lol

sneaker resale sites could refuse to deal in product until it's been out for at least a month and provide some breathing space for hyped releases but money

this way people pay inflated prices because the L on the retail drop is fresh when in reality resale prices might drop in a month when things calm down

if sites put a month-long (or even week-long) buffer on reselling shoes like these, the people just hyped on them for the moment might reconsider, but the people who really want them would still buy them

but they'd lose those in the moment sales when people will pay anything, so of course it won't happen. this shit is predatory.

it's the same reason people list shoes on eBay with a "GOT 'EM" screenshot instead of waiting to have shoes in hand. gotta get that resale money while people are still fiending and before they can take a breath and reconsider

my advice is, if you take an L today, do NOT pay resale this weekend. give it a week. give it two weeks. take a breath, consider whether these are something you really, really want. if it is, a week or two won't make much difference.

if you have to have them RIGHT NOW, it was never about the shoe at all. it's about that dopamine hit, it's about some weird need to be FIRST. well guess what. you're not first anyway. relax. wait.

you know why you didn't hit on UNION (or on SNKRS, or whatever it is)? you didn't hit because the people looking to resell hit instead. don't reward them twice. let them sit on them for a while. let THEM think too.

if you go cop on stockX or stadium the same day the shit releases at retail, all you're doing is reinforcing reseller habits. let them sit on their stock until next weekend. let them wonder if they're gonna be stuck with whatever they bought.

let that next drop hit and the one after that while they're still sitting on this one. you really want the Union IVs? then you're still gonna want them next week and next month. wait.