today we're going to be talking about how joe was able to go from selling
sneakers at his house to now having his own warehouse
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the algorithm oh so much today we got to talk about this doe i'm excited to hear
your story bro so so talk to me about where it all
first started all right so supreme i first found out
about i saw these fox logo hoodies hidden for like
seven eight hundred dollars seeing all these crazy resell prices
of course that caught my eye right the hoodie couldn't be that expensive there
had to be some sort of profit there so okay found out about that didn't
quite flip those six seven hundred dollar box levels but i
did make some good side money flipping fifty sixty dollar t-shirts you know
something when i was sixteen at the time that was big for me so right you saw
this morning you have sophomore year got some money
okay okay each week on the supreme drops i just keep taking the money i made the
week before putting into the new drop i would make
sure to sell on ebay a day right after the drop camp and like
literally 15 minutes after i had to have my listing up so it was only so
sold by the first period you know okay um and then you get to
you get to maybe like a year or so into it and you see more sneaker world and
understanding that a little bit kind of dabbling in yeah how did that kind of
transition i went from just going for the supreme
drops every thursday because that's the only time they released their product
doing that and then the offseason i would flip the used stuff
um like use box all the hoodies make a little bit of money on the side
and from there i started flipping some more hyped shoes i guess like did some
trades with supreme stuff was like okay might as well you know this off-white
shoe has some money in it like the supreme shirt does
so figuring out what has money to it from there
a few people had wanted to sell stuff to me and
found out a couple platforms that was really easy to do and i was like okay
i'll give this a shot um and from there yeah one turn to 10 10
dirt 100 you know how it is after that right
when you first started getting those kicks like you're saying 110 10 to
100 all those things where was it out or like this is my goal
or i need to get to this point to be able to
get that first purchase of you know 50 pairs of shoes out
because i remember i bought 87 pairs of shoes for my first boat deal
and i'll never forget that day yeah because i was like this was the one
and it was like a lot of terrible stuff and then but there was some good stuff
in there too of course but for me i was just so happy about
that day so how was it like how did you do that to get to that
point so my goal has never really been to like
beat someone else or like hit a certain number but it was really
just to like sell more shoes than i did the month before right so simple as that
you know as long as i'm beating my last month and
i'm seeing some sort of progress like you make it worse that's a good sign
my goal has always been that and yeah just keep pushing from there
so so you're selling sneakers for a year or two years
and then you ran into the concept of bots
and different things like that so typically a lot of people would have
people go out camp for them hit up a bunch of homies try to get the plug
bringing in all these different pairs of shoes to be able to pick up 20 pairs of
shoes on a release or something like that
and it became this new wave this new era because when i first started you know 10
years ago 15 years ago it wasn't that option
that was never option it wasn't online sales it was a lot of camping out
and that just wasn't a thing yeah so when you when you ran into that
what were you scared about it were you like didn't know who to talk to about it
how did you kind of find where to go when i first got in the
box um i joined something called a cook
group okay which it's like a group that's a
paid to pay discord i was paying someone 20
a month to just like kind of talk about like bots and like
familiarize myself with like online buying shoes to reach out that kind of
stuff first got into that and i was just doing
supreme still at the time as well okay so kind of in that same
that one two year frame i was still i was doing
supreme stuff um every thursday botting that site
getting a few items more than i was able to like by myself just on the website
so i saw that and then of course supreme only has the three months of selling the
product so i got to figure out something to do
right right so naturally shoes shipped with that
and then i started botting shoes and then as i got more money
from selling the shoes i would keep dumping all my money in to get
more and more pairs right right so uh profits and then you have your own kind
of group coming now and everything like that talk about that for a quick sec
yeah so i run a group called west notify okay
which is a group kind of like the one when i first joined where
we teach you how to use the bots but this is a more evolved quicker
cooker so it's not anything like when i first joined it two three years ago
they've gotten a lot better as is mine and we
sit down and teach you one-on-one go on to your computer show you exactly how to
set up the bot for success so you can hopefully have
luck at hitting all these pairs like this
so definitely if somebody was interested in that they could get in touch with you
which we'll have a link down below different things like that you know
to try to take that next step into getting into botting and growing course
and doing those type of things so when it comes to scaling your group
of people that you're teaching and then scaling your bots to purchase
more is it having the amount of money to just
purchase more or is it the advanced bot that you're using or what is it when
it comes to that and then do you have like we only use 100 people
we're only going to have 100 people in our team or
you know how is it going to grow with bots yes a big part of it is capital and
the money you have okay um let's also definitely be able to
use the software to most advantage but the way like i sell shoes i'm more
risky so i'm totally willing to dump literally all of
my money into the shoe because i have enough trust
right that she's gonna flip and it's gonna make me a dollar or something
i'm not gonna go home with an l so i've got that confidence one in the shoe
and then also have like the right bots and the right
software because i'm constantly around similar people that do this
so we share ideas we share what bots are working
and then those people even run their bots on my credit card so
they'll help me get the pairs like that it's a big team that they've got
and that's kind of what the group is all about makes sense makes sense
you have the confidence now right but when you first got into that first
bot deal when you first did those first couple
transactions or releases what was your mindset how did you actually feel
because i know there's a lot of people that are very interested that want to
take that first step but they just don't even know what to feel because they've
never felt that feeling of like is this a scam what's going to go on
like am i going to get my shoes you know so what were you thinking in
in that moment before that first purchase came through and then
after that satisfaction thoughts kind of have like a negative stigma
to them you know as it's kind of like a touchy cheese subject right
like is it like illegal or like like what's wrong with it um and really
it's like it's gotten to the point where like only
bots can like eat on certain websites like there's
like there's just no way like a regular person like us could be on our
