0:00 [Music] all right since we got an article that's about some sneaker news we got Norman in the house to Norman resident JK sneaker expert here something happened in Australia where a dude spent 30,000 how much did he spend on these shoes I think it was 20,000 us and like 30,000 UK wow 30k on a pair of shoes are they super rare the Yeezys did buy couple rare shoes and then yeah but was it one pair that was 20K yeah multiple pairs but finds out that they're fakes oh oh those Chinese but the catch here is that after they determine that they were fakes the police said there's nothing you can do about it and really here's why why cuz
0:52 Aussies don't care uh I think he bought it in the UK I bought it from someone in the UK I don't know what the law is out there but I guess cuz the kids 17 years old at the time um and they couldn't do anything cuz he's underage so he's like protected by the law from that so you can do cons if you're 17 in the UK I guess dude what is he Chinese is Joe's important question you know he Chinese well the Chinese made it you know he is I don't know any other group that can make fakes as good as Chinese you guys been on teu teu got the fakies my boy you know what they're not even actually fakes so one of the best ways that they make it is let's say there's a Nike Factory right what they'll do is they'll create a night shift train them how to make it
1:43 exactly the same way same Factory so let's say Nike contracts them to make like a th000 ████ shoes right then at night they make a th000 more same materials same Factory everything now you have 2,000 of mhm and then and then that one is just sold in the black market but it's the same shoe say so who's the scam is it Nike for marking it up would you pay 30k or 10K or 20K for these how much are those worth what the font that's not even the right Dior worth honestly those might be 12 to 15K wow would you pay that yeah but the so I had the lows of that and I paid 4 grand for that there you go that's a value invest it was for my wedding you wore it
2:34 I didn't cuz it didn't look good with the outfit so I just sold them for more how much what did you make five grand so I made a grand okay okay but that's why people are getting them though it's like you either display it or they're like Collectibles or but see my uncle Mark if he heard that those shoes are worth 15K and then he bought them for five he would only take 15K for them so you're not that good of invest so you said that um this scam has happened happen to you before as a sneaker reseller uh it kind of happens to everybody especially if you're new really yeah cuz you don't know how certain people are scammers have a certain way of getting you oh cuz you're buying like person to person not going on like a site or whatever no no no I'm buying like just like an offer up or something from someone or Craigslist something so so do they show you the real shoe on pictures and then send you the fakes uh I usually buy in person unless I know the guy now and when you
3:25 show up in person you can't tell that it's fake hard to tell yeah yeah cuz it comes from the same Factory yeah especially now it's a lot harder cuz they used to use a black light to scan it and you can see like markings but now you can't even see the markings sometimes and just everything is almost the same and there's just like one little thing that's off and you might miss it it's the same Factory to be fair though if you can't tell come on what's real and what's not it's not like it's not like you're trying to put your hand through and it's a ████ hologram you know what I mean able to tell the difference you know those those sneaker guys like at cool kicks that can slap it and by the the sound they know it's real or fake Is that real that's for the gram huh it's kind of real uh there's material difference is like very minimal but it's hard to tell unless you've done it often they make mistakes like if it sounds Hollow or if it sounds like a what is it like a watermelon or something they have like a weird fruit a
4:16 fruit scale yeah I I usually I check for like stitching marks and like and I inside the shoe because that's the harder part that people don't really check but I mean even me like I don't know it perfectly so you still get got sometimes I've gotten got yeah and then I would just sell it as a fake but I just have to tell them it's fake and you get buyers that want fake yeah but I lose money on that though what if you told them it's real and you got caught is that fraud I guess but but won't you get in trouble for selling fake shoes a lot of people do it and then they just disappear so like I I know a lot of people in the beginning they sold like hundreds of thousands dollars shoes of fakes to a whole bunch of people and then they just disappear they just move to a different country or if it's like a really big thing they'll move to a different country or some people just disappear and then you can't find them dude congratulations to them they they did it they made it that's amazing
