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Jun 17Liked by Mike D. Sykes, II

I’ve had a few pairs of “reps” over the years - sometimes it’s a shoe style that’s prohibitively expensive on resale or something that’s significantly cheaper than retail. I would say that of the fake Js I bought 80% of them were as good or in some cases better quality than what Jordan Brand actually sold.

Nike and JB have huge, documented quality issues and while I don’t care if they shut the counterfeiters down, they can’t expect us to keep paying for a premium item with glue marks, wonky shapes or upside logos.

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Yeah, I agree with you on your last point! I can't endorse buying and wearing reps, but I do believe that the QC issues we've seen over the years is a major contributing factor to people turning to counterfeiters.

If the product was better, we wouldn't be here.

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