computer because the bots have taken over
right so it's almost like maybe people should just start playing that same game
and getting boston boyle like yeah because it's like it's kind of if
you don't join them you're not going to be right there's and it's almost like
that new evolution where the potential right right and
that's like for me i'm like in that point where it's like
i'm not against it i'm not for it i don't know
i'm just like it's kind of amazing i just like shoes you know what i'm saying
like i'm a sneaker collector i've always been a collector first and
then you know obviously i hustled to build my collection to build
my net worth all those things but it was essentially for my collection
so i'm still in the in between i don't know
how i feel about it i can't say it's right i can't say it's
wrong all i know is if you're getting your dough and you're hustling you're
doing it right you're doing your thing like i can't be
mad at it i can't knock the husband at all
so it's been a tough time right now there's been a lot of stuff going on
people have been getting their packages extremely late you got issues but like a
shoe comes out it goes to stockx but then it's like i didn't get my package
for two weeks were you able to still create success
during this crazy time these past three four months right now
what were you able to do to still create that success fortunately like
shoes are one of like the one business that like
really have like thrived more than anything like through covid so
a lot of people have um because we were in quarantine for a long
time so a lot of people have just disposable income
and then checks and where's that money going to unemployment checks all that
kind of stuff is flowing through people aren't used to
having this kind of money so it's going right to shoes
um and thankfully for us like we've stayed afloat and done better than ever
really um so is there like a bit of time like
the stores are all closed so everything was releasing on online so
it was even that much easier because like all the stock is online so it's all
for us even more so that makes sense it makes sense so what is your uh what
is your plan for attack when hopefully
everything gets back to normal do you think that
there will be a slow or maybe a minor decline
and then finding a new way to get money again or
is things just going to stay like this for a long time because a lot of people
saying there's just too much money in the market right now there's a lot of
stuff going on it's only going to last for a certain
amount of time the documentary made all these jordans go up in value
all these different factors what do you think about that because i've been
thinking a lot about 2021 2022 what's gonna happen my whole
look on like the whole sneaker bubble thing is it's like
of course more people are good and more people are selling shoes but like more
people are also buying shoes too so just as long as they both kind of stay
on the same upwards path like we should be fine
everything's still gonna be money and shoes and people are still interested in
them as far as i see i don't see it going
away anytime soon gotcha okay so you've done all this stuff building this
business and this brand and everything around it
like i said i'm a collector first and you're kind of more mindset around
the sneakers and the values and flipping and hustling and everything so
when it comes to your actual sneaker collection where you at i noticed that a
lot of people that have warehouses different stuff
they're like all i need is 20 bangers or 30 pairs or whatever they kind of just
cap it and they stay there yeah so i guess you could say that's me
too i mean i got like 20 30 pairs of shoes like which is still
definitely like a lot more than the regular
person right but i don't have like every single
shoe by any means i mean like these are like
my dailies runners like that i've got a few cool jordan ones and like
tom sacks prestos that kind of stuff okay so you're doing a lot of like new
release stuff when it comes to the buyouts for
sneaker collections and like older stuff and everything like that
yeah is that something you plan on branching more into
or is it just mainly focused on a lot of the newer hotter stuff we just trying to
tackle everything so i'm trying to get as many new releases i
can i'm trying to buy out as many of this and trying to just
put my feed into everything like whatever okay whatever we can hustle
like we're we're gonna be there so you'd rather put
something on consignment than take it in and do consignment through
your home business yeah yeah so donald road who knows where we are and
maybe we'll take in consignment but for now like
unless you've got like a really special sample shoe or something that's just
it doesn't really make sense but you can sign right now i get that i get that
yeah okay so i got a couple questions too what is like the craziest
hit that you didn't have like with the box where you didn't got a bunch of
pairs and you're like how did i do this this really worked
yeah so before kobe passed rit kobe i got like just over 200 pairs of the
undefeated kobe's oh yeah which now at the now they're
hidden hidden but at the time like right after the release
they they were still doing decent numbers and like that was
really impressive that was all my own stuff one bot all shipped
which uh which colorway did you get i got all four polaroids oh we got the
pack and i still have the basketball hoops back
there that's fire yeah yeah and then was the one that you
just like literally just got so many pairs you're
like bro i've never bought this many pairs of shoes off about before a month
or two ago we just got we had like 18 1900 pairs of the concord 11
um lows yeah the lows yeah those we just uh they just made them a big gr but they
still sold so you're like had no problem moving more
than one person almost 2 000 pairs of shoes yep just off of one
release one one drop that's crazy and then you talk
about selling to other people so you're more in selling in the bulk i
say like if you post something on ig you're like
10 minimum 100 minimum whatever maybe always it's always that
so just makes it easier on us because i mean as you can see like we got a lot of
shoes in here we can't afford to sell one by one for every
individual client so for us like it's always been about like as many pairs as
we can sell so i my instagram intensificators are just
like people who are looking for bulk shoes and like looking to make a dollar
on my deal so somebody wants to do the same exact
thing as you and go out here and cop a bunch of pairs of shoes do all these
same things and learn from you how much is it going to cost for them to
join you come underneath your wing and learn everything you know and
flourish too so for the group um we start
50 a month okay and that's our west notify group that teaches you
all the bot stuff one-on-one with the people who hit some
people hit more pairs than me in our group so you're getting taught
by literally the best people in the
community so there's no other spot to learn so it's
like a monthly subscription yeah you pay 50 bucks
yep give you free giveaways each month all sorts of stuff
in there tons of stuff check out the instagram it's got everything you need
definitely okay so make sure we have that link down below if you're
interested in that honestly that's low-key a pretty good
deal like 50 bucks a month not bad like you're investing yourself that's
really good actually that's like one flip
and you're good like you already made your money back so i think that's gonna
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