I'm gonna talk to you guys about my methods on how I make a bunch of money
off of you shoes and how I used to do it back when I was in high school because
I'm telling you right now bro back when I was a youngster oh yeah I was getting
to it
welcome back to the channel what's up with you guys how you doing how you been
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algorithm all so much so let's go ahead and get into this video the first thing
that I want to say is shout out to the fix kicks because I got a great deal on
a pair of shoes and they will be the shoes that I'm using in the example for
today's video and also shout out to my boy Davey got cakes because he was the
one that was help you know proxy or whatever you want to call it pick up the
shoes for your boy so let's go ahead and open this box up real quick see what
shoes we got inside and let's see how much money we can make off of them we
got some toilet paper and we got the shoes so first things first I just want
to say shout out to David guy kicks if you guys haven't already go check out
his site he got some Louie Vuitton toilet paper for people right now and
the times of the need when it comes to the toilet paper might as well do it
with luxury breath oh my gosh I did not know he was about the Citiz to me either
so basically these were available at the fix kicks at their shop down there in
the bay I hit him up I was like Brian needs you to pick those up I seen it was
for a smoking deal they're my size I got high school you know memories of all
that right there so he ended up picking up the shooters for me these were 40
bucks and he also saved me some Louis Vuitton toilet paper you know I'm saying
gotta stay fresh so clean I'll show you guys the tutorial on how to use this and
how to properly wipe in another video but for today we're just gonna stay on
this topic thanks again for the toilet paper
alright y'all let's get into the video so here we have it a size 13 air jordan
one retro alpha white university blue and these came out back in like 2007 or
something like that and I remember they dropped when I was in high school
everybody had to have them with the picture on the side it was just some
dough back when Abby was coming out all those different
things so these for me nostalgic memories these still got the Air Jordan
on the tongue and on the back here on the heel this is before the high-tops
was a thing and the man's was really like a thing for people so you gather
turn together beat whatever you want to call it but I think it's gonna be worth
it and this is what I would do back when I was in high school and that's what I
want to talk about first how would I make a bunch of money off of shoes like
this as dirty and beat-up is everything like that
this is how I do it I would always find shoes like this they had great prices
cuz I'm like I know the potential of the shoe not what is currently out right now
but I saw the value in it later after I got done you know put my work into it
cleaning it up scrubbing it trying to get some of the creases out get some of
the dirt off fix the suede relase it tie it up you know clean the tongue up clean
the outside clean the midsole insult you know I'm saying you kind of get where
I'm going with this right so after I have that notion in my head already
thinking like hey what are these shoes gonna be worth all those different
things back in the day there was no apps like go and stock eggs and all these
different things like that it was just straight-up posted on
Craigslist trying to figure it out on Facebook marketplace hit up some homies
at the high school see if they wanted to shoe different things like that but I
know if I could get the shoe for 40 bucks retail is like a hundred in
something I might be able to try to get close to retail now that the shoe saw
all this some people might still want it different things like that so let's go
ahead and clean this shoe up we'll figure out what they compared to prices
at the end of the video and then we'll kind of determine how much we could sell
this you for and determine what the profit would be if I were to sell this
shoe after I bought that for 40 bucks in this video I'm going to clean one of the
shoes so that way you can see the difference between the clean version and
then the dirty version so you can see kind of what I did and how much I was
able to increase the value based off of that so with that being said let's go
ahead and get into it if we're gonna get these laces out - gotta clean those
that's the dirty is all right there we definitely gotta clean that these are
all light blue with the suede on there and then it's got leather here on the
white panels and then a leather kind of picture here whether swooshes it so this
is a new buck so we're gonna kind of try to take you careful with it I know that
these in particular probably not gonna really notice that much you're probably
gonna definitely get some of that dirt out of there and clean it up and then
which I'm sprucing it up a little bit with some mink oil so let's go ahead and
start cleaning the sole and then we'll work our way to the upper and knock that
out and then we'll see what it looks like somebody definitely wore these to
the beach because there was like a lot of sand and
