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eBay Certainly Has Some Unqualified Authenticators
Feb 19, 2025
For our legit check, see link below https://housakicks.com/category/legit-check/ For our resell prediction and stock numbers projection, see link below https://housakicks.com/category/how-many-pairs-made-resale/ eBay certainly has an unqualified team of authenticators, they are atrocious. This is not me just babbling for no reason; it is factual. I recently sold a preowned pair of the 2013 Air Jordan 4 Fear Pack on eBay for $399. The shoe was authentic of course, yet to my surprise after receiving the sneaker, eBay’s authentication team sent me an email to tell me that my sneakers were fake. I was flabbergasted, one of the main functions of my website is authenticating sneakers. So I was so annoyed with the email that I just had to laugh about it.
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hey what's going on guys this is
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tigerhouserkicks.com
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and uh i usually don't make this type of
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videos exposing stuff but you know
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sometimes
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when uh things happen i think is is
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feeling that i
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i i do this because a lot of times you
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know we have to be able to voice
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not our frustration but when something
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is wrong and something was done that was
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wrong
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then as a customer or consumer or or
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someone that wants to uh educate other
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people it is fitting that we do
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something about it and this is in that
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same spirit that i'm i'm trying to do
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what i'm doing today so basically uh let
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me get to it and cut all the guardian
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nuts and just get to what i wanted to
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talk about so basically i sold this pair
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of jordan 4
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for your pack uh on ebay
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i'm gonna show you the shoe real quick
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and i'll get to it
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so this is the shoe okay the fear pack
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four
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i sold this on ebay that was like uh
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a few uh let me get into the camera see
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if i can so i sold this on ebay
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and i wanted to take advantage of the no
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fees because you know the no fees is
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gonna end on the 19th of january right i
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don't know if you guys know so i saw
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this is a used pair okay authentic
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so i saw this shoe on ebay
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and then
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uh i shipped it
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and
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i guess a week later or like a few days
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later once they got the shoes they send
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the money to my account
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and i find out like two days later
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that they decide that the shoe is fake
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and they send me this card basically
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this is what they told me okay your item
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did not pass
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our authentication partners verification
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check which is done by snickercon of
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course
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and we are returning this item to you
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because our authentication partner was
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unable to verify your items
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authenticity
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okay
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so basically they're telling me that my
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snicker
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is fake
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okay
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and i was flabbergasted i was really
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flabbergasted and pissed off because
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for guys i don't know my website house
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of cakes.com basically exists to expose
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fakes as well so i'll do a lot of legit
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check on the website and i'm going to be
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sharing that with you in just a minute
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let me do that right now
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so basically
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uh my website on my website i have a
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whole section dedicated to
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authenticating sneakers you can see that
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that's a lot of i did i wrote over 200
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over 250 posts on the website showing
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you how to authenticate sneakers
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and so basically when i got the message
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from ebay i was a little bit taken back
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because i'm like okay you know what
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let me let me see these things so
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they're telling me we are refunding your
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but the buyer and they will deduct the
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money from my account which they did
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right and they told me
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that this is what they say here see
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additional notes from our authentication
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partner so basically they're telling me
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we're gonna tell you how and why the
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shoe is fake all right so i look and i
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went and looked for the
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uh additional notes i couldn't find any
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so basically they are telling me that
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your shoe is fake but you won't tell you
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why the shoe is fake it's almost like
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you take your car to get an inspection
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and then the people tell you your car
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failed the inspection but we're not
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going to tell you why it failed the
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inspection this is so unprofessional
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this was so
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uh mind-blowing i was pissed so i was
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like okay you know what
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uh first of all when i receive an
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authentication request on my website
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okay when somebody send me a look i say
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hey listen can you authenticate a shoe
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for me
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first of all i go and i do my research
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on it okay and this is an example
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somebody sent me a pair of the dunk low
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uh white and black and they wanted me to
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authenticate it so this is the authentic
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player and this is the pair that the guy
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sent me obviously you can see there's a
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lot of like flaws on the issue
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this swoosh logo was wavy and the gap
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between the tongue tab and the first
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set of um
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stitches on the tongue and x extension
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was a little too small on the fake one
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the box was totally wrong on the face so
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basically when i receive stuff like that
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when i send
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my uh the customer and answer back i
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tell them where
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and how and why they should fail the
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authentication i talked about a gap i
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talk about repair so i give him a like a
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detailed uh report to tell me listen
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this is why i believe the shoe that you
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were sold is fake ebay didn't do that
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with me
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they didn't tell me anything they just
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decided like
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it's like an arbitrary decision you just
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decide oh we're not gonna pass the issue
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because we just don't feel like it
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i've uh you know my question is
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these guys that are doing the
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authentication they are not qualified
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and i'll tell you why i think
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anything that's like prior to like
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pre-2013
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because uh the new shoes don't have the
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rfid the the all shoes don't have the
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rfid and qr code identifier
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i don't think these guys that are doing
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the authentication before ebay i don't
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think a lot of them know what they're
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doing i don't think they understand and
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i think when they got the shoes they
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just were so
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take they didn't know what to do so the
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the easiest decision they made was to
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tell me that my shoe was fake and they
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sent it back to me normally under normal
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circumstances okay under normal
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circumstances when you receive
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a shoe that is fake you're supposed to
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destroy that shoe so they send the shoes
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back to me and i'm so pissed because i'm
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like you guys don't know if you know
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what you're doing when you want to
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authenticate a pair of jordan 4 there's
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a lot of things you can look at the
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netting
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okay the tongue uh the tongue okay i'll
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show you that in a minute and then the
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jumpman on the back and the the letter
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cut and the this time this plastic tab
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usually on the fake one is really hard
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it's really bad okay so they didn't do
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that they didn't show me anything at all
