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DMV Lucky Soles Buy Sell Trade Sneaker Event Recap & Observation
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Feb 19, 2025
I went to a buy, sell and trade sneaker event today in Springfield Virginia, here is a recap of the event and my final observations
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and i haven't done this like a long time
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and i'm amazed at how many times i mean
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people are actually coming out that's a
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lot of vendors
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if you see this
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sort of proper thing here and if you
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look over there there's like a bunch of
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powder green just
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setting up all over the parking lot this
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is incredible
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i mean i didn't think people actually do
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that again but
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i'm i'm actually so blown about what i
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see and what i witnessed
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and the event doesn't start like 12
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o'clock but there's like a gang of
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people already out here
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trying to get some steals that's a lot
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of resellers buying up stuff
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if you see there there's some resellers
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there setting up
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see on my left side there's some
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resellers setting up
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and now somebody just pulled off the van
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with a bunch of shoes in their car
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and on my right side there's a lot more
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cars and the event is not supposed to
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start to like 12
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but it's like a bunch of people so that
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shows you the power of
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this sneaker uh thing if you look
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there's somebody just producing this
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much at once
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so uci goes out okay we'll see how it
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goes
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thanks for watching please
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i'm just recording a little bit yeah
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what's the name of your business again
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bim days
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all right all right and how long y'all
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been doing this
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uh about a year and a half yeah we got a
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lot of stuff yeah it's all our user
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inventory and all our news and
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we're going to start putting the news
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i'll come and record them all right i'll
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put it on an article on my website
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hell yeah bro i'm glad you came out here
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bro oh yeah
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so this is your son's inventory he and i
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he and i do it together oh your business
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is good yeah
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what's the name of the business it's
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called heat on your feet eat on your
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feet
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h-e-e-t and how long you've been in
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business uh
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three years three years yeah yeah we got
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lots of fun inventory
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and you're located in virginia ashburn
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virginia
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that's my son there all right here on
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your feet yeah all right nice to meet
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you notice we're wearing the same shoes
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i see that just black and white off
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white man he's got white i got black
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laced up dmv that's the name what's your
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name my name is an evil
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how long have you doing this man almost
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three years three years
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okay first time here
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no we come to every event this year all
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right
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yes
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[Music]
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what you guys asking on what's the name
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of your business
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um i don't have one you don't have about
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just uh
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she was sitting on the floor yeah that's
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what's going on man how you doing good
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what's the name of your business
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uh souls
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what's up
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[Applause]
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i didn't get it say it again again
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sure i appreciate that
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okay so how long have you been doing
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this after a couple years now
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yes so my name is hype v8 yes all right
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i will do that
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oh what's the name of your business
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uh hypebusters hypebusters yes eva or
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maryland dmv area most likely pg county
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but i mean we'll go ahead so how long
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you been doing this man
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uh [ __ ] i mean i've been doing this
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since high school man
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all right we've been known for a long
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time
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yeah back in the day it wasn't like this
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you got to learn to modify
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you know to the environment nowadays i
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hear you man it was it was better back
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in the day you know
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oh hey thanks james not so much
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stockx pricing you know it was all like
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local marketing local market
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but you know you gotta you gotta adapt
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to it right right that's right
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good talking to you
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you guys have a business yeah yeah
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what's the name of it
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uh tv is that in va or mainland america
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melon all right db kicks yeah all right
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how long have you been doing this man
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like only six months
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six months okay
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uh
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so i came home i left at like
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1 30. it was a good event man it turned
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out was incredible
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cars were like there was no space in the
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parking lot you know which surprised me
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for
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because i'm thinking this is covered so
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people are not going to want to show up
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but that place was packed to the teeth
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to the point where there was no parking
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lot so when i was leaving
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people were still coming in but i
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decided to leave a bit early
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just because i had a headache and i felt
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like okay it's sunday
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i'm usually not out so i wanted to go
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home but what is the takeaway
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things have changed man like going out
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there today
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made me feel old because you know
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all the kids that were talking they were
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like 17 18
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and a lot of them when you saw me when i
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was asking them questions i asked them
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how long have you been doing this they
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say six months some a year
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and all these kids their table is filled
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with
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just the hype sneakers like retros all
