Put this into perspective. The typical buyer of this z dude, buy a random pair. Never seen the actual in hand. Compares to release photos n it looks good. Does the uv light. Then goes oh wow I got a deal. I had to wait forever but I fully trust him
Then you have Joe Schmoe buying a tier fakes that comes out from the same former contracted factory. Uv light doesn’t show any guideline marking. And all details to material are down to slight factory deviation and goat passes it.
Unless you have the actual pair In hand. 99% of people won’t be able to tell the difference. Sometime fakes have stricter tolerance when it comes to imperfections.
As a bean counter. I don’t see how someone is in the business of offering code n selling legitimate pairs below retail Nike invoice cost. Maybe sourcing from fallen ups trucks?
Agree with you there, but that observation is not enough to give a
definitive-absolute-certain conclusion that Zadeh is 100% rep/fake. Conversely, just because the casual buyer doesn't know the difference also
is not conclusive that Zadeh is 100% authentic.
Because of this uncertainty, buyers are responsible for own due diligence when it comes to buying on secondary markets and for
EVERY release.
TexasDillo
is able to do that; he has both retail and Zadeh CG XI to which he can't find any
glaring differences on the shoe or box. (For the sake of keeping this discussion from going off tangent, assume if you don't get a W on SNKRS, you can phone a friend that did catch a W and compare a Zadeh pair with their pair).
Zadeh's Business Model:
If you look at each release in a vacuum and isolate the debits and credits based on one release, then yeah it does not make sense for Zadeh to be profitable by selling at msrp or less. Therefore he must be selling fakes, right?
Wrong. We don't know his dealings for how he runs his sneaker business, let alone any of his businesses or how they're even related for that matter. He could be doing a number of things with preorder money, but it doesn't matter however unprofitable or profitable his sneaker business is; his business being profitable or not is not evidence to the actual shoe itself is fake. Yes people are bitter about his business to which he owes people one of three things; a shoe, or store credit, or money back - all of which he seems to make good on for however long it takes.
We're not supposed to be judging the authenticity of a sneaker by how he runs his business;
we're supposed to be judging the authenticity of a sneaker by actually examining his pairs vs authentic as
TexasDillo
has done here with the CG XI. It is unimportant on how he gets his supply, which is the same reason why StockX, GOAT etc don't care where you and I get our sneakers to sell on their platforms.
That being said, I'd take someone's word and pictures as proof that his shoes are legit and then roll the dice. I'd still authenticate the sneaker myself when it comes in though.
it is sketchy he doesn’t cut off orders after a certain #, he should have an idea what he can fulfill. People buying bulk of limited collabs are greedy idiots….
whenever resellers get screwed over.
