Many of them do for photos and stage shows. 9 times out of 10 they wear the shit once or twice. People will think it's real because of who they are and they are percieved to have money. They end up giving it to one of their guys on the team to keep them looking rich. Trust not many are wearing real shoes for stage shows especially if they have a sneaker connect ordering them and getting it to their stylist. Trust me I've seen it with my own two 👀
@@johntitor1054 You're not earning them you're getting ripped off by resellers by paying hundreds or thousands for shoes that retail for a 2-3 hundred.
@@johntitor1054 exactly. Some shit is just for the flex. You can earn something and only real people respect it. However, how many real people are the compared to all this fake shit out here. In a photo it looks the same to them and all the mindless people who just hit a like button so that's all that matters.
You talking about buying fakes and people saying that they’re legit? Or even worse people sell fakes to others claiming it to be an authentic pair and selling them at the resale price
I have some fakes and not gonna lie it’s scary bc I compare them and some of them have better leather quality than authentic it’s ok to buy ua shoes not everyone has the money and no one wants to buy resell price ppl just wanna be in fashion and it’s all good I respect fashion but just don’t resell or claim there real I have some real off white air forces but a pair of ua 97spoons and I let ppl know they ua but ya I feel
@Doug Castillo There's some truth in that: it's not often the case but it does happen. When it does, its usually because a replica factory wants to impress a major buyer or is just starting up operations, so they put in the extra effort, whereas the retail pair may be QC'd by someone who is being judged more on yield rate than "acceptable" quality. It's actually a lot more common in the apparel sector - you have people like me go in and help companies cut costs, but sooner or later there's a risk things go too far and you tip over from cutting costs into cutting corners... :-(
Hiratio Masterson damn yeah I was think that’s so crazy no way it’s that common when people tell about better quality reps but I definitely could see how appearel would be more common
Bro but how awkward would that be!!!!!! Jks I guess as long as you’re honest that’s important, but all these fakes being a fraction of the price of resale and based on how good they look that might be a viable strategy 🤔
@@JoshuaDaniher it really is... I'd rather pay ~retail price to a chinese hustler than 500% of retail to a spoilt 17yo who bot bought 12 pairs with dad's debit card. Because the quality of these high tier batches is insane
@@ThePowerPlayzMC who CARES? Once you become an adult, you stop giving a shit about other people opinion. Only in elementary school and high school is there any sort of social pressure to keep up with the jones.
I have done some work in the industry (this isn't my real name, ha!) and would like to give you a bit of insight. What often happens is that counterfeits/replicas/fakes start off life as factory samples: Nike, adidas, Puma etc...they do not make their own shoes in their own factories (this is slowly changing for some very high tech shoes though). They simply subcontract out manufacture to independently run factories in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia etc. What happens is they send design specs to a number of factories and ask them to make sample pairs, to check for quality etc. After some banter on pricing, they may select one, sometimes two factories to do a production run. The other factories that didn't get the order are supposed to destroy all existing samples and the tooling...most reputable ones do...But on occasion, some staff members take the blueprints and manufacturing process documentation, sometimes tooling and sell them to less reputable places. That is how the quality replicas often start life. There is a huge amount of shoemaking expertise in Asia and many of the Nike Air limited releases are based off well understood technology and materials - the Nike Air Force design has been around for over 30 years, thus it is easy for many to make excellent quality replicas. It is harder to properly copy higher technology designs like the adidas ultraboost, with the knit material uppers, Continental rubber outsole and of course the boost material, but this is changing rapidly. Oh, and sometimes 'replicas' are made by the authorised factories, but simply do not pass QC checks...and sometimes, what they do is when they get an order for maybe 25,000 pairs, they make 30,000 instead. 25,000 get sent through authorised supply chain channels...and the other 5,000 leave the factory via guys on motorbikes, private trucks etc. It's an interesting industry indeed...
Wow thanks for your insight! I’m sure plenty of people would like to see this. It is very interesting and I’m interested to see how it changes in the future as it seems some of these fakes for shoes like Jordan 1s ect are reasonably easy to replicate and the fakes just get better and better. Thank you for sharing your insight and welcome to the channel! 😄
@@JoshuaDaniherHappy to be here and see how people respond to replicas...and especially when they find out the definition is not so easy as to what one is. Some replicas indeed are pretty awful, the type of stuff you would have gotten in the 1990s: the basic silhouette is there but the design details are all over the place. But some of the best ones...even someone who actually makes authorised pairs would struggle to tell the difference: materials and tooling are identical or within QC tolerance. The real problem seems to be when people get these high quality replicas and sell them on StockX as the real deal - and even the StockX experts can be fooled. No easy answers to that one...
Yeah I think the biggest problem in the world of fakes is the sale of them disguised as authentic. I’m not 100% on what StockX or goat do to legit check pairs but if they’re just looking for cosmetic differences than I think they will eventually run into trouble when sneaker reps become too close to tell. Idk if sneaker compiles will start personally adding authentication barcodes or tags to each shoe after they come back from Asia but otherwise I don’t see a genuine way to legit check. Also when legit pairs may still have the odd defect
@@JoshuaDaniher There's work being done on barcodes as well as blockchain technologies to help with authentication, but it's a never ending game: one side acts, the other reacts, then the other reacts to that etc etc ad nauseum. When you have retail pairs going for $200-300 for a production run of ~800-5,000, but the demand for the sneakers is tens of thousands (or as with the ultraboost initially, where adidas massively underestimated the demand for the line in 2015 and because the materials and production techniques were so different to the norm, it was very hard to get a pair for the first 2 years and resale prices were also pretty nutty), then StockX prices run into the high hundreds and in a few cases a few thousand...and suddenly these guys in China (who really don't make that much margin per sneaker) suddenly see the chance to rake in some solid cash with very little overall risk...the temptation is pretty clear. One of thing I should mention was that back in 2017, there was one new Quality Control manager at a major factory near Putian (where else?) who thought he would make an impression by setting ridiculously high standards for a batch of AF1s: one tiny stitch not perfectly symmetrical and even, the entire shoe was chucked: the yield rate (percentage accepted as defect free) dropped to below 15%. Almost 600 pairs went into a reject pile before he got a talking to. But those shoes were not accepted back as OK...and they weren't junked. Have heard a few stories about what happened, but the most credible one was that the QC guy got rid of them via unofficial channels and gave all the money back to the factory to keep his job. These sneakers are not fake, but they are "unauthorized": a handful may have defects that would normally not pass QC, but the majority are well within production tolerances. Another grey area...
That’s crazy man! Also crazy how they’re going to use block-chain for an actual physical item, like I’m aware how it can be used for digital authentication but not with an actual physical product. Appreciate your insight a heap, so with all you know do you advocate for fakes or are you against it? Like what side are you on and what is the biggest reason you feel that way? I mean I have a list of probably like 20+ sneakers I want that I’m waiting till I can afford when I’m working full time that might cost $30k+ if I were to collect them all but probably like less than $4k if I bought reps, is it even worth trusting the resale market if reps are floating around in that space now? I don’t want to pay $10k+ on ‘authentic’ sneakers from the resale market if someone can’t confidently say they’re 100% authentic as otherwise I might just be paying more for reps! Idk man what do you think for now and in the future as what will happen and what sneakerheads should do if they miss copping their latest sneakers for retail?
Thanks for both of your opinions, I agree they are probably produced in the exact same factory. You can’t say reps don’t use child labour unless you can confirm they use their own seperate factories yet I think they’re the same factories for everything and Nike doesn’t own them they’re just outsourced to have them produced.
@Ryan Loomis 2.0 yeah man i can agree with that, ive seen videos similar too that aswell. I mean im not much of an expert on the subject but I do know bulk engineering companies that outsource almost every single part they produce as long as it makes sense to have it shipped cost-wise. I wonder though if Nike does any quality control when it arrives in America or whichever country it is being sold? As I assume after each pair is produced it is just shipped to wherever it is going to be sold straight from the factory.
Shoutout to my aunt Linda, my homie Tony, my boy Will, my Supreme lords Mirror, Kingshark and TC. My budget boys 0832 and 3125, my Stone plug TopStoney for letting me drip down for half the price of retail, reps are the wave boys, say no retail. Same quality lesser price.
Joshua Daniher yeah bro, on R/FashionReps they are everywhere. Been buying retail all my life, once I found out about replicas, switched all the way and it is true what they say, you only pay because of the name
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Exactly why I made this video! Each pair will have slight discrepancies and the fakes now days are so good that these little errors are impossible to tell when compare to the real pair! Let me ask did you guess correctly all of the correct real vs fake questions?
