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BITD I don't even remember shoes selling out. Good to get them early from release, but you could ALWAYS get them from somewhere...London, Manchester, Leeds...wherever...for retail. I don't really remember not being able to get anything. Maybe some of the first rifts were my first memory of that, but not every half decent shoe.
You know probably more than anyone why they don't 'just keep quiet..etc' :) with hype the stuff just sells itself instantly and those who miss out's hunger builds for the next one with resellers fuelling it all further. Kanye isn't giving people a great shoe he's giving anyone who can get one at retail £500.
Did you see that IG post from Erik @sns on the last yeezy release? 5,000,000 unique IP addresses were trying for them, just from sns. Reckoned they we're stopping 40,000 bots too? Don't even know how they know. Thought what he said was pretty decent as most independents and fake influencers just suck up for free pairs.