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the latest ones
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and uh a few uses but mostly jordans and
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even people that went there
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if you looked at their feet all they had
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on was either jordan ones
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or some uh some yeezy but mostly jordan
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once
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and and then there was no variety of
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kicks when i was going through from
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table to table
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no table really had like any new
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balances um
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no other shoes no no no asics
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no reebok nothing all is just jordan
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retros
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and a few yeezys which shows you this is
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just dominated by nike
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stores are not going to do good if you
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don't have nike sneakers now the second
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thing that i also want to say is the
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fact that
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with stockx and goat and marketplaces
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like that
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like you don't have to be knowledgeable
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knowledgeable about sneakers
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uh to sell shoes in the sense that uh
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these kids like
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the guys that came to my table it was
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funny they asked me how much you want
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for a shoe
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i give them my price and instead of
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talking to me they went straight to
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their phone
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and i know what they were doing and i
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told them i know what you're checking
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you check into to see how much the shoes
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going on stockx
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back in our days which again i'm not
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saying that we were better
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we didn't have to like do all that i
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didn't have to check my phone i didn't
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have to go on ebay
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i kind of knew how much my [ __ ] was
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worth you know these kids now they don't
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have to do all that
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because stockx is a good convenience
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like they
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just know listen i'm just going to go on
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stockx and if the shoes on stockx for
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220 i'm going to give this guy 200.
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so that's what that's the way they're
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operating and so these kids
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they don't have to learn the game they
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don't have to know about shoes all they
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have to do
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is look at the shoe get the star number
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check it and then tell you
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this how much i'm gonna pay you for it
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and a lot of them have the money
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like these kids were like 17 a kid there
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had like a stack of money
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stuck as a mountain i mean it was
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incredible for me to see that and and
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then basically you heard what one of the
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guys said
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if you don't adapt you're going to die
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out so and a lot of them when i was
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asking them a question
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do you have a business none of them have
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a website every single one of them told
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me the same thing
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yes my ig is this so their business is
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pretty much based on instagram and not
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even facebook so it's basically just
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instagram
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instagram and instagram so the game
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has changed and i'm not gonna be one of
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those guys that complains about how they
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ruined it
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they didn't ruin nothing it's just how
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it is now okay you either get on with it
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or you get off the boat that's just how
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it is so what i saw today was the fact
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that
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if you go to an event like that don't
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bring any
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new balances asics or reeboks or stuff
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like that they're not going to sell
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people are not even going to look at it
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like all the guys that came to my table
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all they wanted to see was a topaz four
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the jordan ones and the dmp6 and a
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couple of jordans 12.
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they're not looking at any nike
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basketball sneakers they're not looking
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at no
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iverson shoes they're not looking at no
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phone passes they're not even looking at
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the up tempos
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all they want is the jordan one i mean
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it's just crazy
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so you either get with it or get off the
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boat that's just how it is man
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so that's my observation for today it's
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going to continue to change
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and i kind of feel like uh that society
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is like the keys are taking over
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and they are smarter they have the money
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i don't know if who's getting the money
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because this kid came in and the kid
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that bought the shoes for me
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he had a u-haul truck full of shoes that
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he was driving back to california
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i mean this is how much money these kids
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have so they all have stores
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and they all have like these avenues
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where they know they're going to have a
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buyer for it
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so hey that's how it is now so that's
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all i wanted to say
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but again i'm glad i went there because
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i was able to document some of the stuff
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but as far as reselling is concerned i
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mean it's hard not to sell sneakers
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because the shoe the kids
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are so hyped to the game they have the
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star x app they have the good app so
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it's hard to really merchandise your
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items if he's not hyped
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if you don't have any hype shoes don't
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go to these events because they're not
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going to know what you have in your hand
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i had the ginger 16 nobody looked at the
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ginger 16.
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this is like unheard of because if i
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went with ginger 16 to my old
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the old shows that i used to people
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gravitated towards
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they didn't even know what a ginger 16
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where nobody looked at it not one person
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picked up picked up the ginger 16 to
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look at it because they don't know
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that's just the new school and i can't
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hit them that's just how it is
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all right that's all i wanted to say
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again thanks for watching this is ty
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from azer kicks
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