but that's a whole nother issue so you can see some quick scrubbing is already
just getting that main dirt off and then we'll get a little bit deeper in there
after we get this man coated dirt off and then try to get the little details
with all these spots right here in the crack okay so we got a lot of the main
dirt off that also right now you can see it's starting to show a little bit more
color not as dirty looking and we got to get in the cracks now so let me get a
little exacto knife or some scissors or something
let me just one sec I know this seems like it's a little bit extra but trust
me when I tell you this could change the value of the shoe see right here this is
a gum that's probably been sitting on the sulfur I don't know how many years I
guarantee has been sitting on the soil for years and they never got it off so
I'm gonna use the exacto knife you don't have to worry about touching it or
nothing and you can just scrape it out cuz it gets super hard so this is gonna
change the game where I'm telling you the little things okay so now we got
some of the bigger stuff off of there and now let's go ahead and get in these
cracks with the toothbrush you know classic old school style so as you can
see right here the tongue there's really really dirty and I got to get that
cleaned off with the leather and everything and then we got our work our
way to the upper right here and get this part of the shoe so got the midsole
cleaned up a little bit that also is looking a lot better so let's go ahead
and get into the upper real quick you can see right there just from the first
scrub and how much cleaner it is just because his leather is so much easier to
clean when there's a lot of dirt on it people think that's white leather is
give me ah bruh just give it a little bit of carbon I promise you it'll be
alright for now I'm gonna use a softer bristle on the upper right here and just
work my way in a circular motion all around the upper try to clean out that a
new bug that suede whatever you want to call it
honestly this is coming out pretty cool ain't mad at sort of Booty me back here
is still pretty dirty so we're gonna hit down at the end of the toothbrush so we
can get a little bit deeper right there on the white part of the man saw cuz I
gotta get that main dirt off here so I look crispy and white again yeah I'm
saying it's kind of like I this is the part where you got to put
that elbow grease in there but trust me it's gonna be worth it you can always
tell if somebody's a car owner or not by the Hillard a foot everybody goes to
that struggle breath looking pretty solid okay so now there's like a satin
sock liner on these right here so I'm gonna hit that with the brush just
trying to clean it out a little bit you know try to get some of that dirt from
you know they he'll sweat and all that extra stuff we gotta get that out of
here okay next thing I want to do is spray them down with some deodorizer on
the inside cuz I don't want to I just can't beat you no I'm saying you just
got a disinfected shoot we're gonna let these dry and we're probably gonna hit
them with some mink oil and then I'll be back at you guys in a minute
okay the shoe is all dry now so let's go ahead and actually feels pretty solid
honestly I feel like I don't even need to hit it with the mink oil I might
bring a little bit of color back but to be honest I'm probably just gonna end up
leaving it like this so I don't even get worried about that
right now it's gonna put the insole in as you can see I got it white crisp and
clean again well as much as I could so I always like to spray that one down as
well and if you want to see how to deep clean
insoles go ahead and check out that link above I have that for a video for you
guys as well on how I go through that whole process now let's go ahead and
lace these up okay so this is basically what its gonna look like right here as
you can see it's looking a lot cleaner the midsole is looking solid everything
like that so let's go ahead and compare it to the other shoe real quick and see
what it looks like lets you guys see some detail shots between the two just
to see kind of the condition on where it was and where its head now so now that
you have seen the difference between the two as you can see the midsole looks
better it's a little bit more icy or more white the new bucket doesn't look
too bad it's laced up it looks a lot cleaner the leather is cleaner the
creasing is gone somewhat obviously they're still yellowing from age I could
get rid of that but I don't really feel like putting that much effort into this
particular shoe but as you can see just a little bit of work a little bit of
elbow grease it could take it a long way and definitely increase the value of the
shoe by doing those little things right there so let's hop over to go out real
quick and check out the price of this shoe as you can see right here we have
the air jordan one retro out for a white university blue this is the same model
obviously it's not a desktop version so we don't want to look at the brand new
prices but let's take it over to the used prices we got use prices as hidden
for around 200 bucks I see 80 bucks I see a
150 bucks so it's kind of all over the place from that hundred to two hundred
dollar range depending on the condition obviously the size plays a factor as
