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You mean all the busters selling these on SX right now to make a whole $20-$30. So lame.
AIR JORDAN 12 Cherry Holiday 2023 - Release October 28, 2023 - Good Luck!!!
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Oh you too can do it now. I got an email yesterday saying new releases get 5 days. So buy and ship to yourself, get that sale locked in within minutes of buying.
I hope everyone involved with this industry dies a horrible death.
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NGL… Haven’t been excited on a release in quiet some time… so glad I got em 
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Struck out. But I ain’t even trippin haha
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not gonna stress. pretty confident I can find a size 9 on release day
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i got you just say the word!!!!
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ill take this pair and your release day pair
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January 97’. These and Obsidians came out same day. They sold pretty well in Los Angeles, though I didn’t have any issues securing my pair.
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Well then these definitely sat for months in some places back then cause I definitely got these in the spring of 97, not January.
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Killing me
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lmk how banana shape they look when they arrive. lot of ya ateeee
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I mean, it works both ways. If an area gets flooded with them like Chicago would have at the time, then yeah, I'm sure pairs were bound to sit. Cincinnati has always been a heavy Jordan area. Rarely ever got shorted on allocations.
Taxis were November, and I feel like these and the French Blues were around February. Only reason that sticks out is that I usually get a pair of J's for my birthday in February and that year's were the French Blues. First time in forever they dropped 2 colors in 1 day. I remember grabbing these as well, thinking "eh, I'd rather have them and then return them, than decide I want them next week and not be able to find them."
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It's just a different time altogether. These never sold out up front like they would today because they were spread out and stocked to the brim at sports retailers that don't even exist today. Yeah in some areas they did, but there was no internet. Stores would get stock that was supposed to last months for some. So to compare a "sell out" in 1997 vs a "sell out" today is apples and oranges. It doesn't mean anything in the context of this shoe today.
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straight to foot next friday 
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don't know how well the OG's sold around the country, but I found a bunch of 12's for 49.99 at a Tanger outlet in NY back in the day. they had these, the flu games, and playoffs. only bought the playoffs.
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There was ONE Jordan that sold out instantly back then pretty much everywhere, and that was the black/red 11. EVERYONE wanted these. Like, everyone AND their momma. I had to go to at least 4 different stores to get a pair on my size on release day. People went absolutely bonkers over them. I never had to do that with any other release back then. Not even the Concords. I remember being in shock about it cause that never happened before.
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Oh I remember. My parents told me I wasn't spending that kind of money on patent leather basketball shoes. I remember going to the mall and they had the display pair still sitting after they'd sold out. 12 year old me wasn't winning that battle, even with my own $$$
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Playoff 12s were hard to get too
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Which came out first Playoffs or Flu games? I do remember the playoffs being somewhat more popular.
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Same thing happened to me. Last store in the mall I hit up was Finish Line and I got lucky because the manager had a 12 aside for me just in case I stopped in. Up to that point, as long as you were there in the first few hours of the mall opening, you were good.
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Yea that release was like a foreshadow of what was to come just a few years later.
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Black / Red’s first…Late spring, early summer…
Playoffs were mid - late summer…I remember a bunch of kids rocked for back to school that year…
As far as sitting goes, Concord 11’s we’re the first pair of sneakers I ever experienced selling out here in Vegas…Pretty much everything after those was fairly attainable after release…I feel like the next time I had to actively search out a shoe was when the Playoff 13’s, and Black / Red 13’s hit…
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Had SNKRS open when the 10:45 notification went out, then completely forgot about the drop because of work. Glad most hit. Hoping to cop as this is the 2nd to last cop before I retire.
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I remember going to the mall 1 hr before they closed with my pops to return some burgundy timbs he bought me that were too big. They had 1 size left in my size and I got em. But the cool greys were the wildest release I ever seen here. Dudes were getting shot/jumped/robbed. Moms tried to stop me from wearing that Monday to school. Had to put em in my backpack to get em out the house.
