- Hi, I'm Clare, and welcome back to my YouTube channel.
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(water bubbling)
So, I play a sport called tag rugby,
I also have not been known to dabble in touch rugby,
but tag rugby would be my main squeeze.
Tag rugby is a non-contact version of league rugby.
As part of being involved in the sport,
there's lots of things to spend your money on.
And one of the things are ridiculously flashy boots.
I have astro boots, I have firm ground boots,
and I have soft ground boots.
I'm lucky that I have children's sized feet
because I get ridiculously expensive, flashy boots,
and I get them for half the price
that normal sized adult (laughs) would get them for.
For the last year or so,
I've been steadfastly wearing one brand of boot,
the rainbow, kind of,
lookin' Flyknit CR7s
from the Cristiano Ronaldo Nike range.
Is it Nike or Nike?
I don't know.
I love these boots.
The very first pair that I got,
I actually got them for 1/2 price.
They were 70 pounds I think.
And I wore those for, like, a year solid.
I managed to get a second pair
for a similar price, just totally lucky,
went on when it just happened
to be selling off the last of the line,
and they did have my size,
which is a size 4, tiny.
When I just started wearing the brand new pair,
I managed to lose one.
Just one boot.
When this happened,
I knew I needed to get another new pair of boots,
but unfortunately, all the sales are over, so,
a hundred and fifty squids, is what it cost me.
Hundred and fifty squids to replace my boots.
Now, in my googling
and my searching
and trying to find a cheaper version,
Google did recommend me a company called DHgate,
and they seemed to have exactly the boots
that I was lookin' for, for only $45.
Now, I am no idiot.
I didn't come down in the last shower,
do you know what I mean?
Do you know what I'm sayin'?
Like, I know which way is up.
So, I knew that these
possibly weren't going to be real Nike boots.
I watched an awful lot of videos on YouTube
about other people reviewing these boots,
and for every video that I watched,
it seemed to me, like,
they were very, very good fakes.
As in, from watchin' the video
it was hard for me to pinpoint
what was wrong with them.
Think maybe in a lot of videos
they weren't comparing the two sets of boots,
so couldn't immediately pick out what the issue was.
So, I went on to DHgate, and I ordered these boots.
I noticed they had a couple of color options
that don't exist in Nike Mercurial boots,
so that sort of hammered it home for me
that they couldn't possibly be real at all.
But I said, "Fuck it. It's for a video."
So, I recently received these boots.
Insert footage of me opening them here.
Unfortunately, I don't think
that this would be overstating the mark
to describe it as the most,
the single most disappointing purchase of my entire life.
I'm early for my match, so,
I thought that I would try on these boots because, like,
I need to try them on, really,
but I don't think I'm gonna be able to wear them.
So these are my Nike soft ground boots.
Or is it Nike or Nike?
Who knows?
And then there's my CR7s.
These are also Mercurial CR7s,
these are soft ground,
and these are firm ground.
I just really like them.
Here are the fakes.
They look the same size to me.
They do, but they just feel a lot bigger.
Maybe they're higher or something, are they?
Jeez, now, they're not bad.
They're Flyknit and that's not bad.
Jeez, there isn't as much support, though.
The ankle part,
that's pretty good, that's pretty sturdy, actually.
This part's what I'm worried about.
(knuckles knocking)
The actual CR7s much harder to get on
'cause they fit better.
Just feels so much sturdier.
I watch loads of these videos before I bought it,
and they all showed me the look of the boot,
and then they were like,
"These are all really good fakes."
That's not a good fake, like.
If you promised me that was a real boot,
I still wouldn't believe ya.
You can get cheap boots,
just don't buy fake boots.
'Cause you know what's gonna happen.
For those of you that know me from The TRY Channel,
you know that Here's Kellie is on The TRY Channel,
behind The TRY Channel,
and she also plays tag rugby
with me because I got her into it.
And I got her to react to these boots,
if you could call them boots.
- [Clare] So those are supposed to be the same as my ones.
- Okay.
(Clare laughs)
No.
- [Clare] $45 wasted!
- Genuinely feel I could rip this, I won't.
- [Clare] Yeah, don't.
They do look similar, but Jesus,
they don't feel similar. - This was my favorite
one, I think.
So you're a seven on this is.
- [Clare] Yeah, it's copied off the adult ones.
The adult ones have that CR7.
The kids ones have this CR7.
Jeez, I really see how dirty my boots are now.
- Great, money well spent I say.
(Clare laughs)
- I once had a pair of boots that cost me an actual tenner.
They were children's boots,
so they were 40 or 50 euros full price,
and they were on sale for a tenner,
and they lasted me ages.
There is no problem with those boots,
they were perfectly good Puma Evos
that were just on sale for 10 euros.
Ludicrously, like, ridiculously cheap.
These were 45 euro,
and they are nowhere near as good as those 10 euro Evos
because they're not real boots.
They look pretty good,
they look like quite a good fake,
but they are not good fakes, whatsoever.
Whatsoever.
Cool Whip.
Whatsoever.
Immediately, you can tell the bottom is not the same.
They just look and feel
so much cheaper around the base of the boot.
Now, this ankle part here,
I will actually give a props,
is pretty good and in terms of it being a fake,
it's quite close to the Flyknit fabric
of the real Mercurials.
But there are small things that give it away,
like the width of the sock.
It doesn't hug you in the same place as in your ankle
where the real Mercurial, Mercurial.
So hard to talk.
Where the real Mercurial hugs you,
(shoe tapping)
it's real cheap stuff.
Which infuriates me because they weren't cheap,
they were $45 before postage.
Now, that to me is an expensive boot
because I will absolutely pay a hundred and fifty euros
for a real pair of CR7s because I've played in them
for like a year and a half,
and I know that they protect my ankle.
I understand that if you've never,
you know, had an expensive pair of boots,
you've never really spent money on boots,
that you might look at these,
and you may think, like, "They look really fancy,
"they look good."
And they do, definitely look good.
It's just, when you put them beside a real pair,
you can really, really tell and feel the difference.
I'm fumin' that I spent 45 euros,
because that's not a cheap experiment.
You know, I was kinda tellin' myself,
"Look, if they come and they're fake, like,
"worst case scenario,
"I just get a video out of it."
But like, that is just the worst investment
I think I've ever made.
And like, I'm not gonna where these at all.
Review, bad.
Don't buy from DHgate, they're terrible, terrible fakes.
Ah!
Gah!
Just don't do it!
Zero out of 10.
Fuckin' terrible.
Just go on Sports Direct when there's a sale on,
or go to Elverys when there's a sale on,
this is not sponsored by me,
but I do go to those companies.
But that is where I get my boots.
That's where I got my first pair of boots,
down from a hundred fifty to 70 euros or pounds.
I can't remember whether it was elverys.co.uk
or Elverys Ireland.
Can't remember where I got my second pair of boots,
but my third pair of boots I got on Amazon
for a full price, a hundred and fifty quid,
but they were real, they were real.
Either cough up for the fancy boots, or get a cheaper boot,
because even the cheaper boots are better quality
than that shite.
Sorry to be blunt about it.
I hope that this video was helpful.
When I was researching this,
I felt like there wasn't enough videos that were, like,
really telling me whether or not I should go
for these fakes.
They were like, "Yeah, they're fake,
"but they look really good."
And it's like.
I hope this video fills that void
of actual quality review, and like,
telling you whether or not you should buy them
and you should and you definitely shouldn't.
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(upbeat music)
My ear is popping, I'm like, "I'm sorry."
I'm so full of hay fever right now,
that I'm having a very difficult time doing anything.