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Yeah, it's evolved from that to groups of placeholders waiting in line & buying everything, to groups of undesirables taking over the line & buying everything to bots swarming the online stores on the second of release & buying everything, it's mental - I refuse point blank to entertain any of it. Primarily because i'm cheap, but also fuck those guys - what's the point if they're not going to be worn? People with garages full of £20k worth of shoes that'll never be worn, why bother - get a classic car ffs...
Years ago I has a couple of pairs of Nike LD1000 & Waffles when they first started doing the worn-in looking reissues - wore them in pubs & clubs until they literally fell off, seen some similar pop up ebay or somewhere recently & they were a fortune, fuck that - why bother sitting on a pair of unworn £50 trainers for 15 years hoping to make a couple of hundred quid at the end of it?