People Shelling Out Thousands Of Dollars For Limited-Edition Donald Trump Gold Sneakers

[Tom of Temecula]

Limited-edition gold sneakers from former President Donald Trump are already selling for thousands on eBay. A pair of “Never Surrender High-Tops,” which sold out within hours after being launched at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia over the weekend, fetched $7,500 on the shopping website. Other final bids of the shoes on eBay show buyers paying anywhere from $4,000 to nearly $6,000.

One seller is even asking over $45,000 for a pair. Completed auctions show the shoes also selling for $5,750, $5,250, $5,000, $4,999, $4,399.95, and $3,999.98. Only 1,000 pairs of these “Never Surrender” sneakers were made. The initial asking price on the Trump sneaker website was $399. According to the website, at least ten pairs were autographed randomly by Trump.

“They’re for the go-getters who don’t know the word quit. With a standout gold finish and the ‘T’ badge, these kicks are for true Patriots. Wrapped with an American flag on the collar, they shout out to the brave and the free. The Never Surrender sneakers are your rally cry in shoe form. Lace-up and step out ready to conquer,” the website reads.

The site also has two other pairs — T-Red Wave and POTUS 45 — for sale at $199. The sneakers launched a day after Trump was ordered to pay $354 million following a ruling in his New York civil fraud trial. Trump was accused of committing financial fraud over decades, including inflating how much his properties were worth.

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https://hobbylistings.com/donald-trump-sneakers-ebay/

[RussBLib]

1. suckers!

...that China shit is going to disintegrate in no time, unless they keep them in a airless, locked vault on Funk & Wagnall's porch.

[Celerity]

17. US $450,017.19

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235436390941?itmmeta=01HQ5EHKZ054JJYT4VCF8ZGE1K&hash=item36d11a3a1d:g:5j4AAOSwTCZl0Tiu

[Liberal In Texas]

31. I'm guessing this is one of the prototypes or demo models. TFG had one they auctioned off to the ruskie.

The number inside this one on the tongue is '2' so they had at least that many made.

There might be a couple more but so far no proof they exist.

If these are ever shipped like promised I'll be totally amazed.

[Celerity]

32. at least 2 pairs exist

[Liberal In Texas]

34. I think that's what I said. n/t

[madaboutharry]

2. They are surely made like crap and are probably worth no more than $20.

This demonstrates the depth of derangement and sickness that has gripped the Trump cult.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Two words.

Money Laundering.

[bluestarone]

19. YES!!!

Who is watching the money?? We need more that one person, that's for sure!!

[Maeve]

29. More like pump and dump

Buy something hot, resell at a huge markup, liquidate before the marks catch on and are left with worthless crap they can't sell for a dime.

[dpibel]

4. Virtual sales of virtual shoes

I know of no evidence that any pair of these shoes exists in the real world.

There's a reason why they're delivering sometime in July.

This is pure speculation based on solid air.

As another poster in this thread noted: Another money laundry.

[niyad]

6. or august. or never, per the disclaimer.

[WarGamer]

8. That's not what money laundering is.

Money laundering, for example... is when a drug dealer takes money from drug sales... (dirty illegal money) and runs it through the Delicatessen that he also owns. The Deli will show sales of $XX of sales that never took place. The Deli will pay taxes on it and the cash becomes clean... ("legal" but not really)

[dpibel]

9. You are so cute!

Person has money he wants to get to Donald J. Trump.

Donald J. Trump offers "sneaks 4 sale!"

Person "buys" "sneakers" for $sixty zillion.

How, my good friend, is that not, shall we put it gently?, utterly analogous to what you propose?

It's kind of sad for a guy like you to lurk so hard and try so hard and fail so hard.

[DemocraticPatriot]

12. Because a money launderer ends up with some sort of value

from his efforts....

Those who vastly overspent on these shoes
only demonstrated a great way to DESTROY MONEY
which would be competitive with Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter!