@@JoshuaDaniher No, it's really hard to tell the real from fakes 100% of the time. The really good copies or fakes are made to almost 1:1 replicas of the authentic ones that you have to have several pairs of authentic to compare side by side with a replica pair. That's how good they have made the fake ones now. And I think most of the real good fakes are made from the same factories which produces the authentic ones so it's not hard for them to produce a close copy of the real ones.
That’s what I’m sayin too. Crazy because if I got a pair of “authentic” ones for 2 bands ppl gonna assume they are fake because not many folks got em AND they gonna notice the text is off. So in my opinion it doesn’t matter. If I want the shoes imma go to DHgate and drop 50 on em and be fresh. Why would I pay 2k just to say they are authentic? Just my opinion. The fakes are real to me. LOL
Guys don't trust him, geveroti is a total scam, these are not comments and fake likes. They never give you the shoes and doesn't give u a refund even if u have paid
If you buy high end reps it's pretty much impossible to tell a difference from a retail pair, I own 6 pairs of Jordan 1s, 2 replica pairs and 4 retail pairs and there's no difference in quality between them at all.
Bro 100% like morally it’s wrong to sell reps because you know it’s like stealing someone else’s idea or art and selling it as your own but quality wise they’re basically identical, and you’d hardly ever pay more than retail for the best quality reps. Also really they’re all made in the same place with the same materials. Unless Nike start manufacturing in America than it’s practically the same thing all coming out of Asia.
@@williamjenkins4061 np man there's a website called monicasneaker(dot)com that is pretty good quality and has a sale right now. Let me know if you need anything else.
What they really need to do is find a way to eliminate bots so that everyone has a chance of paying retail for shoes. That would solve everyones problem
Would be funny if u left these out sitting next together and had to run somewhere and come back to the crib not knowing which one is the fake and which is the real pair 😂😂
My guy 100%!!!! Once I unboxed them and brought out my legit pair I was like damn I better do something so I don’t end up mixing them up hahha so I have a little piece of tape on the sole of the fakes so I can tell which is which 😂
I personally love rocking replicas as I don’t have to worry about the value of the sneaker and can rock them with no worries plus no one will call you out when rocking them as no one can tell when they’re on feet
Imagine selling them on accident with one fake and one real😭then they tried to sell them to a buy sell trade store and they took hours to determine wtf is going on
I personally don't have reps, nor am I a diehard sneakerhead. But to keep it 100% with you, I could give 2 fucks whether you wear reps or not. If you don't have the money or just don't want to spend thousands on some sneakers, then I perfectly understand. If they make you happy, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. As long as you acknowledge that they are reps and don't claim them to something they are not, I see no problem. Do what makes you happy.
As I see it, a shoe is a shoe the only difference between those sneakers would be the factory they are produced in and their prices, they are basically overall the same design. Most people dont like replicas cause they are cheaper then the normal price and In my opinion of you want to flex just leave the price mark on your shoe to show how much you paid for it since that's really the only thing making the shoes different, of every shoe in the world costed 100$ there would be no such thing as real or replica cause people wouldn't care as they all costed the same, we would view them as only shoes but now that there is a 1000 dollar design, if you get ot for cheaper the shoe is automatically labeled replica or fake which dont make much sense, just leave the tag or take receipt with you when you spend that much money on a shoe so you can flex the price cause that's really all that you can flex as design comes cheap and expensive but shows as a shoe
It’s not a money thing I feel it’s more a community thing, I mean sure some people just want to flex, but when I wear authentic sneakers I know I’m a genuine contributor to the sneaker community and I’m more comfortable not feeling like I’ve faked it. Regardless I still see your perspective and that’s the great debate or reps. Appreciate your insight mate and thanks for stopping by the channel ✅🤝
Might as well grab a pair of reps of all your favorite sneakers, that way you can actually wear and enjoy them without worrying about every step you take
Here’s my thought if I get a chance to buy the “real authentic ones I will buy them” but if I miss out on them I’m not gonna pay no resell price (what the seller wants) that’s normally outrageous for no sneakers.
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I'm not into fakes but if I were to rock a pair I wouldn't go for a hype shoe since that brings too much attention/suspicion about the shoes being legit. I'd go for like a Yeezy 700 V2 Vanta Black or Jordan 1 Chicago
Bro Chicagos are pretty hype but I agree, especially for complicated sneakers like the off white ect where there is so much to get wrong regarding material and prints and colours but af1s and AJ1s are pre easy to rep as they’re just leather panels
@@JoshuaDaniher true AJ 1s in general. AF1s are pretty affordable unless you're going for a collab really. True Chicago 1s are hype but here in the UK Jordan's dont have as much hype compared to the US unless its a collab with Off White Supreme or whatever hyped up brand
Yeah I feel that. I could probably wear any fake retro AJ1 or Jordan in general and no one in Australia will care because not that many people are into sneaker culture to be able to tell and potential tiny off details from a rep. Considered wearing my fake pair from this video to the gym and see how many people notice, I doubt anyone would give a fuck
@@unknownbillionaire In commerce, a "third-party source" means a supplier who is not directly controlled by either the seller (first party) nor the customer/buyer (second party) in a business transaction.
I have taken 150 L’s on the SNKRS app in the last 5 or so years (with only two W’s). Shoes that I genuinely want to wear are sold out in seconds and aftermarket prices are double if not triple the price. I remember a time where it was all about wearing shoes but now it’s just a bunch of hypebeast’s and resellers causing high prices and in my opinion ruining the sneaker industry and culture. That said, if you buy a fake shoe just be honest.
Lmao! I hoped that would provide some real insight into how similar they are! Given my legit pair had been worn in a little that they didn’t look so super new next time I might have to test myself and see if I can get right hahha thanks for stopping by the channel and leaving a comment, I appreciate you 🔥
I dont think getting replicas are wrong, if they’re comfy and they look good, why not? You get the comfort of the high quality shoe but with a reasonable price!
Flüchtlinge willkommen do you live in the US? Impossible to get most exclusive shoes these days with bots and other shady tactics buying them all for retail.
My opinion : as I’ve seen the comments buying fakes isn’t wrong but saying they are real is wrong. And the reason I don’t buy replicas is because i just need to have the these pairs are real feeling. And most people too. So I think it’s not like that if a celebrity would start wearing fakes everyone would too.
97% of women you go out with don’t even know what brands you have on but of course your lady will learn from you as time goes on but trust outside of high school nobody is going to approach you saying they are fake so just make sure you don’t wear fakes when going to hyped up stores like roundtwo etc.😉😅
Something to consider when comparing real versus fakes is that even Nike and Adidas have quality control issues that sometimes make it hard to say for certain that every legit pair is going to be perfect. That's what also makes this so difficult sometimes when comparing real versus fakes.
I recently got a pair of off white jordan 1's the blue one for like 1300 dollars, and I have't worn them out since it'll get dirty literally all my shoes are either dirty or creased so I'm thinking of getting replicas and wearing them, and just keep my originals at home.
I think you should do videos like this more often. It makes people think alot more about the fact that there are like fake designer brands for everything now a days. I would look forward to see more things like this. Keep up the good work I really like your content!
Cheers man I appreciate that a lot! I would be interested to look into it more but also don’t want to be too repetitive, I would possibly like to get a whole lot of fakes from differ t places and see how fakes differ and see if even I could guess which is real and which is fake but we’ll have to wait and see as atm I can’t afford to looking into buying fakes for content purposes. Appreciate your comment though and welcome to the channel 🤝😄
All the images, I liked the way the fake pair looked more. The stitching touching the corner of the R rather than going through it looks better, the AIR being parallel looks better, and the silhouette on the back of the shoe is better shaped.
Cheers bro 🙏🏻 yeah curiosity got the better of me hahah, don’t support it but crazy how close these reps are getting. I also added in the description, it gets worse when sneakers like the Travis Scott 1s and Sacai x Nike have such poor quality control that good reps are almost indistinguishable. Don’t know how the industry can stop it though
I’ve started considering reps after I received multiple pairs of fakes from StockX over the past year or so. I wasn’t able to get my money back for most because the “shoes meet our criteria for authenticity”. Why should I pay the authentic price if I’m not getting authentic sneakers right? The morality of it doesn’t really affect me because I already paid full resale price for the shoes so I don’t feel like I’m cheating by purchasing a fake pair that’s almost identical in quality to a real pair.