5:06 that's the best con what about those people that deliberately Design shoes that look like knockoff dunks but there's like a little difference in the logo you know those uh like like Lauren Warren Lotus or something like that where they have like the Nike swo ons but like om Omie and a Hellcat like that guy it'll just be like very close to a dunk but like it's meant to look like a bootleg a lot of them are getting sued by Nike so crack it down on him now yeah can't be messing around got it is there like a shoe task force out there there should be one oh yeah STC shoes task force I think that's good there's like a there'ss and stuff to like check them but even the app sometimes get it wrong how do you become how do you become a shoe expert guy like a shoe connoisseur like a shoeman like how did you how did you start off I I just had a I had a
5:58 friend that was into shoes or he he had the back dooring and all that stuff so then he kind of told me about it CU I was like everybody else like damn this is hard to get I forget it oh so just start off as a hobby yeah and then a close friend of mine had a he had a connection and I was like okay might as well join him it is crazy how like authentic even fake stuff is cuz my dad he used to work at UH Commerce Casino you know when people have like bad beats or whatever they want to get back in so one of the dudes he was like ████ I need to get back in and then so he comes to my dad and he goes hey like can I sell my sell you my RO my dad's like oh sure so he takes a look at it and he's like dude this sh looks like really real so he just bought off them for I think like 2 Grand and it was supposed to be worth like 5 grand and then so my dad's rocking it he showed me oh I got this from this guy I'm okay cool and then the one day that the battery died he takes it in when they open it then they're like oh this is fake Dam and then he's like ████ cuz Rolex don't have batteries
6:50 but you can't even tell that it's uh that it was that yeah you can't even tell that it was fake um until they opened it and then when he so he ended up getting a real one and he put him side by side and you just can't even ████ they feel the same the weight everything and it's just crazy W sometimes the fix are actually better than the real on really I'm going to get a fake one D got a couple fake ones I'm like this is so much better than my real one how much are fake how much are like fake Ries usually are they still like a couple Grand like a good one get for like2 $300 there's tears there's tears you can get like a s█████ fake one you get like a level two fake one then you can get the one that's like you can't tell the difference give me all the fake ████ I don't care you don't care I don't I got bro I have pair of fake Yeezys and I brag to people and I'm like yeah I got them off teu for $112 but you want to know why it's bad why you might get like held up over it that's really embarrass don't worry guys it's fake like TSA or
7:40 some ████ no what if you get jacked off the street you got much then it was 200 bucks yeah at least you didn't lose 2,000 that's you know what's even worse you get held up and they're real yeah correct I don't see a downside butd you just gave us like a good argument for us no way why would you want to enter the culture of Rolex owning if your lifestyle doesn't rol no I don't want to be in the culture how dare you dude I I learned from my Chinese fake conour people that when it comes to certain things fake is always better than real like for example um purses or bags or St luxury goods like that you don't really want fake because those are like hand-me-downs those are like a family a so they're actually things that can also grow in value based off of culture style whatever right but like why the ████ are you paying like $600 for a Balenciaga like t-shirt
8:30 nobody gives a ████ about the fake clothes that's that's a ████ scam it's a white T-shirt you IDI get the ████ yeah exactly except for the W sweater guy but at what but at what price level does it become that because like well the thing is it's always it's always a perception thing right because like nobody else is going to know and if you're in that crowd too people don't hella question you but if you're rocking like a real Lou bag and you have a fake Louis t-shirt that's fine cuz you already have the access that makes everything like in a sense real like the clothing nobody's going to give a ████ about the actual clothing you know what I'm saying that sounds how much are Gucci slides do you know Norman that trend is gone Dam oh damn why you guys to say like that Norman you don't know sh that was our fashion guy until just now cuz I was saying I was like you
9:20 don't you don't buy the real Gucci slides cuz that's ████ dumb they're probably too expensive that was my point but now they're not even in they're not capable being a hand me down you go real what's the trend that is going on right now not this one right Gucci belts it's not that one I'm sorry that's not a good shoe right I mean oh my God objectively that's not a oh yeah yeah it's not it's a piece of ████ now we know he's an expert at least so now we know were you able to get one of those uh I didn't know when they released I knew about them but I didn't know when they released yeah nobody nobody did that's what makes them a rarity it's like a ████ Charizard hologram oh really yeah is it we'll see how that how that ages how is that $1,000 hoodie that nobody's going to buy Steve I get so far I can get one I can get pair of these for 80 bucks where's your nft pfp this was $300 Dude Looks like it you could you could probably
