Quick LC on 2011 Concord

spizike231 · Feb 24, 2012

A few issues I've found are:

The left shoe jumpman is literally connected with the back ankle padding.
The leather on the upper in the first picture looks off / bad quality.
The bottom Jumpman on both shoes looks to be fatter than my RD pairs.
Also the patent leather cut has ridges on it like it was cut w/ scissors, where my RD pairs are clean cut with no ridges at all.

They could be early release / B grade or fakes.. But for $300 would this be a good pick up?

Thanks for any help.

aphexacid · Feb 24, 2012

I saw those earlier. They're legit. There are so many different quality issues with this release, you can't even name them all.

That jumpman too close to the heel tab is very common, my friends pair we got from niketown is almost exactly like that.

If those are B grades, the 95% of these need to be B grades as well

spizike231 · Feb 24, 2012

Originally Posted by aphexacid

I saw those earlier. They're legit. There are so many different quality issues with this release, you can't even name them all.

That jumpman too close to the heel tab is very common, my friends pair we got from niketown is almost exactly like that.

If those are B grades, the 95% of these need to be B grades as well

I wouldn't say 95%, maybe 25-30% of the pairs released to the public have huge flaws like the jumpman position but that PL cut is rigid and looks to be cut by scissors or something, and the jumpman on the sole is too fat.

Got both of my release pairs, and neither of them have a jumpman as big as that. Also the PL isn't cut like that.

There's a very slim chance that these are official RD pairs IMO

aphexacid · Feb 24, 2012

You should go check out the concord thread. The same crap people were crying about with the "slightly" early pairs, is the same crap people that bought on RD are crying about.

Ask IJAPINO. He posted a picture of 4 pairs, 1 was an early release. No one could tell the difference.

The question here is not if this is a store bought release day pair. The question is, are they fake. And the answer is they are legit.

The fat jumpman on the outsole is because the outsole itself makes it look distorted.

the only thing that seems to have been corrected from the early pairs is the "JOQDAN" lol

*edit*

And when i say 95%, i mean something. unusually thin patent on one or both shoes. too much glue. etc etc. not just stuff like upside down patches.

My pair has 2 very annoying flaws, and i stood in line for 8 hours...one shoe has a little spot on the icey outsole thats yellow. And also on the same shoe, on the right side, they didnt cut the phylon perfectlt. you can see where it should have been trimmed. I can fix it with an exacto though.

spizike231 · Feb 24, 2012

I feel you ^

I just don't like the thought of early release / b grades unless they don't have any differences.. and I wouldn't pay 300 for a pair with flaws like this.