today i'm gonna be trading eight pairs of shoes plus three hundred dollars for one pair of shoes
i'm gonna be dropping a lot of dimes in this video explaining to you guys how to save money
how to level up on your trades how to consolidate and how to profit off of every single deal that
you do so please stick around and stay tuned for the end of the video to see what we get
welcome back to the channel what's up with you guys how you doing how you been if you did not
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things first i want to explain to you guys why i'm making this trade and then i'll explain to you
guys the whole process along the way typically i don't see people doing this that often on youtube
really diving into the numbers and explaining what they got the shoe for how much is worth
now the profit on the trade how much they were able to level up and why they did the trade for
those reasons we don't see trading that often but i'm telling you right now there is definitely a
lot of value in trading shoes still to this day so hopefully this video is a great example and again
at the end of the video you guys will see what i get and you'll be able to make your judgment
if i made a good trade or not so the first thing that i want you to do is make sure that you have
a list of the sneakers that you are looking to trade and then you want to make a price list of
what you spent on each and every sneaker so we're going to go through all the sneakers that we have
right here the eight different shoes and then we'll talk about the 300 that will add into the
video a little bit later first we have the lime air jordan 6's right here size 13. i hit for these
on sneakers app and got them for 190 bucks no tax here in oregon so i'm definitely a happy camper
spending 190 on them in today's market these are gonna hit for around 230 bucks so that's where
we're going to price them at today next up we have a size nine pair of neutral gray air jordan ones i
ended up picking these up a while ago and then i ended up finally getting a second pair in my
size i got these just because i wanted to trade them for 13 and then i bought another size 13 and
i ended up spending 300 on this pair right here and they go for roughly around 450 bucks as you
can see right there from the first two shoes we're already up a couple hundred dollars in
profit on the sneakers next up we have the wings air jordan 5 low i got two pairs of these off the
sneakers app i ended up giving one pair away and i got the other pair for myself but then
i realized like i didn't really graduate anything this year so i'm willing to make a trade for these
because i don't really need them in my collection i got these for 190 retail and they're going for
around 225 right now next we have a size 12 cool gray air jordan 3. i have a size 13 so i don't
really need the size 12 anymore i actually have a few different pairs of this shoe in multiple sizes
other than 13 so i'm definitely willing to make trades for those as well we can talk about that in
a whole another video but i got these for retail for 190 bucks and they're currently going for 230
so again we're winning on that shoe as well next up we have the flint 7 down here size 13. these
were 190 retail it was a super easy cop and i knew they didn't really have much value over the retail
but i didn't really care because i really like the shoe i ended up doubling up on the shoe and i
was like if i got multiples why do i need to keep all of them so i'm going to get rid of this pair
they're currently clocking in around 200 bucks even 190 depending on who you're selling to but
we're going to kind of factor it at 200 bucks next up we have the jubilee air jordan 11 retail was
225 i ended up picking up two pairs in a size 12 for retail i was very very sad about that because
i wanted a 13 so i'm willing to make a trade for my size 12 to get another shoe that i desire
currently these are going for around 330 bucks right now and i definitely think they have room to
continue to increase in value but i'm definitely taking that into consideration when it comes to
the shoe that i'm trading for and the value that i'm winning in and then what it could potentially
go up to as well which we'll talk about a little bit later in the video next up we have the legend
blue 11 lows i got these for retail at 190 dollars they're currently going for around 230 bucks just
a little bit over retail and last on the list we have the top haze air jordan 4. now i ended
up picking up two pairs of these the first pair i got for 250 bucks and the second pair i ended up
getting for retail but we're gonna consider this as the pair that i spent more money on
so we're gonna say that i spent 250 bucks on this pair right here and currently those are
valued at 375 bucks somewhere around there the grand total of things when it comes to money
out of pocket that i actually physically spent on all of these sneakers it was fifteen hundred and
thirty five dollars for these eight pairs of shoes now when you calculate the total resale value of
these eight pairs of shoes we're talking about two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars in
resale value so that leaves a 735 dollar window of profit that i have on these shoes just alone
if i were to sell them for cash so another local sneaker head slash reseller from around the way
he has a pair of trophy room air jordan 5's i have been looking to get these in my oh sorry not the
baby blue pair the friends and family i have been looking to get that pair in particular honestly
both pairs in particular in my collection but the red pair i need those he hit me up with the offer