Bruh same I sold my Travis Scott 1's and they were reps but I still got like a pay check I felt like a real dirt bag so I asked for them back NEVER SELL FAKES TO STORES GUYS
I like wearing my shoes, and love new and old releases. If I can afford a genuine, I'll get it. If I can't afford it and want it enough, nothing wrong with a rep. No way I'd be wearing my NYC Pigeons to work at a restaurant if they're real. I'd be okay with the resale market's crazy pricing on limited releases if there wasn't backdooring or bots having odds waaaaaaaay stacked against normal people with one account. Everyone had a fair shot at the sneakers, that's what turns me to reps. SNKRS has a million bots, so do so many other sites and it gets to the point where it's not worth the frustration to just own a pair of shoes.
Wearing fakes are 100% okay and there’s nothing wrong with that. But selling them and saying they’re real for the same price as the original is 100% wrong.
Have a fake pair of yeezy, some footlocker guy offert me 350 i pay 100, i decline telling him that i love them and was "difficult" to find...dont tell they were fake but neither sell them to him but pass his inspection as "authentic"
People really need to wake up about the big companies advertising hyped shoes. The prices going up and up and you dont even know if those you call out for “fakes” are the same you wanna rock pretending you have “real or authentic” because the company told you that. I’ve watched some videos where the “replicas or UA’s,Pk god or whatever” are waaay more well elaborated than the real ones COMING STRAIGHT OUT THE FACTORY and NOT FROM THIRD PARTY APPS.
If I cant get the real thing for retail then I get a rep if I need to have them ...plain and simple. Reps I get are so good its crazy. Matter of fact had a real TS and the fake side by side and everything down to the smell was spot on. The box was off and that was it
@@longstrikeadam r/repsneakers. Go there and search for whatever shoe you want. Personally, I went with Tony, coco, monica, muks (dont worry about those names, just go on the subreddit). I wouldn't recommend ordering at this time of the year since its cny and postal services are shut down, so if you're looking to cop heat, do it some other time.
Buy replicas if you like the shoe, the designer or if you can't afford the original. Stunt them all you want, say they're real, but never EVER sell them.
@@keyhan404 it is indeed true. Also, it cost the same to make both, the replican as the real one. Same material and almost the same process to make except of obviously the quality on detail.
In my opinion it’s 100% even good if you buy them because you enjoy their looks or comfort or maybe just want to flex with out spending your yearly salary. Crossing the line is when you try to sell them with people under the assumption that they’re real
I literally show the website on screen. I didn’t want to show the link because I don’t want to feel as though I am promoting the sale of fakes though if you’d like to know it is perfectkickz.ru
I got bamboozled on that original pair's "AIR" text. Now I'm convinced I'm getting them UA's. My first UAs. Of course I'll still buy originals at a reasonable resell price. But not them TS, Off-whites or Unions.
Anyone notice how he said the box was printed wrong but really the top was just placed on wrong , you can literally take it off and turn it 180 degrees lmaoo
Wow thanks man! And yeah I’m saving up to get some better audio equipment but just doing my best with what I got so far 😄 appreciate your support and thanks for dropping by the comment section!
I jus hate those people that flex they fakes so hard and claiming its original but the ones who just likes the design and doesnt care about all the hype is ight
I have both the real and fake one. I rough use the fake one lol The fake one is a real good copy of it it set me back like 200$ and the real one i bought for 1.7k
Which pair of sneakers? Yeah I’m not denying that there are really good pairs of fakes out there, what is your reason that you ft the need to paid a rep of a pair of sneakers you already owned?
@@JoshuaDaniher well i use the fake pairs to do like trolls so what i would do is take some pictures of me torturing those shoes. So if people saw them they would have a stroke lmao. I take pictures like stepping on YEEZYs(fakes) and kissing someone with a balenciaga stepping atop on the AJ1 × OFF-WHITE Chicago etc Excuse my English its my 4th language lol
It is just a matter of how you put the pieces together. It doesn't matter whether you buy real or fake ones. If you look good wearing them, then that is that. I pity those who spend thousands but to the eyes of most people around, they actually either look plain or just ridiculous. By the way, 'legit check' is almost compulsory nowadays when you buy from small resellers, and that is just a clear proof that most people actually don't really know the difference between the real and fake pairs.
If you have the bread to drop and want authentics, do it. If you don't have the bread and want to rock an identical pair for close to retail, cop reps. Literally, who cares lol no shame I will 100% cop a fire pair of replicas for the toe instead of spending $2000 for an identical pair
I think depending on the complexity of the sneaker reps are good. Like a Jordan 1 is such an uncomplicated shillouette that the reps are almost identical but for more complex sneakers like say the FOG air 1 they might not be perfect due to the technical nature of the shoe
i think you should for sure have more subs! i like how i can tell that you put effort in all of your videos. youll for sure get big man i can promise you that.
I know but I didn’t know how else to do it you know 🤷🏼♂️ it’s an interesting topic to investigate and seems to be something other people are interested in? I might do more on it in the future but at the time I was going to pay $200 for a fake sneaker so this just worked out lmao. Now everyday I have emails from fake sneaker companies asking me to do the same thing for them.
@@JoshuaDaniher no it's nothing against you man I actually enjoyed the video 👌 and I'm going to be honest I've loved js for a Looooong time but damn they are expensive 😂 Ive actually considered buying a replica pair just to own a pair of js but idk it seems sketchy 😂😂😂😂
Hahah thanks man! Don’t forget to subscribe if you want to see more similar stuff. Yeah I totally agree with you man, I want a pair of Union x Jordan 1s and I don’t see them re-releasing and they’re well over $1500 atm so a replica seems like a way better idea! Though morally I feel it is wrong and I wouldn’t want to rep fakes but it does almost seem crazy to pay $1300 more for basically the exact same sneaker you feel?
the crazy thing is, TH-camrs(not you in particular) are doing these vids but doing the same re-sale thing and making the markey scarce and not allowing us to buy.
Dude they would legit sell I reckon. Even with high quality photos I don’t think people would know, especially compared to photos of other shoes for sale on grailed, I think it’d trick a few people
Joshua Daniher you just figured out how to make millions by selling 1:1 replicas. You could buy a pair of Off White Jordan 1’s for like 100-200 and sell them for like 2 grand+
I have no issue with replicas (as long as you're not selling them as real) as there is absolutely nothing to to stop Nike from charging market price for these kinds of shoes in the first place and/or producing enough to satisfy demand. I'd pay $800 for a pair of TS1's if they were direct from Nike, but I'm not going to pay that from GOAT or Stockx when there is any kind of doubt over what I'd actually be getting. So then it's either a case of don't bother at all or look in to replicas.
I've got real pairs and fake pairs of yeezys 350. real ones cost so much I dare not ware them out so I buy fake pairs to ware out lol fake pair cost me no more than 40£ I don't care what people say I just get on with my life buy them or not buy them that's upto you sod everyone else.. Nice vid by the way...
I have replicas and don't say anything unless someone asks. I enjoy the aesthetic but not the prices of OG sneakers. The resell market is ridiculous, I'd be a fool to ever spend $1000 on one pair of shoes.
Yeah and that’s the problem, plus most people who want to wear the sneakers are the younger generation and don’t often have the money to afford the real deal. But you know if you did have the real deal than wouldn’t you be a bit upset that someone is flaunting a fake pair that you’ve been lucky enough to get a real pair of?
Joshua Daniher dang I’ve never thought about it from that perspective! I think the significance of being a sneakerhead has been diminished by the increasing number of hypebeasts who get the hype stuff because it’s hype. I forget that the scarcity of a sneaker doesn’t only provide hype, but a story. You gave me a lot to think about 😂
Lee Collyer Makes absolutely no sense to give a homeless person a pair of offwhites,even fakes. People are gonna think they're faking it and they're not gonna give them money or anything.
Mhhmm and I bet the people who give them money don't even know what off white is or half the other brand most people only think of adidas /Nike so I think it would make much difference..
The best video I've ever seen about those shoes! I love those shoes but they cost a lot for my wallet and I started to think to buy a rep, but I'm not really sure to do it
it depends on how much you are into sneakers, i was dying for a pair of waverunners, but couldnt afford them so i bought reps it felt decieving to get compliments so now that i have a real job i wear only authentic clothes and it feels a lot better because i worked hard to get them.
I completely agree with you Evan! The feeling on my conscience would be far to much to make me never want to wear the shoes. When I wear shoes that I know are authentic and that I know I earned I feel proud when I wear them! 🔥
Interesting, what do you see that makes it standout as bad? I’m obviously not a season legit checker so I’m interested to hear when you look at in a rep
I own real AJ1s as well as reps....and damn if I can tell the different sometimes 🤔 Afterall it's just patches of leather on a rubber cup sole so they all feel pretty much the same on feet. The only group that I can see being significantly damaged by the rep sneakers industry are the resellers, so I'm OK with that. This is the only real way to reign in the horrific price-gouging being conducted. If the risk of copping fakes is too great hopefully folks will slowly stop willingly fork out thousands for sneakers that has a retail price of a couple hundred bucks. Brands will always do ok, as what would sell out will sell out, so I don't see their bottomline being affected too much. Of course there's always the risk of unknowingly purchasing fakes but caveat emptor I s'pose.
