Author name: nik pick

I landed in Las Vegas for SneakerCon with a Pelican case containing five pairs of sample Jordans worth $12,000. The […]

I pulled up to my climate-controlled unit at 6 AM, ready to grab stock for a local trade show, only

It’s the meme that isn’t funny when it happens to you. You leave your Off-White Chicagos by the door. Your

I bought a “Deadstock” pair of 2004 Jordan 4s. They looked perfect. I took my first step in them, and

I have a pair of 1985 Jordan 1 Chicagos. I bought them for $500 ten years ago. Today they are

I came home to a shattered back window. My TV was there. My laptop was there. But my sneaker wall—specifically

My sump pump failed during a heavy rainstorm. 200 pairs of sneakers were stacked in the basement. The shoes themselves

I sent a pristine pair of Travis Scott fragments to a buyer on eBay. They filed a return claiming “item

I sold a pair of Red Octobers for $18,000, dropped them at UPS with the pre-paid label, and watched them

I opened a box of 2011 Jordan 11 “Concords” last week—shoes I had kept on ice in a climate-controlled unit