with the size 13 pair that he has dead stock friends and family version he's missing the box
which does kind of hurt because this is like a four thousand dollar shoe but that's okay
we're going to knock some value down on the shoe and hopefully i can get it for around 2 500 in
total value on the trade and that's what brings up the topic of consolidating your collection
how can you have multiple shoes and turn it into strictly fire sometimes people always ask the
question how do you get all those samples how do you get all those pes how do you get those
friends and family if you make deals like this it can definitely make it easier for you to have
those high ticket items in your collection you may have to downsize eight pairs for one six for two
whatever it may be but at the end of the day you can get that desired sneaker that you really want
without having to spend that crazy price tag on it because you've already spent the money in the past
and you're kind of just consolidating making it all work for you in the future so i asked him what
was his cash offer and he told me that he wanted somewhere around twenty five hundred dollars and
i said okay i'll put some shoes together and we'll see what we can make shake so i sent him a list of
all the sneakers that i had right here with the total resale values next to it which then kind of
brought the price of 2200 somewhere around there give or take depending on the seller so i said you
know what i'll throw another 300 on top and that will give you your total of twenty five hundred
dollars in value that you're looking for so in my eyes i'm spending now fifteen hundred and thirty
five dollars plus the additional three hundred that puts me at eighteen hundred and thirty five
dollars out of pocket money that i have spent over x amount of time and now he in his eyes is seeing
2 500 in the trade for him receiving for the shoe that he spent i don't know how much he spent on it
but whatever he got it for that's the win that he wants and then we're both going to be happy
campers so this now brings us into the next step of the trade and that is going to be meeting up
guaranteeing that the shoe is authentic making sure the trade is smooth doing it in a public
safe place and then going on about our way this is another thing that i really want you guys to
take note with as well because i want to make sure that you have safe practices and you're not
meeting up somewhere late night with no cameras no lighting different things like that because
easily bad things could happen and i want to make sure that you guys are all safe when you're making
sneaker trades or other transactions when it comes to high ticket items or even if it was 50 bucks i
don't even care i just want you to do it safely so in today's video we're going to be using legit app
to authenticate our sneakers once we get to the meetup point i will explain the entire process
and how to use the app and i'll show you guys live while we make this all happen because we
want to make sure that our shoes are legit and i can definitely trust in this app and if you
haven't already make sure you use the code dna show when you sign up for the app and that will
get you one free legit check now let's go ahead and pack these shoes up and go make these deals
so we're just now getting to the mall and the store is on the second story so we're gonna have
to take the shoes upstairs but we're going to a store called cultural blends so uh let's go
ahead and get these shoes out of the car and try to get them upstairs i got eight pairs of shoes
and two hands i've done this before i'll do it again now i hope that the store is over here
because if it's on the other side of the mall i'm gonna be hot we gotta go back down the bottom
looks like look at that they close this other store
there we go i can't say we're on the home stretch yet that's not the entrance
we'll take it though oh let me readjust pants won't fall down geez
all right let's go this is many years of practice balance strength conditioning
all of it now we gotta find the store i don't know where it's at all right you guys we figured
out where the store is at let's pick up the shoes and let's go get to the store ah you see
that squat that's nice gotta have the good hip and ankle and knee mobility you have helped me
hey don't try this at home i could do
i'll more you guys in another video so
okay so we went over the eight shoes already he knows the list as well
i'm gonna let him check everything out i'm gonna check everything out obviously he has more to look
at i'm gonna show you guys the legit check process as well and then we'll get into it
what's up bro i got you this for you okay dope oh yeah appreciate it
see you know my size gotta mention with the umc ones yeah okay thank you so we'll start with him
first make sure he checks out everything all the sizes and everything is correct that i said before
everything is in brand new condition everything matches out to what we had on the list originally
one thing that a lot of people love about trading or doing deals with shoes is having dead stock
shoes you can do it with used shoes it's better if they have a better value to the sneaker
but it's a lot easier to do a transaction when the shoes are all dead stock because it's more
transparent and it's just easier to make the deal go faster so everything looks good over
there and then i'll show you guys the whole process of checking it on the app and how
everybody go along that way as well so let's go ahead and get into it you're going to hit start
select sneakers jordan's jordan 5 because that's a retro five then it has all the photo requirements
