A company making fake Air Jordans is usually able to do so by purchasing molds that are stolen by a Nike employee and using the mold to make mass Air Jordan Fusion 5 quantities of the shoes. The similarities end there, because the fake Air Jordan 9 company will use lesser quality materials compared to those Nike uses. As a result, fake shoes will often cave in to one side and have little to no traction. The famous Air Jordan or “Jumpman” logo is always stitched on authentic shoes, while it is often printed or painted on fakes. Fakes may smell like rubber cement, while authentics will have the more traditional “new sneaker” smell that anyone who regularly buys athletic shoes will recognize.

When fake Air Jordans are visually compared to real ones, even Air Jordan Fusion 4 in pictures, it’s usually very easy to tell them apart. Fake shoes usually have a lower top than the authentic ones. Air Jordan CDP The shoes’ color is often duller than that of authentic shoes. Fake shoes will look “thinner.” The Jumpman logo may be backwards and in the wrong location. Nike’s official “Jumpman 23” website offers pictures of every Air Jordan version for comparison. If a vendor offers no pictures or from Nike LeBron 11 only one angle, there’s a good chance it is selling fakes.

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