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they just decided
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by their own random process that machine
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was fake and they made me mad because
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they are defending me in the process and
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they are saying that issue is fake that
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you don't even know how to authenticate
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it so what i did was i wonder how many
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what was that success rate because ebay
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bragged about authenticating by the way
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two million pairs in the last two years
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which i think is not that many because
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stockx is probably blowing them out of
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the waters okay stockx is probably doing
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a million pairs a month okay you do two
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million person in two years that that's
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to tell me that
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even with uh with the no fees on items
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hundred and above ebay is still not
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cutting it because they
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they have an arcade system that is just
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outdated and they've never really fixed
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it and this is the reason why a lot of
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sellers are migrating just to put a shoe
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on ebay it takes you about five minutes
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i don't have time to take all these
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pictures people don't want to do all of
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that on you know non-stockists are good
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you just boom boom boom you put the
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style number and the shoe pops up this
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is why ebay is struggling you know they
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are trying to address the wrong problem
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and not only that
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they've tried to solve the fake problem
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and now they're actually creating more
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problems by
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not being able to authenticate a sneaker
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you're sending me my shoe back and you
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are basically telling me i'm selling
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affects you when i'm selling an
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authentic shoe that really pissed me off
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it really made me mad okay and so i kind
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of wanted to if ebay people are watching
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it okay if you're watching if you work
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for ebay if you work for snickercon or
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you're one of those authenticators i
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want you i want to show you a couple of
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things here so this is how you
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authenticate uh these are pair of um
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jordan 4. the first thing you want to
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look at is the tongue okay now if you
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see there's a clear divide between the
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liner and the tongue itself on the fake
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one you don't have that and the netting
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on the face is usually really thick you
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can see the grid here is really thick
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okay that's one thing you can look at so
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i'm just showing you guys how to do this
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and the next thing you want to look at
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i'm going to show you the picture is uh
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this plastic uh
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component here where the the laces go
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through okay on the fake one you can see
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there's the pattern is different look at
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the pattern here the holes are different
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the pattern is different and if you look
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at the stitching here the stitching is
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also different here on the fake one the
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stitching is like dotted and they are
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really close to one another and the gap
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between the stitching and these instead
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this these are insert on the side here
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is much bigger on the on the fake bear
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now if you look at the speckles the
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speckles are not really apparent you
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don't see a lot of speckles on the face
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you can see that on the authentic which
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is my pair you have more speckles and
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then the slit on the outsole of the shoe
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you can see on the authentic the slate
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is what wider on the fake pair is it's a
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smaller slit you can kind of see that
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over there right and then the next thing
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i want to show you is the the bottom
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there the
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they are the back of the shoe the
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jumpman logo okay you can see these both
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pairs are size eight and a half the cut
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is a little too high on the fakes okay
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and then the hand here you see the
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fingers you see the laces on the
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authentic you don't see that at all okay
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and if you see the jumpman is placed a
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little too high on the fake pair
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the head is above that line that i drew
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so there's a lot of things they could
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have done i don't even know why they
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didn't do that it's so surprising to me
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that they wouldn't take the time to
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really investigate this whole thing and
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if you look at the boxes okay on the
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authentic pair which is my pair the
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eight and half is a lot wider and this
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is the eight and a half on the fake
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where the upc code is totally wrong on
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the fake pair you can see look at the
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epc code they have here it's not even
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that it's wrong and the color code is
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also wrong and effect one which i'll
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show you in a minute
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they have the wrong
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uh color code you see it's black white
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gray and then black pure platinum and
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then you can see my box has the tear up
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sticker this box the
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air jordan 4 retro the wedding is a
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little bit crooked and they have the
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wrong colorway there's just so many
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things is jumpman23.com
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on the fake one is jordan.com there's a
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lot of things that they could have done
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and ebay did not do that and that really
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made me mad because i believe that they
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made a decision based on just
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the spur of the movement you don't you
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don't do that because this is business
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and you made me lose money
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and you defamed me by doing what you did
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so this is why i just decided that it
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was important for me to do this video
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okay so i hope they learn from this and
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i hope that that doesn't happen to
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somebody else because that's the whole
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reason why i'm doing this here i'm not
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trying to be one of those to start a
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fight online i don't want to do that i
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just want to be able to show and educate
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people on these matters and and i
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believe uh with this video maybe ebay
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will take into consideration the fact
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that they should be more thorough in
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their uh inspection when they are trying
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to
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authenticate a sneaker and by the way i
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wrote several articles uh this week that
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i would encourage you to really go and
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look at especially the jordan 13 called
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purple i'm gonna tell you whether the
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shoe is actually worth reselling or not
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this article is pretty good so i wrote
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it this morning if you want to invest in
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it you you definitely want to look at
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that article and i have like some other
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ones that i i think
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are worth looking at it's a lot of
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things here on the website so please i
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don't always have time to like put stuff
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on youtube so please check the website
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consistently because there's a lot of
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things that i wrote on that you may want
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to look at i actually talked about the
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the fake jordan 6 mean foam day out the
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fake jordan 13 purple that's out and the
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fake supreme uh nike dunk high
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by all by all means that's also out so
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you may want to check that out all right
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again if this type of information is
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helping you please uh share this video
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and then like it so i'll get a lot more
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of you so that way more more people can
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learn from this all right have a
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wonderful day and i'll see you next time
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thank you
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