that you have here so it says the right foot outside exterior i'm gonna take a shot like this
another shot back side now we gotta do the insoles and the outsoles
also it's a dope hit on the shoe right here cork
take a vibes of the stitching right here on the inside of the foot
inside label right here
i'm gonna do 30 minutes because we got to make it quick um yup
okay so now it is doing its thing we wait for a second and see what happens
so as i was checking out the shoe and getting it verified i didn't realize that this pair was
actually a b grade so they still got verified through the legit app and as you can see right
here they came through 100 authentic that was nothing really to worry about it was
just more of the fact that it was a b grade and not actually you know like the real deal you know
what i'm saying i'm not saying the shoe is fake but all i'm saying is i really wanted to have
the actual friends and family not a b grade version and now i understood why the shoe didn't
come with an original box because typically b grades sometimes don't come with og boxes
so now it's all making sense and i'm just trying to kind of figure it out and talk with him
because we had a conversation about it previously and i never knew that there were b grades so he
told me that he said that he did but we went back to the messages but i showed him there
was no communication of this shoe being a b grade so i had to kind of readjust my offer we talked
about what we had here what i was willing to take i said i'm going to need to not involve any cash
and i probably want to have one shoe back and kind of just come to an agreement that we would both
be happy with but i knew for a fact there was no way that i was going to give him the same amount
of shoes plus cash for that deal because i found out that she was to be great but at the end of the
day we were able to come up with a final deal on the numbers and the trade and everything like that
which i'll explain to you guys in a second there was no hard feelings i wasn't mad or anything
like that i just wanted to make sure that we were both on the same page and we had an understanding
i wasn't getting a product that i thought was something else and then i found out it
was something when i got home so again always just make sure you're checking out and uh on the
same page both of you guys are very transparent that way it makes it very easy to make the deal
there's no hard feelings or anything like that and uh from there we were able to make the thing
happen so this is what we got i'm hungry i'm hot i'm bothered and not all the right ways
but let's get to the house i'll explain everything we'll break it down we'll look at the shoe
it's verified authentic we did all that with legit app so you got nothing to worry about i'll see you
guys when we get to the house okay so we are back and the first thing that i have to say is shout
out to legit app because i'm telling you right now they came in the clutch authenticating my sneakers
and again if you haven't already make sure you use the code dna show and that'll get you a free
legit check once you sign up and get started on their app now let's go ahead and break down the
numbers because i know the original numbers that we talked about at the beginning of the video have
slightly changed to the end of the video and then i'll let you guys determine if i got a good deal
on the shoe or not so as you guys remember with the shoes that i spent money on plus the 300 in
cash i was coming out of pocket 1835 for a trade for a sneaker that would be potentially worth
somewhere around twenty five hundred dollars but as you guys saw in the video this pair right here
in particular was a b grade so i ended up taking the 300 cash that i was originally gonna give him
and i kept that for myself and i also kept the pair of flint sevens those i got for 190 dollars
so 300 plus 190 that gives you roughly 409 well i guess exactly 490 dollars and that's roughly 500
off of the original value that we decided to do on the deal so after everything is said and done
my total out-of-pocket cost for this sneaker was 1345 now we cannot forget to mention the
added value that we had on the previous pairs in the trade we deducted the flint sevens which
was a ten dollar profit so now we have 725 dollars as well added to this cost from the
original 1345 which gives me now a 2070 dollar hypothetical cost for this sneaker that i spent
based on the additional value of the sneakers that i traded now there's two different ways
to split this either you can say i spent 1345 on this shoe or you can say i spent 2070 on this shoe
in my mind i say i spent 13.45 because i'm willing to make trades but i want to value it at
over 2 000 if say one day i ever decided to sell the sneaker or whatever maybe in another trade
you name it which brings my question to you how would you value this situation would you go with
the 1345 or the 2070 drop a comment down below in the comment section i just want to understand your
mindset behind this as well so again at the end of the day i am definitely a happy camper this
is a great addition to the collection be grade or not and honestly with it not having the box
it's completely fine because this is definitely a sneaker that would go into a case like this so
i'm fine because it would be on display anyways i'm looking forward to putting these probably in
my top 10 pickups for this year so with all that being said don't forget to follow legit app on
instagram i have them tagged for you down below in the description and make sure you use the code
dna show that'll get you a free legit check as soon as you sign up with the app arch you guys
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