The horrors of the USSR are returning - in Moscow there are crazy queues for $300 sneakers
Huge queues lined up in Moscow outside Adidas stores, where new sneakers from Kanye West went on sale. The series is limited. One pair costs 17 thousand rubles (almost 300 US dollars). The famous Russian blogger Ilya Varlamov reports this in his LiveJournal.
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According to him, buyers, mostly young people, stand in queues for several days. At the same time, at the exit they immediately resell the sneakers for 27-30 thousand rubles. It is mainly the Chinese who buy shoes. Varlamov claims that in the Celestial Empire a pair of such cross-country shoes costs 50 thousand rubles.
“By the way, I don’t understand why these sneakers are so good? Well, one more thing. In China they are already actively making replicas, and such that they cannot be distinguished from the original! They cost only 3-4 thousand rubles. It’s probably a shame to buy sneakers for 30, and everyone will think that you bought a fake for 000 ;),” Varlamov wrote.
The horrors of the USSR are returning – Moscow sees frantic queues for $300 sneakers