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Watch Out For The New Batch Of The Fake Air Jordan 11 Cool Grey & Why The Replica Industry Thrives
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Feb 20, 2025
The replica industry is going to continue to thrive because it never runs out of stock like conventional retailers. While Nike and other stockists may no longer carry an item in their inventory, bootleggers have an unlimited stock. They just released a fresh batch of the 2010 Air Jordan 11 Cool Grey in unlimited quantities. Here is how to identify the fakes
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hey what's going on guys this is taiva
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how's the kicks.com
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and i just wanted to quickly uh warn you
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uh a new batch of fake
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jordan 11 cougars on the market and
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chances are
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nike might be dropping the shoe next
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year so the replica
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industry is always like ahead of time so
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they've already released a whole bunch
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of fakes
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but the thing is is the effect that i've
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seen have the 2010
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cougar 11 date on it so i just wanted to
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quickly show you to you
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and then i'm going to show you how you
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can authenticate your pair so you don't
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get gap
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now see this is a fake one i mean the
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shoe looks super nice
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but it's it's funny like you can
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actually tell it's fake right off the
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bat
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and i'm just gonna quickly glance
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through these pictures
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and i'm going to show you something that
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you can do to authenticate it right away
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like
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big on telltale signs
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and then we're going to go through that
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so i just want to quickly glance through
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this
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okay now the first thing is is like most
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fakes
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have this strong glue smell like this
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the smell of the glue is so strong that
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he actually
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hurts your nostrils so if you smell the
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shoe and you smell
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you smell it and it really irritates
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your nostrils
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you already know you got a fake one but
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more than that i kind of wanted to show
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you uh
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something that that i've actually done
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basically
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at this point if you get if you have a
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cool grade
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11 from 2010 you should have uh
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oxidation happening around the parts
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so the shoes is gonna yellow a little
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bit you see this
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and this portion here on the fake pair
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is
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icy blue like so you already know you
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got gat so
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no pair of cool grey right now will have
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will be so icy unless you see
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glowy i don't know if you guys remember
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sea glow it's a component that people
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use to
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to to kind of like bring some life back
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into their uh
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souls so i don't think people are doing
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that anymore so sea glow doesn't i don't
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think anybody's doing it
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so unless you're doing that you know
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most likely any fake is going to be so
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icy clean like this
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now the other thing that i wanted to
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show you is this if you look on the
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tongue
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like we see that the liner on the fake
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one
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it sits like below the outside of the
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tongue like either the liner that places
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that overlaps it doesn't really do that
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it sits like below it you can see it
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over here i pointed it for you so you
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can see
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on the authentic you see you can kind of
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see that they're almost like on the same
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and you can't see the distinction
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there's no distinction there on the fake
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you can kind of see like there's like a
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clear
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gap and that the the the bottom portion
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the liner sits below
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on the edge of the tongue so that's the
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one way you can actually authenticate it
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and then if you look at the fake one on
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the back here
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it's like kind of wrinkly nobody
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actually put the foot on it well you can
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see the wrinkles are
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very very apparent there so if you see
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this just stay away again
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i'm showing the bottom of it you can see
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how i see it looks under on the fake
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bear
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now why am i saying these people go
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tight why do you care
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this is why i'm okay i'm gonna show you
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something now this dude on ebay
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actually there's a guy on ebay that's
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actually selling a fake one and look
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it's going for like 298 300
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already you can see that right now it
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fits our characteristic
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characteristics you can see the bottom
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of it you see that
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i see i mean and dude has no shame like
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he's selling these for like 300
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and he probably paid maybe 150 for it a
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little less
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but i kind of wanted to show you some
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numbers here so we can actually see
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how much this replica industry is
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actually
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killing it right as fast like money is
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concerned imma show you some things
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just give me a couple of seconds
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basically i'm going to show you how
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these people are able to to actually
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make so many shoes and actually
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make that much money you see like if you
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look
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okay they thrive because first of all
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they never run out of stock
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like conventional retailers when when
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foot locker sells out of the cougar 11
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it's over
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you're not gonna get it again until nike
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actually brings it back
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but for the bootleggers it's unlimited
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so
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and if you look like let's say for the
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crude 11 for example
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i'm assuming that nike made about 600
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000 pairs
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okay so let's let me be very
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conservative here so if i if i'm
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assuming that for
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every one authentic pair there are four
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made which is actually unrealistic
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because i know there are a lot more but
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i'm gonna show you just how much money
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these people
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are making like nike if you look at
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nike's revenue
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like the revenue that the actual on
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cougar 11 um
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produced based on 175
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it's about 105 million dollars okay
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because you just do
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175 times 600 000 you come up with 105
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million dollars
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based on our assumptions okay now since
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i said set a ratio of one to four
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and i'm assuming that the fake uh cougar
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eleven itself
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probably for like a hundred dollars or a
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little less some replica actually go for
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like 150 which is crazy
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but let's assume that it sells for a
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hundred dollars so if you times that by
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the two
