[flameboy54]

can any of your guru's comfirm these are authentic or not?? (are there even fake RUN DMC's on the market??) thanks!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...%3AIT&rd=1[/code]

[woody]

There is fake everything on the market!


They look kosher to me though.

[olstar]

did the run dmc ones say JMJ one the back?

if yes, then they look genuine to me buddy!

[olstar]

yes they did

bid away!

[dj_wildthing]

Too be honest I'm NOT 100% sure they're authentic, mainly because of two things:

1. the laces look too fat, the DMCs come with 'skinny' laces
2. I don't see the Run DMC lace tags on any of the pics

Also, the guy is selling a pair of Adi Dasslers that are definitely fake, so I would be really careful if I was you.

Try asking the seller if he can send you a pic of the lace tags, they should be black with the Run DMC logo in red and white. Most fakes come with ordinary lace tags that has the trefoil on them.

Hope this helps!



PS: welcome aboard

[olstar]

Ooo well spotted..

let us know what he comes up with mate

[dj_wildthing]

You can also ask the seller if the tongues have rubber bands inside, the original Run DMC model have that so you can wear them without the laces.

[olstar]

yeah, my ultrastars are like that

they bend wierd when your walking if you have no laces in them, well, the ultrastars do

[dj_wildthing]

yeah, my ultrastars are like that

they bend wierd when your walking if you have no laces in them, well, the ultrastars do

The DMCs do that too...LOL... too bad really, as I would prefer rocking them without laces, but it just doesn't look good IMO.

[olstar]

yeah, dunno how run dmc pulled it off all these years

[dremuchij]

...like the shoes i bought off ebay :cry: Run-DMCs are amongst the shoes targeted the most (out of the 35th Music series Superstars) for replication by the scam-factories of the third world.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...9309021069

Please bear with me - I'm new, I have a lot to say and I've spent a lot of my time on this and not much else (I might need a life?)...

1) The seller has no buyer feedback whatsoever.
2) They haven't stated they are real.

These are just commonsense rules of eBay.

3) They look just like the fake ones i've bought.

Also, the shoes have a "squashed" look (maybe from having been mass-shipped?), a thing which quality Superstar material isn't well known for (correct me if I'm wrong). The seller hasn't really taken care of these kicks (why have they taken the laces out of the packets?), another indication something is off.

The seller I bought from made his ebay feedback private the second he received a negative from another buyer (he had built up 100% positive feedback thru smaller sales and real non-rare shoes). I'd been able to read the comment just before it disappeared - It had stated that the rare Captain Tsubasa's they'd purchased were fake.

When the shoes arrived, I compared them to the previous two 35ths I had purchased (Roc-A-Fella and Etched Black) and the difference in the quality of material was evident. I had PayPal refund the full amount, which the seller cheerfully obliged with little protest (just an e-mail asking why I was unhappy, to which a flamed him for selling fakes - I didn't hear from him again). The fact of the matter was the manufacturers had faked everything (the box images had been photocopied, the tags looked real - maybe taken from real kicks?) right down to the "tissue paper" inlay, which looked real except when placed next to a real inlay.

Before my complaint and the negative feedback, he stated all his kicks from 100% authentic. This is conspicuously missing from all his new listings (almost all buy it now).

Sorry for the long post - I am typing all this shiat in the hope that someone doesn't make the same mistake I did and almost lose 140 GBP in a single transaction. I'll post some of my own pics when I can borrow my sister's digital camera. Until then, keep frosty people. Dre out.

[streak]

well said dre.. and welcome to the forum..

[olstar]

Woh shit dude!

Looks like there is lots of areas of faking that we havent covered..

did you get to keep the fake run dmc ones?

we need to do a side by side comparison..

i mgiht contact ebay you know....

[dj_wildthing]

Yeah, I must admit some of the fakes are getting harder to spot. The first DMC fakes that appeared on eBay were soooo easy to spot, metal eyelets, 'my adidas' instead of JMJ etc. etc., but the DMCs in this auction actually look pretty good except for the fat laces and the missing tags.

Welcome aboard Dremuchij!

[dremuchij]

yeah I did get to keep the the so-called 'Superstars' and some of the box. I kinda hurriedly (without thinking, really) threw away the fake tags and inlay (although like I said, they look identical to the real thing so they might actually be).

I actually might have been fooled from up close (Obviously the listing's shots were able to con me ) except the flaws are so evident when placed next to a real pair...

Hopefully I can do the shots this afternoon, although I have been busy with my mid-semester tests/assignments. Then again, screw my tertiary education! Shelltoes are more important!