
When Kanye West's Nike Air Yeezy 2s hit shelves, Mad Magazine ripped the rapper and his $245 sneakers. Mad blasted Yeezys as "an easy, convenient way to show the world that you're a superficial, low-functioning [d-bag] with way too much money." It further sneered at the fact that an eBay seller pre-sold a pair for "over 350 percent of their retail value."
Ultimately, someone on eBay paid $93,000, or nearly 369 percent of the original retail value. Business Insider noted that even when the prices didn't climb to Everest levels, they reached an altitude between $2,000 and $7,000. Once again proving the potency of scarcity, it seems that with only 3,000 to 5,000 pairs of Air Yeezy 2s available to the public, instead of attempting to pay top dollar at a store that might sell out, some especially desperate buyers paid over the top dollar to a reseller.
While these represent those most exorbitant examples from the Yeezy resale market, they're far from the only ones. As Footwear News details, in 2018, sneaker consignment store Stadium Goods allowed customers to purchase the then-unreleased Adidas Yeezy Boost 700 V2 "Static" for $1,690. That's utterly mad.
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