It is the most obvious part that it is fake, that and the box. Don’t know why they’re so different as they seem like the parts that would be the easiest to replicate
Hahah my guy I appreciate anyone who has the time to not only view my video but also leave a comment! My goal since I started my channel was to build a community around it and until it becomes literally impossible to reply to all comments I will do my best to respond and have a conversation with everyone🔥🙏🏻
Look man. Wear em, and call them real. If you go to school, buy them before school starts because then people are going to see that you wear vans. And then off white shoes the next day. And don’t sell them as fake. You’re good then
Honestly, there’s technically nothing wrong with them. Just a cheaper way of getting the shoe because in all reality, it’s practically the same. Same materials and everything for the most part. Like if you really think about it, what’s the problem with them when your saving a shit ton of money to practically get the same thing🤷🏼♂️
That’s exactly right and as long as people aren’t trying to sell fakes for the resale price of authentic pairs it seems fair right? But morally it is still a problem. Imagine if you came up with a really cool design for something like a hoodie or like some device that has come straight from your own ideas and you’re really proud of it and so you get it trademarked ect and so legally it’s your product because it’s your ideas that made it a reality. Now imagine if someone or multiple companies just started selling the exact same thing and they’re now profiting of your idea and your brand and you don’t see any return from it? Would that make you feel good or would you like to stop it? If that happened to a friend would you still by the replica product because it’s ‘technically’ the same thing or would you feel bad that your friends hard work and ideas has just been stolen by another company did nothing but plagiarise the work your friend did? Now you can say that Nike is a huge company and that they don’t need the profit but I think the problem is more regarding people profiting of stealing other companies ideas and designs, and these ideas and designs are what makes a company valuable.
Joshua Daniher At first: I would also not buy a fake pair. But big company’s like Nike etc always make full profit on hyped sneakers like the off whites. They usually sell out within seconds. It’s more the resell market which is affected. But otherwise I think people who buy fakes would not pay resell prices, but many would have copped at the release if they could. Small companies or big ones with higher stock numbers definitely lose profit by fakes.
I totally agree with you. What I don’t understand is that I don’t see to much Nike or adidas do to combat the efforts of fake sneaker production? They seemingly don’t care, I mean at least off white filed a law suit of Wish.com for selling fake off white products but I don’t think I ever hear about big companies like Nike doing anything to stop it even though they have all the money and power to do so! I also understand the need for scarcity to drive the sneaker market and sell out releases but I also think they could release more pairs for every hyper sneaker and instead of selling out in a couple hours they might totally sell out in a couple days, Nike gets more money as they moved for stock, the consumer has a real opportunity to get the sneakers they want and the resale market will still live as sneakers will only have a single release date like myself atm wants a pair of Union Jordan 1s and so I’m going to have to buy them resale as they’re not releasing again but if they released twice as many pairs originally I’d still have to pay resale at this point.
It’s crazy cause if all celebrities started wearing “ fakes” shoes all of us would start buying “fake” shoes
NELL REACTS some of them do (maybe because they got scammed from a supposed “plug”) and most people do as well 🤣
Many of them do for photos and stage shows. 9 times out of 10 they wear the shit once or twice. People will think it's real because of who they are and they are percieved to have money. They end up giving it to one of their guys on the team to keep them looking rich. Trust not many are wearing real shoes for stage shows especially if they have a sneaker connect ordering them and getting it to their stylist. Trust me I've seen it with my own two 👀
Offwhite factory not even close.
@@johntitor1054 You're not earning them you're getting ripped off by resellers by paying hundreds or thousands for shoes that retail for a 2-3 hundred.
@@johntitor1054 exactly. Some shit is just for the flex. You can earn something and only real people respect it. However, how many real people are the compared to all this fake shit out here. In a photo it looks the same to them and all the mindless people who just hit a like button so that's all that matters.
I don’t think buying replicas is wrong, but saying they are original is very wrong.
You talking about buying fakes and people saying that they’re legit? Or even worse people sell fakes to others claiming it to be an authentic pair and selling them at the resale price
@@JoshuaDaniher first one doesn't matter since because the person is just lying about something and not scamming anyone
I have some fakes and not gonna lie it’s scary bc I compare them and some of them have better leather quality than authentic it’s ok to buy ua shoes not everyone has the money and no one wants to buy resell price ppl just wanna be in fashion and it’s all good I respect fashion but just don’t resell or claim there real I have some real off white air forces but a pair of ua 97spoons and I let ppl know they ua but ya I feel
Joshua Daniher basically what he means is that if you buy replica's, you should say that they are replicas, don't say they're OG.
Taran Manaktala At the end of the day, nobody cares. It’s all in your mind how you feel about wearing replicas
All ima say is that nobody’s gonna look at your reps and be like “hmm that mark is .3 cm away from where it should be”
Isaiah R. Exactly
Facts
Haven’t met me have you?
Exactly
Get out of here, why would you admit to being so petty?
Can't say shit when these brands manufacture their products in the same place where reps are produced
I know man, that’s why it’s pretty much impossible to tell the difference anymore
Joshua Daniher my retail pair of Infrared 6 has more glue stains than my rep
Yamagucci Mane I’ve heard many stories about replicas having better quality than the retail pair just can’t bring myself to wear fake sneakers
@Doug Castillo There's some truth in that: it's not often the case but it does happen. When it does, its usually because a replica factory wants to impress a major buyer or is just starting up operations, so they put in the extra effort, whereas the retail pair may be QC'd by someone who is being judged more on yield rate than "acceptable" quality. It's actually a lot more common in the apparel sector - you have people like me go in and help companies cut costs, but sooner or later there's a risk things go too far and you tip over from cutting costs into cutting corners... :-(
Hiratio Masterson damn yeah I was think that’s so crazy no way it’s that common when people tell about better quality reps but I definitely could see how appearel would be more common
I would just act like they’re real until someone asked and tell them they are not real
Bro but how awkward would that be!!!!!! Jks I guess as long as you’re honest that’s important, but all these fakes being a fraction of the price of resale and based on how good they look that might be a viable strategy 🤔
@@JoshuaDaniher it really is... I'd rather pay ~retail price to a chinese hustler than 500% of retail to a spoilt 17yo who bot bought 12 pairs with dad's debit card. Because the quality of these high tier batches is insane
if you're in hs and someone calls you out and you say it's fake. they're gonna think everything u own is fake lmao
@@ThePowerPlayzMC who CARES? Once you become an adult, you stop giving a shit about other people opinion. Only in elementary school and high school is there any sort of social pressure to keep up with the jones.
Or ignore them and dont answer😂
I can't believe how Manderoti took over market in such a short period of time, insane
I have done some work in the industry (this isn't my real name, ha!) and would like to give you a bit of insight. What often happens is that counterfeits/replicas/fakes start off life as factory samples: Nike, adidas, Puma etc...they do not make their own shoes in their own factories (this is slowly changing for some very high tech shoes though). They simply subcontract out manufacture to independently run factories in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia etc. What happens is they send design specs to a number of factories and ask them to make sample pairs, to check for quality etc. After some banter on pricing, they may select one, sometimes two factories to do a production run. The other factories that didn't get the order are supposed to destroy all existing samples and the tooling...most reputable ones do...But on occasion, some staff members take the blueprints and manufacturing process documentation, sometimes tooling and sell them to less reputable places. That is how the quality replicas often start life. There is a huge amount of shoemaking expertise in Asia and many of the Nike Air limited releases are based off well understood technology and materials - the Nike Air Force design has been around for over 30 years, thus it is easy for many to make excellent quality replicas. It is harder to properly copy higher technology designs like the adidas ultraboost, with the knit material uppers, Continental rubber outsole and of course the boost material, but this is changing rapidly. Oh, and sometimes 'replicas' are made by the authorised factories, but simply do not pass QC checks...and sometimes, what they do is when they get an order for maybe 25,000 pairs, they make 30,000 instead. 25,000 get sent through authorised supply chain channels...and the other 5,000 leave the factory via guys on motorbikes, private trucks etc. It's an interesting industry indeed...
