i made a big mistake when i bought this shoe and honestly
i wasn't even thinking so in today's video i'm gonna tell you how i messed up
and hopefully you can prevent yourself from doing the same thing i did
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like button because that helps the algorithm owe so much so i know a lot of people make
mistakes buying shoes over the years and this is a mistake that i have never personally made before
but with the new era of buying sneakers online and how things are working i just simply messed
up and i wasn't paying attention three of the most common things that you hear when people talk about
making mistakes purchasing sneakers are typically what they get scammed buying a fake pair of shoes
or they pay way too much for a pair of shoes and they go down in value and they were like damn
i paid over price i should have never done that or they even get themselves in a situation where
the shoe is at a great deal and they didn't realize that it was going to go up in value
next thing you know months go by and they're like damn i wish i would have bought that shoe when i
had the chance to get it for the low price that it was so for me in this situation we're kind
of talking about pricing right i got this pair off of stockx so let's go ahead and look at the
receipt and see how much i spent on these my purchase price was 263 processing fee was 7.89
and shipping was 13.95 and the total price came out to be 284.84 for a size 13 japanco
air jordan 1. now we know retail for this sneaker was 170 so that means basically i
spent a little over hundred and ten dollars for this sneaker right here above the retail value
but in my mindset i thought hey this shoe is gonna go up in value it could potentially be worth four
or five hundred dollars give it some time so even if i spend close to three hundred dollars now if i
waited longer down the road i'm probably gonna end up spending more money on it so i might as well
just pull the trigger because i really want this shoe so this shoe in particular released a couple
months ago on august 7 2020 so i waited and waited i waited i said hey i'll give it a month i'll see
if i can find this shoe in the local market or get a good price on a pair that i want but a lot
of people are asking close to 300 bucks and i was like huh maybe i'll just put a bid in on stockx
maybe if the price goes down somebody will accept it and i'll get them for around 260 plus fees and
everything that's like 280 bucks all right cool i'm willing to pay that price so a month after the
release i was finally able to get my pair for that price that i just told you guys about so typically
a couple months after the hype dies down from a sneaker release the price tends to go down as well
so i put a bid in at 260 bucks saying okay i think the price will go down you know somebody
will eventually bite on it and then they did after the offer was accepted typically it could
take one to two weeks for the shoe to finally get to you after the verification process and
everything that goes on with stockx the seller's shipping and them them shipping back to you
all those different things so another couple weeks goes by and i finally get the shoe in hand
i'm very very happy and now the kind of resale value is around that price where i just purchased
it at again i plan to hold these for a very long time and keep them on my collection i really look
forward to rocking these and if i end up getting a second pair i wouldn't be mad but i want to make
sure that i get that second pair for a really good price so if you look at the current price today
of this shoe it's kind of roughly around 240 bucks so that's 23 under what i originally put my bid in
a month ago that 20 dollars honestly for the time doesn't really matter to me because i'm
not really tripping like oh you lost 20 bucks type thing because again long play i think these
are gonna be worth a lot of money if you give it a year or two these are gonna be hitting for
a good amount of money so now that people ask me where did you actually mess up what's the
problem i don't get it this is the problem i'm gonna tell you exactly how i messed this up so
i just got another package in the mail and let me show you guys exactly what i'm talking about
this right here is the air jordan one japanco again this pair right here is a size 12 and a
half i forgot that i put a bit in on a size 13 and a size 12 and a half i won the bid on the 13
got my pair in the mail and completely forgot that the bid stay up for 30 or 60 days or whatever it
may be and i had my bid still alive and active for a size 12 and a half this was very undervalued at
the time because they wanted even more for size 12 and a half because they're harder to find than
they are 13. so a week and a half ago i had a notification on my phone and it said that i had
just got the air jordan 1 in a size 12 and a half i was so confused and then it popped in my head
bruh i forgot to delete my offer so now i have two pairs of the air jordan one japanco and a size 13
and a 12 and a half initially i already wanted to double up but i wasn't sure if i wanted to spend
the full resale price on both pairs and hoping that maybe i could find that second pair used
or for a lower price down the line and i actually ended up spending the same exact amount of money
for both pairs of shoes oh no i take that back these were three dollars cheaper so i spent 260
bucks on the second pair and i was able to save three dollars in total to 281.75 so the reason
why i made this video is i want to show you guys yes you can find good deals or you can get the
sneaker that you want at the price that you want to get it but make sure when you put your offers
in on stockx or gold or anything like that be sure to take those offers down after you win that first
bid for the size that you want because then you could potentially get stuck with buying multiple
pairs of shoes and if that's something that you cannot afford or you just simply didn't want to
do it you're gonna be like damn bro what do i do now because if you sell this shoe on stockx for
the price that you got it for technically you're gonna lose money because you're gonna have to pay
fees and everything like that and then you're gonna be getting back 220 something 237 dollars
for the original 280 that you spent for the shoot after shipping after fees and all that stuff
so you get what i'm saying right there i don't want people to make that same mistake
me personally i'm happy that i have both of these and i don't have to worry about it down the road
did i want to spend this exact price for these two shoes no but at the same time i'm glad that
i got my second pair now i can easily throw a pair of my rotation start rocking them keep the
other pair on ice i'm assuming that they're gonna go up in value and if you have the strategy of
one to rock and one to stock this is the perfect situation for that because typically we know when
you stock a pair of shoes for a year two years three years down the line it will double or even
triple sometimes quadruple in price and you will make all that money back if you just simply hold
on to a pair of shoes so for a situation like this that's what i'm gonna do i'm a rocket pair and i'm
a stock repair drop a comment if you have made the same mistake i did either buying doubles or
putting an offer in forgetting about it it comes through and you're like bro i didn't even i forgot
i even wanted though that type of situation i get it i've heard it happen to a lot of people
and it's happening to me now with these new apps with stockx and go and all these different things
it's just different it's a whole new marketplace with buying and selling and all these different
things i'm used to just hitting up a homie like hey i need these da da da woof next thing
you know i got a pair coming in the mail or i'm picking them up locally and now it's just a whole
different world i wanted to try out the whole buy them off of stockx thing i purchased shoes
off of stockx before i'm not saying it burned me or anything like that but you got to make sure
that you're always aware of these situations so it doesn't happen to you so i hope this video was
helpful i hope this made a little bit of sense and uh let me just pull my two pairs up hello
you know i still got my two pairs uh and this is definitely going in my top 10 pickups of 2020 bruh
honestly i really love this shoe if you guys want to see a full review or anything like that let me
know in the comment section i'll give you guys a review i know it's a little bit late but i really
really love this shoe so that's my time my name is dj i gots to go i'm gone oh yeah don't forget
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