Sunday, June 25, 2006

****update****

...ok, I'm now stuck in a rather strange place.
On the one hand, I am more or less 100% sure that the trainers I bought are less than 100% genuine (assuming that my list of official numbers is accurate). The only thing is, on a like for like comparison, they are exactly the same as a real from the store Uk shoe right down to the text on the insides of the strips, the colours on the sole, the sole unit etc etc. OK, there are a few differences but I've noticed that the genuine shoes also have several differences depending on size and colourway (i.e different sole patterns, different swoosh tick, different sole (kids/adults).

As a whole, the trainers I have display the correct details according to itself
(i.e colour detail for the main colour/detail colour, correct sole detail for the size, correct detail colour for the trim colour).
From the looks of it, it is an amalgamation of two different existing colour schemes.
I ahve a sneaking suspicion that it is a factory shoe made without consent from Nike using their molds and patterns. As it is, and from the 10 odd jogging/running miles that I've put into them, they are made to the same standard as the originals and don't look to be likely to fall apart anytime soon, despite the possible weakness in a counterfeit 360 air sole. In fact, going by some of the bad examples of genuine early edition trainers I ahve, this pair is easily better made and finished than they are/were.

So what now?
Do I report the shoes (still waiting on a reply from Nike first...) as being fake and see what happens? Or just leave it and wear them into the dirt as i had intended anyway and save myself the hassle?
I know I said i was going to use this as an E-Bay test but I never expected the shoe to be made so well as I have already seen some pretty shockingly bad counterfeits.

Decisions Decisons.
What do you think?

monkey out (scratching his head)

1 comment:

drunken monkey said...

I sent an e-mail detailing a website that sold "factory" shoes at discounted prices to verify the operation as legit or not.

it's obvious that the e-bay shoes originated from that factory/store as they have the ones I've now got as well as several others also on ebay.