Wow thanks for your insight! I’m sure plenty of people would like to see this. It is very interesting and I’m interested to see how it changes in the future as it seems some of these fakes for shoes like Jordan 1s ect are reasonably easy to replicate and the fakes just get better and better. Thank you for sharing your insight and welcome to the channel! 😄
@@JoshuaDaniherHappy to be here and see how people respond to replicas...and especially when they find out the definition is not so easy as to what one is. Some replicas indeed are pretty awful, the type of stuff you would have gotten in the 1990s: the basic silhouette is there but the design details are all over the place. But some of the best ones...even someone who actually makes authorised pairs would struggle to tell the difference: materials and tooling are identical or within QC tolerance. The real problem seems to be when people get these high quality replicas and sell them on StockX as the real deal - and even the StockX experts can be fooled. No easy answers to that one...
Yeah I think the biggest problem in the world of fakes is the sale of them disguised as authentic. I’m not 100% on what StockX or goat do to legit check pairs but if they’re just looking for cosmetic differences than I think they will eventually run into trouble when sneaker reps become too close to tell. Idk if sneaker compiles will start personally adding authentication barcodes or tags to each shoe after they come back from Asia but otherwise I don’t see a genuine way to legit check. Also when legit pairs may still have the odd defect
@@JoshuaDaniher There's work being done on barcodes as well as blockchain technologies to help with authentication, but it's a never ending game: one side acts, the other reacts, then the other reacts to that etc etc ad nauseum. When you have retail pairs going for $200-300 for a production run of ~800-5,000, but the demand for the sneakers is tens of thousands (or as with the ultraboost initially, where adidas massively underestimated the demand for the line in 2015 and because the materials and production techniques were so different to the norm, it was very hard to get a pair for the first 2 years and resale prices were also pretty nutty), then StockX prices run into the high hundreds and in a few cases a few thousand...and suddenly these guys in China (who really don't make that much margin per sneaker) suddenly see the chance to rake in some solid cash with very little overall risk...the temptation is pretty clear. One of thing I should mention was that back in 2017, there was one new Quality Control manager at a major factory near Putian (where else?) who thought he would make an impression by setting ridiculously high standards for a batch of AF1s: one tiny stitch not perfectly symmetrical and even, the entire shoe was chucked: the yield rate (percentage accepted as defect free) dropped to below 15%. Almost 600 pairs went into a reject pile before he got a talking to. But those shoes were not accepted back as OK...and they weren't junked. Have heard a few stories about what happened, but the most credible one was that the QC guy got rid of them via unofficial channels and gave all the money back to the factory to keep his job. These sneakers are not fake, but they are "unauthorized": a handful may have defects that would normally not pass QC, but the majority are well within production tolerances. Another grey area...
That’s crazy man! Also crazy how they’re going to use block-chain for an actual physical item, like I’m aware how it can be used for digital authentication but not with an actual physical product. Appreciate your insight a heap, so with all you know do you advocate for fakes or are you against it? Like what side are you on and what is the biggest reason you feel that way?
I mean I have a list of probably like 20+ sneakers I want that I’m waiting till I can afford when I’m working full time that might cost $30k+ if I were to collect them all but probably like less than $4k if I bought reps, is it even worth trusting the resale market if reps are floating around in that space now? I don’t want to pay $10k+ on ‘authentic’ sneakers from the resale market if someone can’t confidently say they’re 100% authentic as otherwise I might just be paying more for reps! Idk man what do you think for now and in the future as what will happen and what sneakerheads should do if they miss copping their latest sneakers for retail?
The same poor Chinese kid probably made both anyway, it just depends weather or not you care about if Nike acknowledges they’re real
Thanks for both of your opinions, I agree they are probably produced in the exact same factory. You can’t say reps don’t use child labour unless you can confirm they use their own seperate factories yet I think they’re the same factories for everything and Nike doesn’t own them they’re just outsourced to have them produced.
@Ryan Loomis 2.0 yeah man i can agree with that, ive seen videos similar too that aswell. I mean im not much of an expert on the subject but I do know bulk engineering companies that outsource almost every single part they produce as long as it makes sense to have it shipped cost-wise. I wonder though if Nike does any quality control when it arrives in America or whichever country it is being sold? As I assume after each pair is produced it is just shipped to wherever it is going to be sold straight from the factory.
Facts
MeSaDrums CORRECTION Vietnamese kid
They're probably just not up to standard for Nike so they put those in a separate bag to sale as replicas
Working in a hospital, theres no way I'm wearing real off white around sick people. I'm repping these to work.
Andrew Loera Uncle Tony got you
@@filipiino96793 Yoooo repfam everywhere. Just copped the G5 inertias. For a second thought i got the real pair lmao
Andrew Loera get real ones for ya day off
Belle Zhopa BM Lin to save some money . Repfam 👌
Imagine a surgeon rocking some UNC J1s during surgery yooooo
plot twist: his real ones are fake too
Can confirm that they are the real deal 👍🏻
😭😂😭😂😂😂
Gin Gorp couldnt take the joke🤣
best place to buy reps is Manderoti
Shoutout to my aunt Linda, my homie Tony, my boy Will, my Supreme lords Mirror, Kingshark and TC. My budget boys 0832 and 3125, my Stone plug TopStoney for letting me drip down for half the price of retail, reps are the wave boys, say no retail. Same quality lesser price.
Lmao are those all rep sellers?
Joshua Daniher yeah bro, on R/FashionReps they are everywhere. Been buying retail all my life, once I found out about replicas, switched all the way and it is true what they say, you only pay because of the name
Also loved the video and subscribed my man 🙏🏻
OGTONY is lit bro! I never got called out after having my waverunners for almost a year now, and Mirror bogos are Dope!
Shout out to the teenageclub where i grew up with my girl monica and her dog coco , on that 158sir avenue ;)
Fake is all in your mind if they look legit
cassh meoutt ok boomer
@@thekiddep ?
@@thekiddep nice funny boomer joke man i laughed
@@thekiddep shut yo degenerate corny ass up
In my oppinion having replica's is perfectly fine and selling them is perfectly fine, as long as you're not advertising them as being legit.
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Nah you right on the first one but selling them thats just fucked up
@@ccarbs9204 very idc if anyone has reps I still compliment but trying to scam is wrong
@@ccarbs9204 I think you didn’t read his comment right. He said selling them is fine, AS LONG as you’re not selling them as legit pairs.
The "AIR" on the real pair is crooked. So really hard to say if a pair is perfect or fake as they are all man made and cannot be all the same.
Exactly why I made this video! Each pair will have slight discrepancies and the fakes now days are so good that these little errors are impossible to tell when compare to the real pair! Let me ask did you guess correctly all of the correct real vs fake questions?
@@JoshuaDaniher No, it's really hard to tell the real from fakes 100% of the time. The really good copies or fakes are made to almost 1:1 replicas of the authentic ones that you have to have several pairs of authentic to compare side by side with a replica pair. That's how good they have made the fake ones now. And I think most of the real good fakes are made from the same factories which produces the authentic ones so it's not hard for them to produce a close copy of the real ones.
That’s what I’m sayin too. Crazy because if I got a pair of “authentic” ones for 2 bands ppl gonna assume they are fake because not many folks got em AND they gonna notice the text is off. So in my opinion it doesn’t matter. If I want the shoes imma go to DHgate and drop 50 on em and be fresh. Why would I pay 2k just to say they are authentic? Just my opinion. The fakes are real to me. LOL
Eazy Da Chef think again the materials aren’t even worth 4K the shoe retails at 190$ remember that
wtf no its not, its because the side sole gets thinner as you reach the toe numnuts
I only buy at geveroti
Me too
Guys don't trust him, geveroti is a total scam, these are not comments and fake likes. They never give you the shoes and doesn't give u a refund even if u have paid
Its fake
@@neckman6147 fax
If you buy high end reps it's pretty much impossible to tell a difference from a retail pair, I own 6 pairs of Jordan 1s, 2 replica pairs and 4 retail pairs and there's no difference in quality between them at all.
Bro 100% like morally it’s wrong to sell reps because you know it’s like stealing someone else’s idea or art and selling it as your own but quality wise they’re basically identical, and you’d hardly ever pay more than retail for the best quality reps. Also really they’re all made in the same place with the same materials. Unless Nike start manufacturing in America than it’s practically the same thing all coming out of Asia.
EddyGraphic where do u buy your reps at?
@@williamjenkins4061 go to r/RepSneakers
Jay Bhatt thanks
@@williamjenkins4061 np man there's a website called monicasneaker(dot)com that is pretty good quality and has a sale right now. Let me know if you need anything else.