well this is size 13 a lot of size 13 shoes don't go for as much as the
smaller sized shoes do so we got to take that into account as well when it comes
to our profits and things like that so I'm gonna look on two shoes that's in my
size range and that's gonna be a size 12 in a size 13 in that area so let's look
at a size 13 first we got one pair of shoes size 13 they want 200 bucks the
shoe is used pretty good condition they look really really solid they're not as
creased as bad as not a you got his toe in the picture Brad you could have just
moved your foot like bare toe I can see you knuckle of it what's up Brett
anyways they look pretty good condition so as we can tell these are 200 bucks
that's what he's asking for do I think he'll get 200 probably not but it is
what it is and these are not as nice as those so we're gonna already bump our
price down from the $200 as our asking price now let's check the size twelve
and see what that's talking about so we got size twelve right here I've got 150
bucks okay these is pretty clean - these look
pretty solid we got the 190 bucks this is all pretty solid I feel like after
doing some work to these these did get spruce end up a little bit so they
probably might fall in at a hundred and fifty to a hundred and thirty dollar
range if we could try to finesse it but I'm pretty sure we could get over a
hundred bucks so if we do some calculations just assuming that we sold
the shoe for a 120 bucks we bought the sneaker for $40 so what does that mean
we ended up coming up $80 just off of the deal so all we have to do is just
find some shoes that nobody wanted anymore that we're dirty they are
considered beaters different things like that
rockers rotation shoes however you want to call it but a lot of shoes that fall
into that beater rocker category those are shoes that you can still make a good
profit on if you know how to find the right shoe find it for the right price
or talk them down or whatever it may be and the easy ways that you can do this
especially like if you're on high school or something like that just heat up your
homies and be like bro what beaters you got what shoes you're trying to get rid
of what will you let me give for free cuz people will literally just give you
beaters for free bro and then you can literally take those beaters and go
clean them up get them icy do what you can sell them for 50 bucks whatever it
may be and then you take that 50 bucks and then you go buy another pair of
shoes and you buy a pair from your homey or whatever bond from the same
homey whatever it may be and then you take that money you continue to flip it
and continue to grow it and next thing you know you're buying all these
expensive rare sneakers that you want to purchase but I'm telling you right now
when I was 16 when I was 15 this is how I was doing it I was getting a pair of
you shoes shoes that people didn't really want finding stuff on Craigslist
offer up well offer I wasn't really around but different places like that
right and I would go find the shoes I'll hit people over hey I'll get these for
you no offer you 20 bucks 30 bucks 50 bucks and I would always try to stay
under fifty bucks and then I would always try to sell the
shoe for like a hundred bucks so I could at least like try to double my money or
make 40 bucks minimum and always have those little goals and I would set those
little goals and I'll hit those little goals and you have to do these little
things put the time and put the effort in I know a lot of people don't want to
do this but if you don't have a way to make
money and this is an easy way to make money especially if you don't have a lot
of money to invest I guarantee you you can grow your money really fast if you
do it this way and hustle and grind it out and bust out a bunch of shoes and
you know clean them all up and do what you got to do it is definitely possible
because I'm telling you right now I did the same exact thing when I was 16 years
old so at the end of the day I hope this video was helpful I hope you guys
enjoyed this I hope you got something from it I hope I inspired you to do your
first little sneaker mini restoration whatever you like to call it deal and
make your first profit there's a lot of ways to make money off this is simply
just one way but I wanted to introduce this to you guys because I know this is
something that I did when I was 16 years old I don't do it no more
definitely something you can do so with that being said my name is DJ signing
out I gots to go I'm going
yo shout-out to everybody that made it to the end of the video you see I got
the new light and setup I'm setting it up different you know about to be
changing stuff up just a little bit I'm working on setting things up for y'all
too you know just just keep evolving to say the least
but with that being said I need a comment of the day today's comment of
the day is gonna be splash the reason why I'm saying that I gotta I gotta pick
up the shoe again but you know he's shooting that shot right there he gonna
make that cuz if you know where this shot is shot from and what this shot was
for national championship baby splash alright y'all I gotta go don't forget to
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stay tuned for that now I'm out I'm go peace