Day in the Life of a Sneakerhead

This is the beginning of the journey of a "Sneakerhead". In this day in the life blog, you will see where we go and what exactly what we are doing to get him some shoes. The person I documented is Gregory Poole. He has been collecting shoes for about a year now and has about 14 shoes in his collection. Gregory's first pair of shoes were a pair of "Three Peats" 8's but does not have them anymore because he sold them to one of his best friends, who also collects shoes. The process that we are doing today is the tickets. The tickets usually are only on Monday's and Tuesday's of the week that the shoes come out. On Sunday, Gregory made a list of all the shoes stores in Durham and Raleigh and called each store to figure out when they were doing tickets with a collective of 15 different stores. In the picture to the right, is us driving to a store to begin the process.

This picture is of Gregory at DTRL getting tickets for the Air Jordan 'Space Jams' 11's that will release on Saturday, December 10. This process is just waiting to get the ticket from the cashier. During this process you have to give them your ID and the cashier writes down your name, your shoe size and your number on the ticket. 

 This is picture is of Gregory writing down what store he received the ticket from. The reasoning of him doing this is because we went to 15 different stores. We went to different stores to guaranteed the chances of him getting the shoes on Saturday. The ticket process is you going to get a ticket and they do what I said in the last paragraph and then the store pulls a couple of names out of the box, bucket or whatever they put the tickets and the store will call you to tell you what time to pick up the shoes that Saturday morning.

This is Gregory looking at the different styles of shoes that Footlocker has. Usually when you go to the mall with a sneakerhead, they almost have to go to every shoe store in the mall. Mainly to see what the store has and if there is a pair of shoes that is a "rare cop", meaning those shoes are not just anywhere. Like for instance, those powder blue sneakers are not in the other stores that we went to together. 

In this picture Gregory is looking at a pair of Saucony's. These are usually not as high price of a price like Jordan's. Those shoes run about $110 for a pair of shoes. This is called a "quality check". Gregory is inspecting how the shoes quality is. Meaning if the shoe was suede then he'll make sure that the shoe has a high quality of suede.

This is another picture of Gregory doing a quality check and also double checking how the shoe looks. Gregory also saw how the Saucony's run big and he said, "I would love to get them but they just look big on feet."