When you buy a pair of vintage sneakers online, you put a lot of faith into the people that will handle those sneakers as they make their way to you. Unfortunately, those people don't always respect the value of ancient footwear.
17-year-old sneaker collector Dylan Ratner learned that the hard way. In an interview at Complex where he discusses his incredible collection of Jordan 1s, Dylan recalls a horror story about having a couple of original Air Jordan 1s from 1985 wrecked in transit.
"They were 'Purple' and 'Green' Metallics that I bought off of a collector. They were from outside of the U.S., and when 1s get old, the collar and padding gets crunchy from drying out," he explains. "Customs thought something was sketchy with the inside of the collars. So, they cut into the insides of them to check what the material was. Once they determined that the material was OK, they taped over them."
Dylan told the person who sold the sneakers to him about the incident, but it was out of his hands at that point, and he wasn't able to get any sort of refund.
Read more about his impressive hoard of Jordan 1s here.