NOBODY is going to pay anyone for these dirty-diaper-Don shoes
anything NEAR what they paid for them!

The money isn't now CLEAN--- it is now GONE!!!


lol

[Celerity]

16. some pairs do exist

I know of no evidence that any pair of these shoes exists in the real world.

[brooklynite]

22. I believe Trump had ONE demo model and raffled it off.

[Celerity]

24. there are two pairs in these pics

[Hugin]

30. A wild guess on my part...

I believe that TSF’s plan here is to borrow against the ridiculously inflated valuation of these shoes.

It’s exactly what he was doing with the real estate values.

[walkingman]

5. Twilight Zone stuff - nobody is that fucked up.

[WarGamer]

7. Some people don't understand the whole "sneakerhead" thing.

People buying these shoes don't give a RATS ASS about Trump.

A few years ago I got on a Yeezy mailing list. I'd get pre-order offers. You had to log into the website at a certain time and they'd be sold out in a minute.

If you were lucky enough to get them... you could throw them up on EBay for 3-4x what you paid.

Same thing here... just like the Trump trading cards, people were flipping them.

Has nothing to do with Trumps popularity or unpopularity.

[dpibel]

10. The NFTs were REAL TOO!

I just want to get out ahead of you on this, since that's got to be the next place you're going to travel.

I'll give you this: There's a lot of stupid money floating around out there.

But that doesn't actually mean that money laundering isn't money laundering.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. Who Is Laundering 6 Grand?

That just makes no sense. Laundering is used to put a veneer of legitimacy on money obtained in illegal activities.
Who would bother over 5, or 6, or 7 grand?
When people accused of added investors in a grossly overpriced Scottish golf resort of laundering money, that made sense.
This doesn't.

[WarGamer]

37. We agree... lots of stupid money flying around.

[tulipsandroses]

26. I agree. I think the guy that won the bid for 9K did it to impress trump

because of his own potential legal troubles. ( Whole nother story there about expensive watches and fraud and his buddy already arrested by the feds). But to get back to the point, people who are heavily into sneakers, are making a business bet. It’s like trading baseball cards I suppose. In this case, it’s like buying nazi memorabilia. Someone will pay a pretty penny for them in the future.

[DemocraticPatriot]

11. $7500 would pay for the rest of my shoes, my clothes, and

some other things, for the rest of my life!!!!

NO FUCKING WAY would I spend it for one pair of shoes,
even if they were TED KENNEDY MEMORIAL SHOES,
much less for something from Trump!

For those that did, well, maybe those shoes will be worth something in a thousand years,
but their value dropped faster than a new car being driven off the lot!

Good luck with that....

Unless they turn you on so much that you are going to spend the rest of your life masturbating upon them, I don't see how they get any value out of that purchase!

[Earth-shine]

13. Wonder what they look like after they've actually been worn for two weeks.

Lots of wrinkly gold.

[pfitz59]

14. These are 'resales', like Stub Hub

Trump only sees a percentage of the $399.

[Maeve]

28. There ya go---unless it is TSF and his cronies who are buying and reselling

Anybody remember Beanie Babies? Things are only worth what idiots are willing to pay for them. And values can drop rapidly.

[meadowlander]

15. Guess the "real Americans" have worked through their economic anxiety.

[tanyev]

18. LOL, Trump's gonna be mad he's not getting a cut of the resales.

[spanone]

20. Fools and their money.

[brooklynite]

21. nb: People are selling items they don't have and have never seen...

Delivery (if it happens) won't be for months.

[Johonny]

25. Biden economy sounds like its really good

[Freethinker65]

27. Kinda want to watch Rose Anvil cut them in half (with commentary)

[Emile]

33. Lot of them are easily conned. No wonder why we

get so many scammer calls.

[getagrip_already]

35. What makes me think.....

The majority of those eBay sellers are in places like India and will be long invisible if these things ever do ship.

They probably didn't even bother to preorder.