![]() In a statement to Complex, StockX defended its process for verifying sneakers. Reseller Roy Kim says he received fake 'Mocha' Air Jordan 1s from StockX. Until he realized over half of the pairs he’d purchased from StockX were showing as fake on popular apps used to check shoes’ authenticity. His plan was to take advantage of a dip in the market and resell them for profit. In an interview with Complex, Kim says that he’d bought a batch of 62 Air Jordan 1s from StockX last year as an investment. The same transcript features the revelation that another batch of fake sneakers Nike’s focused on in the lawsuit came from Zadeh Kicks, the infamous Oregon reseller whose Ponzi-scheme-style sneaker business collapsed in 2022. While Nike’s letter omits the reseller’s identity and many of the details about the sneakers he bought, a December transcript filed in the case docket names Roy Kim as the third-party consumer who bought the 38 fake shoes. The letter says that Nike contacted the reseller to inspect the sneakers from StockX and confirmed that they were fakes. The letter from Nike’s lawyers explains that between March and July 2022, a sneaker collector and reseller bought 38 pairs of sneakers from StockX only to later discover that they were counterfeit. A heavily redacted document submitted by Nike lawyers on Wednesday breaks down in some detail the source of the fake sneakers Nike has referenced in the lawsuit. Nike’s challenge has no merit and clearly demonstrates their lack of understanding of the modern marketplace.Nike’s lawsuit against StockX, which began last year as a dispute over how the reselling platform was using Nike trademarks for its NFTs and has since evolved to include serious challenges to the authenticity of products traded on StockX, took its latest spicy turn last week. This latest tactic amounts to nothing more than a panicked and desperate attempt to resuscitate its losing legal case against our innovative Vault NFT program that revolutionizes the way that consumers can buy, store, and sell collectibles safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Nike’s latest filing is not only baseless but also is curious given that their own brand protection team has communicated confidence in our authentication program, and that hundreds of Nike employees – including current senior executives – use StockX to buy and sell products. StockX released the following statement, “We take customer protection extremely seriously, and we’ve invested millions to fight the proliferation of counterfeit products that virtually every global marketplace faces today. Following the claim that the sneakers were fake, Nike visited the reseller and confirmed that 38 pairs of sneakers received by the customer from StockX had indeed been fake. An exciting fact is that since the scandal in November 2022, the company has removed the word “authenticated” from its site. ![]() However, it turned out that 38 of them were fake.” The court document reveals that StockX had “authenticated” the shoes. He bought many University Blue, Mocha, and Hyper Royal Jordan 1s on StockX when the price had dropped with the intent of holding and flipping later. ![]() Visit for more informationĪccording to Nice Kicks, they exclusively spoke to the reseller involved in the Nike vs. ![]()
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