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million and four hundred thousand pairs
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because we assume that
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for every one uh authentic there's four
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fake that i made
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a few times that by like two million and
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four hundred thousand
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this is how much money the revenue
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are for the fake industry
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240 million dollars okay which exceeds
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retail revenue by 135 million dollars so
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you can see why
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these people are making so much money
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because they get these revenues
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and they're able to pump out better fix
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because now they are actually
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going back to the laboratory and they
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are using expensive machineries
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so this is why you can see stuff like
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this which i'm going to go back in a
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minute i'm going to show you
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on this website here for a second
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let's just go back to the main screen
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i'm going to show you how much
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better fix are being made which is
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incredible because
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you think uh let me see if i can move
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this and go back to oh yeah
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look like these guys i mean look what
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they're making man
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they got the this jordan one shiva told
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us for women i don't even know if these
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are releasing
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but look they're like ahead of schedule
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like they're making
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better and better and better fakes
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by the minute and they're pumping it out
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and that's because people are constantly
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buying them if there was no buyers
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these guys wouldn't be selling it people
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are actually buying it and because
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nobody cares anymore
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the shoe looks great and they actually
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have the jubilee
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jordan 11. look at that i'm going to be
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doing a authentication on that
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this isn't i mean it's crazy stuff man
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but you can kind of see there's always a
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telltale sign like
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what i would suggest to do you do is
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always look at the release
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uh the production date like when i see
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shoes like this
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when i don't have the authentic feral
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name so the best way for you to
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avoid these fakes unless you want to
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wear them for yourself
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is you look at the date the production
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date like
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let's see if i can find a production
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date for this one he didn't release it
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but
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if you look at the production date and
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if you see any seller with it just stay
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away from it
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look they even had a gamble they made a
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fake gamma blues already that's that's
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actually a new batch
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of fake so that's what i'm saying like
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they keep pumping out these fix
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because they never run out of stock you
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see that
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this is how much they're making some
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serious money
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from selling bootlegs and they even have
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like they go as far as like making
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let me see they have the tokyo fives see
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this they even have the
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let's see the supreme uh lows look at
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that they make the fix for playing but
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again
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you can quickly bust these let me see if
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my computer is not going to be too slow
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right now i don't know why this is not
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opening but
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uh wireless is doing that let's look
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like they have
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wolf supreme they have some nike dunk
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that looked like the wu-tang clan color
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they got the
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lightning force i mean they're pumping
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out the cool grade threes they already
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have that in stock
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i mean this is crazy you can see they
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even making hybrids
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and i bet you nike actually looks at
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these people
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and look at this thing we made man
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i mean they got so much money to sit on
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that they actually i mean i showed you
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they exceeded retail by 135 million
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dollars
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so does that surprise you no it's not
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surprising look they've been making
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let me see if this is gonna open now
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still not opening all right we're not
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gonna worry about it
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but basically you saw what i'm saying so
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i just want you to be careful
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you know because those fake cool grades
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are going to hit the market and you can
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see they already on ebay
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so be careful uh when you make your
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purchases that's all i wanted to warn
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you about
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again if you want to read the entire
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article on my website i released it and
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i wrote a bit about
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uh fake shoes and everything so you can
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go on my website and check that out
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other than that man i don't have
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anything else so actually
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now this picture showed now for the
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supreme
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this is the wrong they have the wrong
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tag so as soon as you see the stack stay
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away from it
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it's just this is not the right tag for
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the supreme uh
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lows so you can stay away and these
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shoes actually
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let me show you how much
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they go for because you got to be very
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careful
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they go for like uh three i like some
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some are going for like a thousand
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dollars so
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you don't want to get got on that you
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don't want to you don't want that to
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happen to you so you have to be
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extremely
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careful okay so these came out i guess
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originally in 2000 so let's type the
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style number 304 292 131
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304
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c292 uh
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let me see what's the other digits one
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three one
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uh let's see so you can see they go for
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like
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i see five thousand dollars for these
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shoes so you wanna be
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definitely careful because you know
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someone's gonna try to get take
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advantage of you
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so i'll show you what the box looks like
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and i'll show you the see
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this is how the the stick is supposed to
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be like this is the nike dunk low pro xb
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okay the fake one have the wrong tag so
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you might as well just not even bother
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as soon as you see this stay away from
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me
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they chose the right box but they have
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the wrong label on it
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but this is it and the elephant print
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kinda is a dead giveaway because it
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looks cheapy she looks like
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it there's not there's no crack on it so
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i won't even bother
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all again thanks for watching this is
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time for monster kicks and stay tuned
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