10:10 easily move one of those if you had it in your stock yeah I don't know if I have the market for that I'm sorry but I really don't you don't have to apologize do hey he he can sell fake shoes easier than he can sell that ████ not going to lie probably I like prob makes you feel good to try and jump on the bandwagon of dissing like a sick ass collab with Tinker Hatfield who I think you know who he is he does like the Jordan stuff yeah yeah I think you might know no that's dope no dude you're real you're a real wait what was the thing that was happening recently where on a actual website they were selling fake shoes and it was like Nike oh uh the Nike refurbished what is the Nike refurbished thing uh so they had their own Nike had their own refurbished thing where they try to sell their used shoes um or like
11:01 any used shoes that they got or like return shoes and I guess people were buying real ones and then just returning fakes oh and so they don't spend any money basically and they'll make all the profit on the shoe that damn and then Nike was selling it refurbished cuz I don't think they like legit check everything Nike doesn't have a guy that can check it better than the guy at cool kicks Melrose scary but they just they probably just look see I still congratulate the the middleman who's ████ doing that like that's a win that's what a lot of people think that's because people ordering from refurbish and getting fakes they're trying to sell it f damn from an actual Nike sanction so they they shut it down like a month after that came out but then again same thing though right if Nike can't ████ tell that it's fake is it fake I already told you guys how they do it it's at the same Factory honestly I think it is they they probably have a guy that you don't
11:51 need to think I had Chinese people that own factories that told me to ████ it's the same ████ I buyle ████ all the time like NFL jerseys dude they use the same exact Factory they just turn it on at night that's what that's what I heard yep you heard it from me they I heard from you they make the Nike logo like a little bit bigger that's what they did on fake I TR I bought one I know I got a fake Lebron James jersey when SLO and Swami was around they had some pretty bad fakes you know that's what I miss old I missed the blatantly fake in Chinatown I remember dudes becoming to school with the five stripe Adia yeah Adas yeah where the second D was an a yeah I like those man it's clear I miss I miss Spiderman Spider-Man was one of my favorite SP Spiderman was everywhere the swap me toys they're the best dude she
12:41 man that's the best dude she big old trap yeah shean Wonderman that was another one that was good who's Wonderman he's like a Superman knockoff yeah it's like wannabe Superman it's not wannabe Wonder Woman was it like a Wonder Years toy Spider Guy they didn't sell spider there was Spider Guy didn't s there was Catman there was man it was really good so what tell us again what is the hottest thing that you're trying to find in the shoe game right now I'm slowly getting out of it really why too toxic bowling's picking back up it's kind of like stocks right now everything's just down oh no one's buying and trading these ones that I'm wearing right now I got them for like 400 back then and I was cheap now it's like 200 brand new maybe brand new so
13:33 it's a good time to buy huh it it's a good time to buy and my shoe doesn't have a market huh you want anything that it doesn't that's literally what he said he said it doesn't have Market the whole Market's down buddy ████ is like all asset classes are coming down I wonder if watches are coming down too I think they are a little bit the luxury luxury stuff's going down right uh but people are still buying and selling like crazy like people are trying to get me into that instead watches yeah Rox you should get into watches probably have to get a gun huh did it yeah but and it I kind of want to just cuz it takes less space dude I had a ████ date just it's not even anything special right and it was like 4 years old and I went to to the jewelry shop and I was like hey how much would you take this for or like 7,300 I'm like oh God I got it for like 68 and
14:25 I'm like from the factory that made it at night at night at the same one and don't don't open it just just just clean it don't change your battery don't change your battery there's no battery there's no battery I mean there's no batteries I can buy luxury goods we basically for free and make more money on it why not yeah that's what I did with shoes yeah I bought all the stuff that I wanted wore it for a little bit and then I'm like how do you not scuff your ████ I have well I use like all the sprays and all that stuff it just kind of got annoying after a while cuz I have to like watch where I step cuz some of them they have like that bottom that the plastic thing you put on the bottom right yeah I don't do that cuz it feels weird have you seen Patrick mahomes's shoe collection I have not it's ████ crazy dude he has like every single Sho except for the air obvious I'm glad that you know the name though that like is a little bit like
15:15 saying would wouldn't need that one like you're a real friend though
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