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Real Vs Fake Air Jordan 5 Alternate Grape, Quick Ways To Identify The Fake Pair
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Feb 20, 2025
You can buy the authentic pair, see video below https://bit.ly/39m1kGA The Fake Air Jordan 5 Alternate Grape has been on the market for months but since I didn’t have access to pictures of legitimate pairs, I didn’t want to create subpar comparison. Today we’ll be learning ways to identify the replica pair. Both pairs used in this post are of size 8.5. This side by side comparison isn’t an exhaustive one, so be sure to do your own homework and check other authentication videos as well.
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hey what's going on guys this is
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tigerhauserkicks.com
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and welcome on to my channel again this
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morning
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i wanted to show you how to identify the
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fake jordan 5 alternate grape
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now somebody asked me online to do it
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the other day and actually
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actually had like the post done
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but i never got a chance to put it up so
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this morning i finally have some time to
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squeeze the scene and i wanted to show
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you how to quickly identify it
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now some things before i start like when
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i do this uh this comparison i don't
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claim to be a
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at all or this is like the standard i'm
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just
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showing you ways to do your own
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authentication when you're in the
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comfort of your own house
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so for example this morning the shoe
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that i use is a size eight and a half
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so if you have a size 10 or 11 or 12
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some nuances may not be apparent on your
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shoe focus on those areas that do not
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require
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you to have the same size that's what i
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want you to do and also be sure to check
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other people's stuff
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but this is just a preventive way of
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warning you so if for example you watch
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my video and there's things here that
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you see that you see on the show online
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just don't buy it
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don't do that to yourself so again this
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is not me saying hey this is the
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standard this is the way nah
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i am not jesus i'm just showing you a
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way okay
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so i'll invite you to to have that in
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mind before you actually make a comment
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and uh the next thing i want to say is
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this if you have a chance be sure to
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take this survey
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okay i've worked with the company and
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they they actually designed this
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software that can actually guess the
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type of shoes you like to wear so
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if you have a chance please take this go
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on my website house of kicks.com
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and then take this survey you'll be very
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beneficial to you and to me
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all right now with that say let's jump
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into the actual uh differences
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i have my pictures here so i'm gonna pin
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them one at a time
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now the very first thing uh with jordan
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fives
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one of the things that the replica
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player can't really get right
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is the netting on the side now if you
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look at this netting here
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you see on the fake one they usually uh
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the holes are like bigger
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and shorter in extension their length is
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shorter i'll show you a better picture
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just shows you this but i want you to
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zero in on the
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red circles here if you see the holes on
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the authentic pair like
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thinner well longer on the fake one they
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are like
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shorter or bigger okay and also the
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plastic material that they use on the
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fake one is like a hard plastic so if
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you put your finger on that that thing
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can break
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it's not really soft i'm gonna show you
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another picture
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to emphasize this more now you see this
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is the fake one again
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you see the holes here are like shorter
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or thicker they are bigger they have
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more girth
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on the fake one on the authentic one
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they are like thinner but longer they
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are more extended
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so this is one of the areas that you
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want to focus on
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now let's go on to something else i'm
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going to show you the tongue
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now look on the authentic you can tell
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like the tongue is more vibrant it's
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like striking it's just
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almost like has a 3d uh feel to it
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and if you look at the definitions are
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very clear you can see everything on the
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fake one
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the thong is first like flimsy
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and it's just this area is just like
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jacked up and the jumpman itself looks
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awful
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like you can clearly tell the difference
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when you look at this i just want you to
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pause and just
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zero in on these pictures a little more
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let me give you a close-up look you can
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see that right
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you see look at the jump ring here look
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at the jump here you're so vibrant on
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the authentic pair and just
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awful on the fake one even the
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definition inside like the shapes are
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just
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awful on the fake ones let's jump into
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the next uh
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thing now one of the areas they always
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mess up is the jump ring
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this is just it never fails but if you
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look at this body back here right
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i'm going to put my picture all the way
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up here now if you look at the back here
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the distance between the bottom of the
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jumpman and the edge of the midsole
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is bigger on the fake pair you can see i
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put the red line the yellow line to show
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you that
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and the jumper in itself is awful on the
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fake one
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is if he has more girth he's like look
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at the belly look at the hand he's just
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totally awful looking this jumper is
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much you know i'm not saying that
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you know jordan jordan brain jumpman
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looks like they're better but
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it looks much better if you look at his
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jump band and his jump man come on you
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can tell
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all right the next thing we're going to
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look at is the
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let me get that is one of the areas they
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also mess up a lot
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is the the air chamber
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now if you look this the distance and
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the gap between the screen
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and the edge of the midsole is bigger on
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the authentic pad it's always something
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that they mess up
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now if you look at the screen of the
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fake bear it's almost adjacent to the
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edge you can barely see that there's a
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gap here it's almost like
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stuck to the edge of the midsole and
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also i wanted to focus in on