What they really need to do is find a way to eliminate bots so that everyone has a chance of paying retail for shoes. That would solve everyones problem
Or just make you buy in store so you’d have to wait in line for it
All fax no printer. Go on tick tock and you can find vids of people who make videos on the best bots to cop shoes
Would be funny if u left these out sitting next together and had to run somewhere and come back to the crib not knowing which one is the fake and which is the real pair 😂😂
My guy 100%!!!! Once I unboxed them and brought out my legit pair I was like damn I better do something so I don’t end up mixing them up hahha so I have a little piece of tape on the sole of the fakes so I can tell which is which 😂
I personally love rocking replicas as I don’t have to worry about the value of the sneaker and can rock them with no worries plus no one will call you out when rocking them as no one can tell when they’re on feet
Where can i buy cheapest replicas sneakers? I'm from India 🇮🇳.
@@homeat103 r/repbudgetsneakers or r/repsneakers on reddit
Even if your shoes are fake/legit it doesn’t matter as long as you know how to wear them or style them
Whenever the fakes actually start to look better than the real lmao
Imagine selling them on accident with one fake and one real😭then they tried to sell them to a buy sell trade store and they took hours to determine wtf is going on
dude, like the type of people that work at those stores hardly have a degree in sneaker authentication, like would they really be able to tell?
🤣🤣🤣
Hold up you might be onto somethin 😳
I personally don't have reps, nor am I a diehard sneakerhead. But to keep it 100% with you, I could give 2 fucks whether you wear reps or not. If you don't have the money or just don't want to spend thousands on some sneakers, then I perfectly understand. If they make you happy, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. As long as you acknowledge that they are reps and don't claim them to something they are not, I see no problem. Do what makes you happy.
As I see it, a shoe is a shoe the only difference between those sneakers would be the factory they are produced in and their prices, they are basically overall the same design. Most people dont like replicas cause they are cheaper then the normal price and In my opinion of you want to flex just leave the price mark on your shoe to show how much you paid for it since that's really the only thing making the shoes different, of every shoe in the world costed 100$ there would be no such thing as real or replica cause people wouldn't care as they all costed the same, we would view them as only shoes but now that there is a 1000 dollar design, if you get ot for cheaper the shoe is automatically labeled replica or fake which dont make much sense, just leave the tag or take receipt with you when you spend that much money on a shoe so you can flex the price cause that's really all that you can flex as design comes cheap and expensive but shows as a shoe
It’s not a money thing I feel it’s more a community thing, I mean sure some people just want to flex, but when I wear authentic sneakers I know I’m a genuine contributor to the sneaker community and I’m more comfortable not feeling like I’ve faked it. Regardless I still see your perspective and that’s the great debate or reps.
Appreciate your insight mate and thanks for stopping by the channel ✅🤝
Might as well grab a pair of reps of all your favorite sneakers, that way you can actually wear and enjoy them without worrying about every step you take
Here’s my thought if I get a chance to buy the “real authentic ones I will buy them” but if I miss out on them I’m not gonna pay no resell price (what the seller wants) that’s normally outrageous for no sneakers.
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I'm not into fakes but if I were to rock a pair I wouldn't go for a hype shoe since that brings too much attention/suspicion about the shoes being legit. I'd go for like a Yeezy 700 V2 Vanta Black or Jordan 1 Chicago
Bro Chicagos are pretty hype but I agree, especially for complicated sneakers like the off white ect where there is so much to get wrong regarding material and prints and colours but af1s and AJ1s are pre easy to rep as they’re just leather panels
@@JoshuaDaniher true AJ 1s in general. AF1s are pretty affordable unless you're going for a collab really. True Chicago 1s are hype but here in the UK Jordan's dont have as much hype compared to the US unless its a collab with Off White Supreme or whatever hyped up brand
Yeah I feel that. I could probably wear any fake retro AJ1 or Jordan in general and no one in Australia will care because not that many people are into sneaker culture to be able to tell and potential tiny off details from a rep. Considered wearing my fake pair from this video to the gym and see how many people notice, I doubt anyone would give a fuck
Chicagos are hyped as fuck, they sell for over $1,000 now.
Name a better shoe than a Chicago 1 though? Never out of fashion
Is it really a replica of there using the same material? If there using the same materials the shoe is real just not approved by Nike
Third-party Nikes
Galaxi what does third party mean in your definition
@@unknownbillionaire In commerce, a "third-party source" means a supplier who is not directly controlled by either the seller (first party) nor the customer/buyer (second party) in a business transaction.
They don't use good materials always ... I've tried replicas and they worn out after 7-8 months if used daily . You can only use them ocassionally
@@rajanbgmiyt you got shit reps then.
I have taken 150 L’s on the SNKRS app in the last 5 or so years (with only two W’s). Shoes that I genuinely want to wear are sold out in seconds and aftermarket prices are double if not triple the price. I remember a time where it was all about wearing shoes but now it’s just a bunch of hypebeast’s and resellers causing high prices and in my opinion ruining the sneaker industry and culture. That said, if you buy a fake shoe just be honest.
There’s so much truth to this it’s starting to hurt. I failed the test 😂
Lmao! I hoped that would provide some real insight into how similar they are! Given my legit pair had been worn in a little that they didn’t look so super new next time I might have to test myself and see if I can get right hahha thanks for stopping by the channel and leaving a comment, I appreciate you 🔥
Thankyou for helping me decide that fakes are great and worth every penny. Cheers!
I dont think getting replicas are wrong, if they’re comfy and they look good, why not? You get the comfort of the high quality shoe but with a reasonable price!
Imagine you mixed up the shoe after shooting this vid and couldn't identify them.
Look exactly the same
I know right! That’s what’s crazy about it. Especially if quality control drops on legit pairs I’ll be almost impossible to distinguish a difference
Joshua Daniher some people call out my legit prestos because they aren’t perfect
Kenep I people who call out other people’s sneakers are literally bored with life and need to mind they own
Flüchtlinge willkommen what you mean where the money goes ?
Flüchtlinge willkommen do you live in the US? Impossible to get most exclusive shoes these days with bots and other shady tactics buying them all for retail.
You get what you pay for period
Im team quality over cheap prices
But to each is own i understand how some sneakers are ridiculously overpriced.
I love the way Travis Scott’s 1’s look and I wish i could get em for less than $800-$1000 I would def go “replicas”
My opinion : as I’ve seen the comments buying fakes isn’t wrong but saying they are real is wrong. And the reason I don’t buy replicas is because i just need to have the these pairs are real feeling. And most people too. So I think it’s not like that if a celebrity would start wearing fakes everyone would too.
97% of women you go out with don’t even know what brands you have on but of course your lady will learn from you as time goes on but trust outside of high school nobody is going to approach you saying they are fake so just make sure you don’t wear fakes when going to hyped up stores like roundtwo etc.😉😅
So basically you covered yourself very well while still promoting them👍🏾😎🤣great job!!
It’s fine as long as your not showing off them as real
Sneakers 4 life as long as you rock em however you would and try not to sell em as real yourgood
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Something to consider when comparing real versus fakes is that even Nike and Adidas have quality control issues that sometimes make it hard to say for certain that every legit pair is going to be perfect. That's what also makes this so difficult sometimes when comparing real versus fakes.
Agree with you completely. People even get legit authentic pairs with heavy defects which in some cases makes them less valuable than a nice UA pair
I recently got a pair of off white jordan 1's the blue one for like 1300 dollars, and I have't worn them out since it'll get dirty literally all my shoes are either dirty or creased so I'm thinking of getting replicas and wearing them, and just keep my originals at home.
is there a link to the site?
instagram: @Aurorashoes, dm me
Super video Joshua! Big congrats on almost 900, keep it up my friend! :D
Thank you for the support! I’m very busy with studies and work but I hope to have more content coming soon 🙏🏻
I think you should do videos like this more often. It makes people think alot more about the fact that there are like fake designer brands for everything now a days. I would look forward to see more things like this. Keep up the good work I really like your content!
Cheers man I appreciate that a lot! I would be interested to look into it more but also don’t want to be too repetitive, I would possibly like to get a whole lot of fakes from differ t places and see how fakes differ and see if even I could guess which is real and which is fake but we’ll have to wait and see as atm I can’t afford to looking into buying fakes for content purposes. Appreciate your comment though and welcome to the channel 🤝😄
Yes, yes and yes.
Every sneakerhead cant afford the original ones.
All the images, I liked the way the fake pair looked more. The stitching touching the corner of the R rather than going through it looks better, the AIR being parallel looks better, and the silhouette on the back of the shoe is better shaped.
It hurts me when I see perfect reps
free stiff is free stuff i dont blame you - great vid i agree with everything you said!
