Sneaker Arbitrage: Why traditional brands are failing at it?

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7 min readNov 21, 2020
Photo by Stephan Schmid on Unsplash

I am not a sneakerhead, but from time to time, I do enjoy collecting a pair of coveted sneakers (if possible). I enjoy wearing my sneakers, and I am not in the market to resell my kicks. However, there have been moments where I could have traded my pair of fresh Nike x Off-White kicks for a very healthy profit. In 2020, thanks to quarantine and my new found obsession with…

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