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uh this this method itself like the
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material that is used
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here is of a better quality this is like
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rough and rugged and it looks cheapish
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when you look at it if you look at
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look at it closely you and you can see
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that the next thing we want to talk
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about
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is uh i'm actually gonna let's see if i
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can actually fast forward this real
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quick let me see if i can get this
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here to go actually let's just go back
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to this
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i don't want to show you the box here
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there's another area that i wanted to
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show you
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which i should have pulled up but i
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didn't do that and that's
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my fault so just give me a minute i'll
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pull that up in a second for you
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let's do that i'll pull that up in a
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second for you just
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give me just just be patient let's do
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that real quick
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and this is this area that i wanted to
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show you i have a bunch of pictures on
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my phone here so my on my computer so
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i apologize for that now if you look at
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the bottom
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on the top here like on the fake top
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it's like almost
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flat okay you see it's flat here it's
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not curvy
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this looks like an open parabola a
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parabola that opens upward
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okay you can see that on the fake one
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it's flat and you can see that it's like
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it's almost like it looks like a trapeze
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trapezoid here you see this you can tell
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right you see that that difference here
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and also the material that is used like
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you can clearly see the lines here like
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the definition is crazy
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on a fake on the authentic pair is more
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subtle the material used is not the same
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and then let's jump into the box label
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this is also
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one of the things that they mess up now
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this is a clear fake
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right you can see that on effect when
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they use like a black label so i'm not
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gonna talk too much on it that's just if
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you see they just stay away from it
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because they use the wrong label here
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it's not the right label and the
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colorway is just wrong
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but on another fake they have the right
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label
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but there's also something that you can
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notice here now if you look at the
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the the front of the letters it's almost
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like
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much more bold on the fake pair and it's
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almost eligible you can't even read
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anything here like here is so clear you
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see grape
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ice new emerald black on the fake one
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you can't you can barely read it
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living it made in china look it's clear
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here is refined when the fake
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is like compacted you can't even see
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what it is so it's hard to look at it
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it's hard to look at
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the letters because the print is just
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awful
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now this is all that i have as far as
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like this shoe is concerned but there's
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also something that i wanted to mention
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which i always talk about when it comes
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to like authenticating your own shoe
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like now what has happened is this nike
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has put what you call the
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the qr code and the rfid identifier on
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the shoe
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okay now what is the qr code the qr code
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if you look at your labels like i should
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have done that here
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the qr code is uh this one here
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this this the bigger the bigger one the
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bigger square it looks like a
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scattergram now
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when you scan this code on your shoe it
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should take you to nike's website
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now the fake prayer also can do that
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because all they have to do just copy
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and paste this qr code so
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that's really not a big deal because you
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can take
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you can replicate this qr code but the
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rfid
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is where the it's a game changer and i i
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shared a video on it
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on my youtube channel again uh where you
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can actually get access to it
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on this on this show you can just go on
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the website and click on it and it's
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going to take you and it shows you
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exactly how to do it
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but i want to explain a couple of things
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now if you look at your label now on
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most shoes
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behind the label there's like this
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little metal
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uh silver piece here this is what
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connects to the
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rfid uh reader he has an antenna in it
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and so when you have that label behind
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you have that little piece behind so
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basically it's almost like your dna this
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identifies unique to your shoe
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so when you buy a shoe from a store
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stored in this thing in this little
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piece of thing here the
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metal pieces all the provenance and the
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information of the snicker where it came
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from what sizes and all that kind of
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good stuff
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so this cannot be duplicated somebody
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said they might be duplicating this but
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i don't think i doubt it i highly doubt
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it
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they may put a fake um metal piece but
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it's not going to have any information
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in it because this is expensive
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technology and it's not cheap so i don't
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think bootleggers are going to want to
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do that
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and even if they do they might put some
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bad information and you you might see
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where the shoe is coming from i don't
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know but i may be wrong
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but this is just one thing that you can
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do you see
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so this is the i5d chip behind the label
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it's
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i'm explaining that on the website on
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the video so you may want to watch that
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video
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okay i want to show back this is your
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rfid and this is the qr code
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okay so basically um this is it for this
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sneaker so
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i will encourage you to go back on my
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website and to read this more
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if you want more information and by the
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way if you want to buy this shoe
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you can go on my website and click it
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and actually buy it or i will point you
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to the right direction
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all right again thanks for watching and
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this is ty from master kicks
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and
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