man i had a bunch of like even
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though the royalty 12 they're not even
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out here and a bunch of like stuff that
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here is sold out that are sitting in
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them people were pretty thirsty for it
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and i guess his inbox was full of people
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asking him for an assist basically they
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wanted him to hook him up hook him up so
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i wanted to discuss the reason why this
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is taking place in china this is the
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guy's instagram account
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and i want to look it up and he's got
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does some pretty crazy stuff man like so
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i kind of wanted to discuss this this
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morning i don't want to show you guys
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this is now i'm just wanting to show you
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what it was so i want to give you my
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reasons for why i think
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and this is taking place like i'm not
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surprised by it you know i actually
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wrote an article on it but i know people
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don't like to read okay a lot of people
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don't like to read articles so i decided
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i'm just going to do a video to kind of
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break this down a little bit and then
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and show you exactly what what i think
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about on this whole situation
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now uh first let me explain a couple of
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reasons and let's get to it in just a
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minute quickly uh i actually had to just
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go and kind of lay it out now the first
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thing i want to talk about is like
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uh consumers okay
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this is a huge huge huge thing because
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people change their taste but always
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change so
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i wrote a post like a few
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now
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a couple of years ago when i talked
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about uh actually let me see if i can
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grab it and i can get access to it for
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you guys but in the course i discussed
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uh vultures so basically the vultures
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were made up of like uh overseas bulk
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buyers from china
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and they were always going to stores and
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like ravaging the entire entire malls
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like i remember i live in like um
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maryland and and lake forest mall is one
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of the model exactly dying but
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uh i'll go in there and then they'll see
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like
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all older asian folks they were like
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somewhere they were like 1665 so they
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were basically buying this thing that we
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selling in asia and sending it now i
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don't know if they were selling in china
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so to speak but let me go back to my
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earlier point but there were a bunch of
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them
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selling those sneakers and it was
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virtually impossible to get anything and
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then foot locker actually had to change
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uh a lot of their reward system because
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these guys were using on the coupons and
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bridge gear abusing it and they screwed
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up for everybody else so there was a
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bunch of them so about what the question
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is why am i bringing this up that's
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because there's been a decrease on asian
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shoppers i have not seen them at all
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i've actually gone to the mall and i've
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not seen any of them buying any sneakers
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anymore so and the reason why
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i think that's due to an increase in the
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supply from overseas
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which explains why the shoes are sitting
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because the supply is now
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increasing over there so what's the need
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of buying them over here the only reason
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why they were buying it here is because
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there was not an influx of shoes so
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therefore they could just they now they
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can just buy it overseas so they don't
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have to buy from us retailers because
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jordan brain again listen jordan brain
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is not stupid they follow what people
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talk about they know what's going on in
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the market they have relationship with
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the retailers so they know what is going
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on in the u.s market so
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they begin flooding
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the asian market because this is the
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thing jordan brand wants to make the
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most money from their sneakers so if
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they see that a lot of asians are buying
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the shoes why not supply asia better and
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just diminish the production in the us
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because those shoes were sitting in the
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walls like you were walking moths and i
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i was buying like jordan retros like the
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even the the black and uh the black and
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green jordan 13 that came i forgot the
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name nickname on the show i bought those
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i was buying this for like 119 from my
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local gtr so if those things are selling
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well in asia why why don't we flood the
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asian market and yeah and then let those
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guys buy it over there why allow because
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jordan brand want to maximize their
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profit they want to capitalize on
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everything so
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that's what he did now
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but there is repercussion today if you
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floor the market what do you think
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happened the the result is shoes begin
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to sit and that's what's happening in
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front of us because customers especially
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in asia they are fickle they're like
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they're fleeting okay their taste buds
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change like a like a clock because they
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constantly want something better and
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then it's just the vanity of men
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as humans we don't want what everybody
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else has we want what we can't have
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basically because we want to have
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something unique so therefore this is
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typical of like a lot of asian consumers
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because an item that could be like a
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hardest commodity today can lose its
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value in a short period of time because
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consumers always want what they can't
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have and once the market is saturated
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with a particular commodity interest
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fades quickly and that's what's
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happening
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so in essence businesses are the mercy
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of the consumer because when their mood
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swings
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people don't want to buy it anymore they
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go you know what everybody's getting it
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just like the fidget
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spinners and now those puppet puppets
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whatever everybody wants it but once
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everybody has it now nobody wants it
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anymore because it's no longer something
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that it's like unique again that's the
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vanity of men so that could be one
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reason why uh shoes are sitting because
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consumers are fleeting they just don't
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want care they just don't care anymore
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about these sneakers they don't want to
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deal with it because now the market is
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flooded and everybody can get it so they
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don't want to get it
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now the other reason is the abundance of
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fake sneakers in the market and this
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could be a huge reason i'm going to get
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into it in a minute because
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uh
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jordan retros there's why they are not
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being bought out anymore because with
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the introduction of like the new breed
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of fakes they're called now option b
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sneakers okay fakes have graduated they
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change names every time so now people
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are calling them like option b sneakers
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and then laws are prohibiting the sale
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of counterfeit maybe a little lacks in
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asia i think they have like some strong
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laws but i don't think the repercussions
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are as bad as they are like here so
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people don't want to deal with the
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shenanigans with like release dates uh
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problems every time you want to get a
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shoe there's so many problems you know
