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How Much For Canvas PF Flyers? Or Suede Puma Clydes?
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It has come to this: Limited-edition sneakers are so huge a deal that those who are really into it -- and especially those who like to buy them and flip them on eBay for a big profit -- will spend hundreds of dollars to buy sneaker-buying bots which automate the process of jumping into the queue online for the latest hot shoes, the same way ticket scalpers use bots to circumvent the process of buying concert and sports tickets online. I really don't understand the allure of limited-edition sneakers (although as someone who's worn the same high-top Chucks for 50 years and who'll stick with the same model running shoe for a long time out of fear that another brand won't fit right, I'm not the best witness), but it sucks that people who ARE into it are often shut out of buying them at retail price by speculators (and let's not even get started about the mall queues that have resulted in violence). (CNBC via Yahoo! Finance)
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