I had a bit of an obsession with runners back in 2005-2007…funny when you look at my collection now because I really don’t have any left – I sold them all. Anyway, I got these 3 pairs on discount…I don’t remember what they were all sold for, but as usual I probably made out OK…
There used to be this great little flea market near Alphabet City on the weekends in the LES. I think it took place in a school parking lot or something…but I always used to always find steals at this place. One day I found some OG Penny (Pippen) Foam Pros…size 11 or 12…in tip top..
Jordan hybrids. Why o why did anyone ever release these monstrosities? And why o why did I think I could make some money off of them? I think I bought each pair for around $20-30 and sold each pair for like $30-40…waste of time.
I love telling this story because it’s just so ridiculous and nobody ever believes me, but here goes… When I first moved to New York, I wasn’t up on the whole ‘pay ridiculous prices for limited shoes’ kind of thing. I mean, I figured people did it, I just didn’t know how many people were..
As I’ve said before, when I was in college, money was tight. I spent a great deal of my free time hustling and trying to figure out how to keep some cash in my pocket. Gas was only about $1.25-$1.50 at a time so I used to drive often to small jobs here and there…
Shortly after I discovered the joys of bidding on ebay back in 2000 – I discovered that I could SELL items too. Being a broke college student, I was always lookin for ways to make a buck. Back before the first internet bubble burst, there was a website called ‘hoopdreams’ and it was marketed as..
Somewhere around the year 2000, I kept hearing about this website ‘ebay’ and how you could find a lot of neat stuff on it for cheap. I used to collect rap CDs and would spend hours digging through CD stores trying to fill gaps in my collection. The first item I ever bought off ebay..