Cheers bro 🙏🏻 yeah curiosity got the better of me hahah, don’t support it but crazy how close these reps are getting. I also added in the description, it gets worse when sneakers like the Travis Scott 1s and Sacai x Nike have such poor quality control that good reps are almost indistinguishable. Don’t know how the industry can stop it though
I’ve started considering reps after I received multiple pairs of fakes from StockX over the past year or so. I wasn’t able to get my money back for most because the “shoes meet our criteria for authenticity”. Why should I pay the authentic price if I’m not getting authentic sneakers right? The morality of it doesn’t really affect me because I already paid full resale price for the shoes so I don’t feel like I’m cheating by purchasing a fake pair that’s almost identical in quality to a real pair.
One of my buddy’s is a really big collector of sneakers. He buys reps so his authentic pairs stay DS LOLLL
Bruh same I sold my Travis Scott 1's and they were reps but I still got like a pay check I felt like a real dirt bag so I asked for them back NEVER SELL FAKES TO STORES GUYS
Ayudh Dhupar where did you get them from. They must look hella real
@@ant5484 Tony
Ayudh Dhupar Af’1s or j’s and what batch
@@ant5484 GQ Tony high J's
I like wearing my shoes, and love new and old releases. If I can afford a genuine, I'll get it. If I can't afford it and want it enough, nothing wrong with a rep. No way I'd be wearing my NYC Pigeons to work at a restaurant if they're real. I'd be okay with the resale market's crazy pricing on limited releases if there wasn't backdooring or bots having odds waaaaaaaay stacked against normal people with one account. Everyone had a fair shot at the sneakers, that's what turns me to reps. SNKRS has a million bots, so do so many other sites and it gets to the point where it's not worth the frustration to just own a pair of shoes.
One of the best fashion channels on youtube !
Cheers my man, appreciate it! 🔥
Wearing fakes are 100% okay and there’s nothing wrong with that. But selling them and saying they’re real for the same price as the original is 100% wrong.
Have a fake pair of yeezy, some footlocker guy offert me 350 i pay 100, i decline telling him that i love them and was "difficult" to find...dont tell they were fake but neither sell them to him but pass his inspection as "authentic"
Lmao well goes to show your reps at decent! Thanks for stopping by the channel, appreciate it 🔥
Omar Prez I had a stroke reading this
What site did you use?
First youtuber to give an actual good reason to subscribe
Hahha cheers my guy, I appreciate you g 🔥🙏🏻
u look so professional I subbed!
Hey man appreciate that so much! Welcome to the channel 🔥🙏🏻
People really need to wake up about the big companies advertising hyped shoes. The prices going up and up and you dont even know if those you call out for “fakes” are the same you wanna rock pretending you have “real or authentic” because the company told you that. I’ve watched some videos where the “replicas or UA’s,Pk god or whatever” are waaay more well elaborated than the real ones COMING STRAIGHT OUT THE FACTORY and NOT FROM THIRD PARTY APPS.
If I cant get the real thing for retail then I get a rep if I need to have them ...plain and simple. Reps I get are so good its crazy. Matter of fact had a real TS and the fake side by side and everything down to the smell was spot on. The box was off and that was it
right, but you ain't wearing the box
where you getting your reps bro?
@@longstrikeadam r/repsneakers. Go there and search for whatever shoe you want. Personally, I went with Tony, coco, monica, muks (dont worry about those names, just go on the subreddit). I wouldn't recommend ordering at this time of the year since its cny and postal services are shut down, so if you're looking to cop heat, do it some other time.
Buy replicas if you like the shoe, the designer or if you can't afford the original. Stunt them all you want, say they're real, but never EVER sell them.
They're all made in the same factories from the same materials anyway
That's just not true
@@keyhan404 that's just based off of a documentary I watched 🤷♂️
@@jackgoward8858 it's the people that work in the factories that sell rep companion the plans.
@@keyhan404 it is indeed true. Also, it cost the same to make both, the replican as the real one. Same material and almost the same process to make except of obviously the quality on detail.
@@kgd1163 that's why I dint mind buying replicas, it's just bad when someone sells a fake at retail as a real product.
I’m ok with buying fakes the only time people would expose you for having fakes if you are flexing or selling them
They’re jus’ shoes. Who cares if they fake?😂😂 Protect yo’ feet. It’s all that matters
In my opinion it’s 100% even good if you buy them because you enjoy their looks or comfort or maybe just want to flex with out spending your yearly salary. Crossing the line is when you try to sell them with people under the assumption that they’re real
Why not give us the site as to where to get them
I literally show the website on screen. I didn’t want to show the link because I don’t want to feel as though I am promoting the sale of fakes though if you’d like to know it is perfectkickz.ru
They are expensive for reps dhgate is better for price u can't tell the difference
Dude DHgate looks dodgey as!
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I got bamboozled on that original pair's "AIR" text.
Now I'm convinced I'm getting them UA's. My first UAs. Of course I'll still buy originals at a reasonable resell price. But not them TS, Off-whites or Unions.
you should customize them 😃
That’s a neat idea! I’ll have to try and think of a creative way to do so 😄
Where did He buy those replicas? Thank you!
he bought them on perfectkickz.ru
What's the site lol? I need some bred 1s and air maxs
Try yeskicks.cn
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Anyone notice how he said the box was printed wrong but really the top was just placed on wrong , you can literally take it off and turn it 180 degrees lmaoo
quality video! def work on the mic audio part of the video! everything else is perfect
Wow thanks man! And yeah I’m saving up to get some better audio equipment but just doing my best with what I got so far 😄 appreciate your support and thanks for dropping by the comment section!
I jus hate those people that flex they fakes so hard and claiming its original but the ones who just likes the design and doesnt care about all the hype is ight
I have both the real and fake one. I rough use the fake one lol
The fake one is a real good copy of it it set me back like 200$ and the real one i bought for 1.7k
Which pair of sneakers? Yeah I’m not denying that there are really good pairs of fakes out there, what is your reason that you ft the need to paid a rep of a pair of sneakers you already owned?
@@JoshuaDaniher well i use the fake pairs to do like trolls so what i would do is take some pictures of me torturing those shoes. So if people saw them they would have a stroke lmao. I take pictures like stepping on YEEZYs(fakes) and kissing someone with a balenciaga stepping atop on the AJ1 × OFF-WHITE Chicago etc
Excuse my English its my 4th language lol
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It is just a matter of how you put the pieces together. It doesn't matter whether you buy real or fake ones. If you look good wearing them, then that is that. I pity those who spend thousands but to the eyes of most people around, they actually either look plain or just ridiculous. By the way, 'legit check' is almost compulsory nowadays when you buy from small resellers, and that is just a clear proof that most people actually don't really know the difference between the real and fake pairs.
If you have the bread to drop and want authentics, do it.
If you don't have the bread and want to rock an identical pair for close to retail, cop reps.
Literally, who cares lol no shame I will 100% cop a fire pair of replicas for the toe instead of spending $2000 for an identical pair
I think depending on the complexity of the sneaker reps are good. Like a Jordan 1 is such an uncomplicated shillouette that the reps are almost identical but for more complex sneakers like say the FOG air 1 they might not be perfect due to the technical nature of the shoe
i think you should for sure have more subs! i like how i can tell that you put effort in all of your videos. youll for sure get big man i can promise you that.
Appreciate that my guy, thanks for sticking by the channel I need for optimism for people like you in my comment section hahah 🔥🙏🏻
How do they smell ?
Lmao wired af,
Even though you say you AINT promoting you're BASICALLY PROMOTING 💯😂😂😂😂
I know but I didn’t know how else to do it you know 🤷🏼♂️ it’s an interesting topic to investigate and seems to be something other people are interested in? I might do more on it in the future but at the time I was going to pay $200 for a fake sneaker so this just worked out lmao. Now everyday I have emails from fake sneaker companies asking me to do the same thing for them.
@@JoshuaDaniher no it's nothing against you man I actually enjoyed the video 👌 and I'm going to be honest I've loved js for a Looooong time but damn they are expensive 😂 Ive actually considered buying a replica pair just to own a pair of js but idk it seems sketchy 😂😂😂😂
Hahah thanks man! Don’t forget to subscribe if you want to see more similar stuff. Yeah I totally agree with you man, I want a pair of Union x Jordan 1s and I don’t see them re-releasing and they’re well over $1500 atm so a replica seems like a way better idea! Though morally I feel it is wrong and I wouldn’t want to rep fakes but it does almost seem crazy to pay $1300 more for basically the exact same sneaker you feel?
