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Ludicrously expensive sneakers

Posted by 1Eyed Eel on January 17, 2019 at 2:03pm in Other

My teenage son just blew all of the money he's been saving on a pair of $400 sneakers.

More amazing was that they actually retail for nearly double that he just happened to luck out finding a cheap pair in his size online.

When did $800 sneakers become a thing?

Why do kids want sneakers that look like spaceships?

How can I get into this business?

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    • 1Eyed Eel January 17, 2019 at 3:53pm

      Very possibly...

  • Longfin Eel January 17, 2019 at 4:59pm

    They obviously have rockets in them. I saw those in cartoons in the 1970s.

  • Mr 'BringBackFitzy' Analyst January 17, 2019 at 6:26pm

    I could have got it for him for $50 ;)

  • Adam Magrath January 17, 2019 at 6:28pm

    I do a fair bit of running so I've bought quite a few pairs of shoes. Hoka's are the go I reckon - very comfy, like running on marshmellows it said in a review I once read. Never spent $400 though, a bit over half that is my limit. 

  • the eggman January 17, 2019 at 9:37pm

    In my day we didn't have sneakers, we would find two week old road kill roos scrape em off the road and tie them to our feet with rusty fencin wire.

  • Preacher January 17, 2019 at 10:37pm

    My brother regularly buys Yeezy sneakers, which are released by Kanye West, he then resells them for at least 3-4 times more than he bought them for because they are all limited releases. He has on occasion got $3000 for sneakers he spent $200-300 on. I dont understand it personally, but good on him for finding a way to profit from it I guess.

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      • Preacher January 17, 2019 at 10:52pm

        Then there are lots of rich kids with indulgent parents that want all the gimmicks, the more expensive the better it must be.

    • 1Eyed Eel > Preacher January 18, 2019 at 4:10am

      This is what he bought, actually! I can be glad then he didn't pay $3000!

      • Preacher > 1Eyed Eel January 18, 2019 at 11:35pm

        Haha, did he buy them off a guy in Sydney? Be a bit funny if it was ends up being my brother :)

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