SOURCING GUIDE
HOW TO ACTUALLY GET A RETRO BEFORE RESALE DOES
July 2026
Limited retros sell out in minutes and resale prices climb before most people even see the notification. Here is how we get ahead of it.
A hyped retro like this weeks AJ7 Miro moves in minutes. Bots and resellers move faster than a regular buyer clicking refresh, which is why so many people end up paying resale for something that had a retail price a few hours earlier.
Step one: know the entry system for each retailer before drop day, not on it. Some are true raffles where speed does not matter, some are first-come, and treating a raffle like a race or a race like a raffle is how people lose both.
Step two: accounts, saved payment, and shipping details ready in advance. Most losses at drop time come from being unprepared, not from being too slow.
Step three: spread entries across regions and retailers rather than betting everything on one raffle. A single-region approach caps your odds long before the shoe even releases.
Step four: verify immediately after a win or purchase. Superfakes flood the resale market within hours of every hyped drop, and a retail win is not automatically a safe one if it changes hands after the fact.
We run this process for every hyped drop so our clients do not have to guess. Drop a request and we handle the entries and the verification.