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with the bot with all this nonsense so
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people don't want they don't want to
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deal with it so the chinese consumer has
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mostly like shifted an opted for these
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option b sneakers which are first of all
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easier to obtain and they are more
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affordable they are cheaper and they are
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easier to get so and i've shared like
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photos of like several prototype jordans
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and they're absolutely like jaw-dropping
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like if you see somebody's face like i
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said fakes have graduated i mean if you
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people are buying them and they don't
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even care because now it's basically
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socially
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accepted to buy fake sneakers you don't
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get crucified anymore you don't get
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excommunicated because now effects have
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been so easy to get and people actually
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want it let me just show you a couple of
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pics of a fix that i've seen just to
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show you the extent to which they've
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gone man let me show you that in a
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minute now just take a look at this
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right here i mean look at an incredible
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fix they've gotten
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i'm just gonna click on some of the
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pictures now these are all shoes that i
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have not even made it into the scene
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just yet these dudes are already have it
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so many effects and some of them are
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like super nice and the quality is just
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incredible so the temptation to i mean
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it's not your fingertips look this is
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the off-white too they're not even out
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yet they're not even out but look
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they got them out already because the
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bootleggers got it out and the shoes
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look darn good so people are like why am
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i gonna wait for a shoe that i can't get
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if i can get it right now i want it and
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i want it now so therefore they're gonna
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pull the trigger because it looks great
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and nobody crucifies you anymore for
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wedding fix actually people actually
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tolerate it so therefore why not go for
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it so why not why should i why would i
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want to wait to get the travis cart if i
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can get it right now and i can pay a lot
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less than retail instead of paying at
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two thousand dollars or a thousand
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dollars so i'm gonna get it now so
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therefore i don't wanna go to nike and
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buy anything now this is the soulfly
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jordan one now look at this
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they're so quick they make these things
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so quick they have them all out
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you know what i'm saying
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and the quality is incredible they do
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use like top-notch materials so people
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are like
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i'm not gonna i'm not gonna buy
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authentic shoes if i can get a fake one
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so the cool grade 11
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they ain't even out they've already got
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them out you know good quality shoe you
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know they got the key sizes they got man
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sizes they got every size you need and
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you pay probably like 140 130 for them
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so people are like hey if i can get my
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hands on it now i'mma get it you better
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believe i'm gonna get it
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i wanna deal with jordan brain you know
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look at this
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i mean they got all kind of stuff
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they even got stuff that's not even out
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just yet and they got it more
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lined up for you and then these are all
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like affordable sneakers like people can
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buy now and you don't have to go through
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through the shenanigans of of the bot
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and all the nonsense so therefore people
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are like hey i'm gonna go ahead and get
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it right now i'm gonna go for the option
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b
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now there could be another reason why
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uh these sneakers are like sydney in
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china now the second the third reason
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which i i think probably is one of the
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biggest reason is the kobe 19
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repercussions basically what has
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happened is the supply is still low and
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that's because of kobe 19 and the demand
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is still fairly high in the usa so
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however what you see is like the jordan
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one means are also like slowly becoming
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like dust collectors they're not selling
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as well anymore so i'm suspecting that
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because of shipping issues because of
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kobe 19 jordan brain has decided to just
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offload
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all of his like north american inventory
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into the chinese market
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resulting in the excess because a lot of
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shoe stores were not getting their step
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like you you go like i went to a local
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foot locker and they just got their
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jordan 5 raging bull so if nike's having
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trouble bringing the shoes over here why
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not just send it to the chinese market
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and just offload everything over there
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so again but the question is all these
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reasons could be potential reasons i'm
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not sure this is like
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actual truth but i'm just throwing like
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some some
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some reasons for you out there to kind
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of explore because we don't know what's
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really going on but all we can tell is
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that it is a shift and for me what i
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think about is like if if i'm a brand
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like um
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adidas or my brand like uh
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sarcani or new balance which new
11:11
battling is making is making some stride
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right now so they're killing everything
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they've been always killing it so but
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now they're even better so what i'm
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saying is right now is the time to
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capture that evasive market because
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people are fleeing again their taste bud
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changes all the time so right now is the
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time to say hey listen if i'm a brand
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i'm going to capitalize on this and just
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go for that consumer that's always
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trying to change its days down but so
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again this is my reason number one i
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think is because
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uh people are fleeting second is because
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of fakes on the market and then third
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because of kobe 19 repercussions because
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shipping is still delayed so therefore
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the brains are probably offloading all
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their stuff uh in the country where they
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are being made so this stuff is made in
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china for the most part so why not just
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sell it in china right now because we
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have trouble bringing them in the united
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states so this is why
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these are doing this way now if i'm that
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guy shanghai so this is a perfect time
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to create some kind of business where
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you can actually sell all these
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to to other people that are actually
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looking for looking for it so hey this
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this is again this is how business
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starts you see an opportunity you see a
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need on the market and then you supply
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that need and he is in a perfect
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baseline in china so why not do it
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all right so that's all i wanted to talk
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about today but i also wanted to mention
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that uh uh i i wrote several articles
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now you want to see the fake off white
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i'm showing you in here how to
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authenticate them and i also talked
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about the jordan 4 right thunder and the
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jordan 3 pine green and the gundam um
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sb those are also out so i did a reverse
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escape on it so you want to check it out
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i'll see the links in the description i
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will have that for you okay so other
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than that man have a wonderful day and
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i'll see you our next time thank you
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