What's your greatest steal of all time?

wj4 said:
Wow. At that many pairs how much profit did you net?

Can't say for sure... I was pretty bad with managing money then. It was in & out of my hands pretty fast. But if I had to make a guess Id say I got like 20-25 pairs of FREE shoes (after reselling the rest), and probably a couple thousand dollars at most.
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Space Jams at St. Jude's church... no matter how expensive they are, they are not allowed to sell over $20.

Also, my girl bought an LV clutch worth $1000 for $20.
 
A lot of mine

Midnight 6s for 140
Og air money's for 80
Brown pack high sbs for 150
Homeguns for 150
 
Black/red 1s for $120.

We talking trades as well?

GMP pack for cool grey IVs, 2002 charcoal VIIs and $350 cash
 
Smashed this chick in the back of my old Volvo in high school.

All I had to do was skip school and take her to McDonalds or breakfast.


******* love McDonalds breakfast....



She swallowed da kids too. All it cost me was $3 and some gas





And I came up on some Bred 1's for $200 a couple years ago before the whole Bred 1 hype started.
Traded some flue game XII's for some black/varsity red VI's before the black/red 6 hype started.

Now both of those shoes fetch too high of a price for me to even consider paying for.



But yeah, ******* love McDonalds breakfast :smokin
 
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I've given out some in the past.

Sold:
Blue/black foam pros for $100
Red/black foam pros for $100
01 black/cement iii's for $90
Black foam pros for $80
OG silver Duncan foam maxes for $120
Carolina foam pros for $80
Black/chrome viii's for $100
01 true blue iii's for $100
Cardinal vii first retro for $100
Aqua viii's for $140
Spacejams and carolina lows $100 a piece
Pretty much every colorway of xii from 04 $100 or less


Majority of this happened between 03'-06'. SB's were king during that time, Jordan's were easy to attain and foams were a breeze, I got all foams listed on sale. None of this stuff was ds or nds. Not beat but definitely 15+ wears on my end.
 
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PRIME said:
Smashed this chick in the back of my old Volvo in high school.

All I had to do was skip school and take her to McDonalds or breakfast.


******* love McDonalds breakfast....



She swallowed da kids too. All it cost me was $3 and some gas





And I came up on some Bred 1's for $200 a couple years ago before the whole Bred 1 hype started.
Traded some flue game XII's for some black/varsity red VI's before the black/red 6 hype started.

Now both of those shoes fetch too high of a price for me to even consider paying for.



But yeah, ******* love McDonalds breakfast :smokin
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:smh: Seems like the kind of chick that eats chips at the grocery store.
 
Nothing great. Got a pair of the White/Light Blue XIIs and some White/Blue/Gold XIX SEs for $25 each after employee discount.
 
Sent a NT or ISSER a 60$ money order wen I was like 14, for low top VIs baby blue/white..... Shout out too dat bol
 
Oh sneaker wise lots ...

During the sb craze I traded mexican blanket p rods for black laser 4s straight up.
 
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got some barely used Paris Dunks for $27 in 2010

OG IV's back in 2005 for $30

Got some Ray XIII's for $35 a few months back
 
All DS

Oly 7's for $140

Shadow 1's for $100

Jordan Cool Grey XI for free 3 months before release (won a contest, sold em for $325 :smh: young and money hungry)
 
Hashus Clay said:
Stumbled upon a hidden sports authority a few years back that had almost every retro from 2005-2009. Mind you all these shoes were selling out at the local malls... People just didn't know about it really, and the people who did weren't buying retros.

Copped so many Jordan's there on sale it wasn't even funny. The shoes were in their boxes sitting on clearance racks in the back.
I started buying em all up a few pairs at a time & flipping em. Cleaned out the racks, and asked so many questions over a months time about inventory and sizes, that they escorted me into the room where they kept the shoes so I can pick exactly what I wanted off the shelves every time I came in.

Made so much flipping shoes over a few months time, and acquired a lot of pairs for free. The best part about it, was these shoes had been sitting so I never payed more than $99.99 for any pair, when most actually costed me 79.99. Just to name a few....

Metallic, fire red, green bean, stealth blue AJ5
Cardinal, citrus, chambray AJ7
ALL the AJ14s that came out back then, and I mean ALL of them.
ALL AJ3's (no LS pairs, just GR)

All in all, I bought at least 75 - 100 pairs. Flipped all multiples, and kept 1 of everything that was in my size, except for metallic 5 which I kept 2. It was my go-to spot for years, then they all of a sudden stop receiving Retros. It was a nice come up tho.
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This is an awesome story. I'm surprised the Sports Authority employees weren't making the same move you did and buying out the entire rack.

You were livin' the dream for a few years, this sounds like a sneaker wonderland.
 
dtb00201 said:
01 black cements for $30 at a thrift store 3 or 4 years ago
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I must be going to the wrong type of thrift stores
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Space Jams for $250 off of NT.
I felt it was kinda' high but looking back it was a steal.
Also, Nubuck 12's, I believe they were 150, & went on sale plus coupon & free shipping.
Two of my best purchases.
When they come back I'll buy 2x of each.
I'm a sucker for UNC color ways as far as those 12's go.
 
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