@@JoshuaDaniher I completely feel you on that man 💯
You definitely got a new subscriber keep it up 🔥🔥🔥
Bro I appreciate that so much! Thanks for stopping by the comment section, always love to have a chat to viewers regarding the content of my videos 😄
Can you send me the replica I’ll rock them fr
Imagine the fake pair feels more comfortable and more walkable compared to the authentic pair. XD
What’s the site called? So I can copp some and do a review as well
Bro I said it like a million times in the comments, scroll down and you’ll find it hahah thanks for stopping by my channel though I appreciate it 🙏🏻👍🏻
the crazy thing is, TH-camrs(not you in particular) are doing these vids but doing the same re-sale thing and making the markey scarce and not allowing us to buy.
You should attempt to (almost) sale the fake pair on grailed then tell them it's fake at the last minute
Dude they would legit sell I reckon. Even with high quality photos I don’t think people would know, especially compared to photos of other shoes for sale on grailed, I think it’d trick a few people
Joshua Daniher you just figured out how to make millions by selling 1:1 replicas. You could buy a pair of Off White Jordan 1’s for like 100-200 and sell them for like 2 grand+
Sneak: 100
Morals: 0
Yikes
Joshua Daniher it’s 6 in the morning in the UK and I’m laughing my arse off 😂😂
@@JoshuaDaniher How do you think flight club etc. have so many limited pairs? They sell perfect replicas too
I have no issue with replicas (as long as you're not selling them as real) as there is absolutely nothing to to stop Nike from charging market price for these kinds of shoes in the first place and/or producing enough to satisfy demand. I'd pay $800 for a pair of TS1's if they were direct from Nike, but I'm not going to pay that from GOAT or Stockx when there is any kind of doubt over what I'd actually be getting.
So then it's either a case of don't bother at all or look in to replicas.
I've got real pairs and fake pairs of yeezys 350. real ones cost so much I dare not ware them out so I buy fake pairs to ware out lol fake pair cost me no more than 40£ I don't care what people say I just get on with my life buy them or not buy them that's upto you sod everyone else.. Nice vid by the way...
Plot twist: they sent you the real ones
Grace tong is rele smart , this is great free promotion or the cost which is 2 bucks for the sneakers n shipping price lol smart woman
Grace tongs website doesn’t exist anymore lmao, definitely didn’t expect this video to blow up as much as it did tho
I have replicas and don't say anything unless someone asks. I enjoy the aesthetic but not the prices of OG sneakers. The resell market is ridiculous, I'd be a fool to ever spend $1000 on one pair of shoes.
Yeah and that’s the problem, plus most people who want to wear the sneakers are the younger generation and don’t often have the money to afford the real deal. But you know if you did have the real deal than wouldn’t you be a bit upset that someone is flaunting a fake pair that you’ve been lucky enough to get a real pair of?
Joshua Daniher dang I’ve never thought about it from that perspective! I think the significance of being a sneakerhead has been diminished by the increasing number of hypebeasts who get the hype stuff because it’s hype. I forget that the scarcity of a sneaker doesn’t only provide hype, but a story. You gave me a lot to think about 😂
Hahah that’s all good man, and yeah you’re right that the ‘hype’ culture has cut into what was sneaker culture which has kinda messed things up a bit
Give them to a homeless person they always need things like this
Lee Collyer Makes absolutely no sense to give a homeless person a pair of offwhites,even fakes. People are gonna think they're faking it and they're not gonna give them money or anything.
Mhhmm and I bet the people who give them money don't even know what off white is or half the other brand most people only think of adidas /Nike so I think it would make much difference..
rubber chicken ツ atleast theyre helping them
The best video I've ever seen about those shoes! I love those shoes but they cost a lot for my wallet and I started to think to buy a rep, but I'm not really sure to do it
it depends on how much you are into sneakers, i was dying for a pair of waverunners, but couldnt afford them so i bought reps it felt decieving to get compliments so now that i have a real job i wear only authentic clothes and it feels a lot better because i worked hard to get them.
I completely agree with you Evan! The feeling on my conscience would be far to much to make me never want to wear the shoes. When I wear shoes that I know are authentic and that I know I earned I feel proud when I wear them! 🔥
I would've RL'd the rep because of the air placement
pinku_ repfam out here
@@ThomasMLampe still lookin for that 1:1 succ
Is the air on the fake that bad?
@@JoshuaDaniher very. in fact the whole replica screams BAD.
Interesting, what do you see that makes it standout as bad? I’m obviously not a season legit checker so I’m interested to hear when you look at in a rep
I prefer replicas, their made out of the same jordan material just different people plus most people can't afford Jordan's
AIR looks like a weird spelling when you look at it for a long time
I don’t think it harms at all shoe designers. At the end of the day they’re getting their big check anyway.
I own real AJ1s as well as reps....and damn if I can tell the different sometimes 🤔 Afterall it's just patches of leather on a rubber cup sole so they all feel pretty much the same on feet.
The only group that I can see being significantly damaged by the rep sneakers industry are the resellers, so I'm OK with that. This is the only real way to reign in the horrific price-gouging being conducted. If the risk of copping fakes is too great hopefully folks will slowly stop willingly fork out thousands for sneakers that has a retail price of a couple hundred bucks. Brands will always do ok, as what would sell out will sell out, so I don't see their bottomline being affected too much. Of course there's always the risk of unknowingly purchasing fakes but caveat emptor I s'pose.
The only way to spot the difference is the zip tie. OG zip tie is so HD and beautiful, the fake pair looks really bas
It is the most obvious part that it is fake, that and the box. Don’t know why they’re so different as they seem like the parts that would be the easiest to replicate
Video starts at 9:20
*review starts at 9:20, video starts at 0:00
Joshua Daniher that’s what I meant. Sorry if it sounded rude or something
Nah all good my brother, just don’t want people thinking the first half of the video is unnecessary or not relevant to the story of the video hahah
Hahah my guy I appreciate anyone who has the time to not only view my video but also leave a comment! My goal since I started my channel was to build a community around it and until it becomes literally impossible to reply to all comments I will do my best to respond and have a conversation with everyone🔥🙏🏻
Look man. Wear em, and call them real. If you go to school, buy them before school starts because then people are going to see that you wear vans. And then off white shoes the next day. And don’t sell them as fake. You’re good then
Sounds like a plan g 🤷🏼♂️
Joshua Daniher 😅
Hahah anyways thanks for stopping by the channel man and leaving your thoughts! Feel free to join the fam and subscribe for more 🔥
Honestly, there’s technically nothing wrong with them. Just a cheaper way of getting the shoe because in all reality, it’s practically the same. Same materials and everything for the most part. Like if you really think about it, what’s the problem with them when your saving a shit ton of money to practically get the same thing🤷🏼♂️
That’s exactly right and as long as people aren’t trying to sell fakes for the resale price of authentic pairs it seems fair right?
But morally it is still a problem. Imagine if you came up with a really cool design for something like a hoodie or like some device that has come straight from your own ideas and you’re really proud of it and so you get it trademarked ect and so legally it’s your product because it’s your ideas that made it a reality. Now imagine if someone or multiple companies just started selling the exact same thing and they’re now profiting of your idea and your brand and you don’t see any return from it? Would that make you feel good or would you like to stop it? If that happened to a friend would you still by the replica product because it’s ‘technically’ the same thing or would you feel bad that your friends hard work and ideas has just been stolen by another company did nothing but plagiarise the work your friend did?
Now you can say that Nike is a huge company and that they don’t need the profit but I think the problem is more regarding people profiting of stealing other companies ideas and designs, and these ideas and designs are what makes a company valuable.
Joshua Daniher At first: I would also not buy a fake pair. But big company’s like Nike etc always make full profit on hyped sneakers like the off whites. They usually sell out within seconds. It’s more the resell market which is affected. But otherwise I think people who buy fakes would not pay resell prices, but many would have copped at the release if they could. Small companies or big ones with higher stock numbers definitely lose profit by fakes.
I totally agree with you. What I don’t understand is that I don’t see to much Nike or adidas do to combat the efforts of fake sneaker production? They seemingly don’t care, I mean at least off white filed a law suit of Wish.com for selling fake off white products but I don’t think I ever hear about big companies like Nike doing anything to stop it even though they have all the money and power to do so! I also understand the need for scarcity to drive the sneaker market and sell out releases but I also think they could release more pairs for every hyper sneaker and instead of selling out in a couple hours they might totally sell out in a couple days, Nike gets more money as they moved for stock, the consumer has a real opportunity to get the sneakers they want and the resale market will still live as sneakers will only have a single release date like myself atm wants a pair of Union Jordan 1s and so I’m going to have to buy them resale as they’re not releasing again but if they released twice as many pairs originally I’d still have to pay resale at this point.