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how's it going niketalk fam. so today i picked up a pair of white cement iv's from jbkickz' ebay page, who supposedly have a good rep within the sneaker community. however, my pickup today says otherwise. take a look, and tbh they probably are fakes but i just wanted some confirmation.
compared these with my thunder iv's from soletronic (i think) on ebay.
you can tell immediately the box size is off (thunders on top, white cements on bottom). also, the jumpman on the jbkickz box has a SLIGHTLY darker shade of red.
the difference in height is also noticeable. the smaller ones is the jbkickz box. the lid was on the other way by accident btw.
diff 'specs' on the boxes. left jbkickz, right soletronic
one thing i use myself to legit check my own shoes (via the box) is to look for a stamp on the inside of the lid, which should always be there without fail on the authentic kicks. you can see the stamp, which is from the soletronic pair, albeit faintly. the jkkickz pair has no stamp inside whatsoever (neither do my 2011 concords from mentalkicks :/)
jbkickz pair. the 'garbage bag' sheet has some parts of it glued to the INSIDE of the box lid fold. not only is the box in general poorly glued and put together, the 'garbage bag' sheet is see through...
... whereas my soletronic pair is not. the box is put together nicely too.
just some closeups of the white cements. i don't think i was able to capture it, but i inspected them again after taking pics and there are numerous imperfections. paint on the air bubble, bits of an 'off white' colour on the midsole, sloppy painting on the outsole. also, you can see on the last pic the difference in the inner lining... the left shoe is significantly slimmer than the right shoe.
LASTLY, the hangtag is pretty easily bendable. i don't think it's supposed to be like that.
compared these with my thunder iv's from soletronic (i think) on ebay.
you can tell immediately the box size is off (thunders on top, white cements on bottom). also, the jumpman on the jbkickz box has a SLIGHTLY darker shade of red.
the difference in height is also noticeable. the smaller ones is the jbkickz box. the lid was on the other way by accident btw.
diff 'specs' on the boxes. left jbkickz, right soletronic
one thing i use myself to legit check my own shoes (via the box) is to look for a stamp on the inside of the lid, which should always be there without fail on the authentic kicks. you can see the stamp, which is from the soletronic pair, albeit faintly. the jkkickz pair has no stamp inside whatsoever (neither do my 2011 concords from mentalkicks :/)
jbkickz pair. the 'garbage bag' sheet has some parts of it glued to the INSIDE of the box lid fold. not only is the box in general poorly glued and put together, the 'garbage bag' sheet is see through...
... whereas my soletronic pair is not. the box is put together nicely too.
just some closeups of the white cements. i don't think i was able to capture it, but i inspected them again after taking pics and there are numerous imperfections. paint on the air bubble, bits of an 'off white' colour on the midsole, sloppy painting on the outsole. also, you can see on the last pic the difference in the inner lining... the left shoe is significantly slimmer than the right shoe.
LASTLY, the hangtag is pretty easily bendable. i don't think it's supposed to be like that.
