Deadstock is a resale marketplace where no pair ships until a human authenticator has it in their hands. We pull stitch counts, weigh the soles, read the factory codes, and black-light the box before your order leaves the building. Buy the rare ones without the pit in your stomach — if it isn't legit, it doesn't ship, and you don't pay.
The pairs that cross our table — every label, every grail
What hand-checking every pair actually adds up to
Anyone can post a photo of a clean pair. The fakes look clean too now — the factories got good. So we don't trust the photo. Every order routes through a person who knows the silhouette down to the stitch, with the reference library and the tooling to settle it for real.
Fakes nail the swoosh and miss the stitch. Our authenticators count stitches per inch, check the toebox glue line, weigh the sole against the factory spec, and read the heel-tab font for the right era. The details counterfeiters skip are the ones we look at first.
The style code on the box has to match the size tag, the production date, and the country of manufacture for that exact colorway and drop. One number out of place and the pair is held. We keep a reference library of real tags going back years to check against.
UV ink on the box label, font weight on the size tag, the texture of the suede, the smell of the glue. We use the same tools the factories use and the instincts you only get from holding tens of thousands of pairs. The machine flags it; a human calls it.
Brand-new and never-tried-on gets the Deadstock grade. Worn pairs are scored on a clear scale with daylight photos of every crease, scuff, and yellowed sole — flaws shown, not hidden behind a flattering angle. You know exactly what's landing on your feet.
A slice of the thousands of pairs that cleared authentication and went live. Every listing here passed the full check, carries its grade, and ships with the green tag still on it. When a size sells, that size is gone until another verified pair lands.
Brand-new, never laced, in the aged-replica box with the vintage Nike sticker intact. Cracked-leather finish exactly to spec, stitch count matched, box label clean under UV. The retro everyone wanted and almost nobody got at retail.
Reversed swoosh stitched, not glued — the first thing fakes get wrong, and the first thing we check. Backwards Cactus Jack branding correct, sail midsole unmarked, hangtag present. One of the most faked silhouettes alive, verified the hard way.
SPLY-350 mirrored print aligned, Boost density correct to the touch, heel-tab weave tight and even. Real Boost squeaks; the fake foam doesn't — ours does. Box code matches the restock batch to the digit.
The most-faked shoe on earth, which is exactly why it gets the most eyes here. Panel shape, perforation spacing, and the bone-white midsole tone all checked against a confirmed retail pair. Clean, simple, and genuinely real.
Made-in-USA tongue tag and ABZORB heel verified, light wear graded honestly — faint outsole rub, no creasing, suede still plush. A near-mint daily grail at a fraction of a deadstock pair. Creases photographed, nothing hidden.
Double everything — tongues, swooshes, laces — and every doubled element stitched and aligned the way the collab actually shipped. Layered construction is a nightmare to fake well; this one isn't faked at all.
A clean legit check falls apart fast if the pair shows up crushed, the buyer ghosts, or the seller waits a month to get paid. So we own the parts between the listing and your front door — packing, payouts, the box itself, and the people who'll actually answer.
Every authenticated pair ships with the Deadstock verification tag still looped to the laces. Cut it when you wear them; keep it on if you might resell. It's proof the pair cleared our check, and it travels with the shoe.
We double-box so the original packaging arrives crush-free, wrap the box to keep corners crisp, and never slap a shipping label on the shoe box itself. Box condition is part of the value — we protect it like the pair inside.
Ship your pair to us, and the moment it passes authentication your payout is released — no waiting on the buyer's mood or a delivery scan. List free, track every check and payout from one dashboard, and never eat a chargeback. We only take a cut when it sells.
Verified pairs from sold-out drops, listed minutes after release by sellers who actually got through the raffle. No proxies, no captchas, no clicking 'add to cart' against ten thousand bots. The grail's already here — just pick your size.
Message us about a pair and you'll talk to someone who knows the difference between a 2019 and a 2022 release — not a script. Sizing questions, condition details, a second look before you buy. Real answers from people who collect too.
“I'd been burned twice on other apps before I found Deadstock. Copped a pair of Lost & Founds sight unseen, green tag still on them, dead-on legit. First marketplace I'll buy a grail from without sweating it.”
“As a reseller I move a lot of pairs, and the payout-on-pass thing is everything. I ship it, it clears, I'm paid the same day. No chargebacks, no buyer ghosting me three weeks later. That's the whole game.”
“They caught a super-fake I genuinely could not tell from real — held it, called it, refunded me on the spot. The fact that they catch the ones I'd miss is exactly why I keep buying here.”
Buyers pay one clear authentication fee per order — that's the human check, the green tag, and the counterfeit guarantee. Sellers list free and only pay when a pair clears and sells. No subscriptions, no insertion fees, and the number you see at checkout is the number you pay.
One authentication fee, every pair covered.
Our seller fee — only when it sells and clears.
Drop the whole collection. We do the rest.
It never reaches you. If a pair fails authentication it's pulled before it ships, and you're refunded in full — no argument, no restocking fee. In the rare event anything slips past our check, the counterfeit guarantee covers you for a complete refund, every time.
Deadstock means brand-new and never worn — never laced, never tried on outside, original box and accessories intact. Pairs that have been worn are clearly marked and graded on a condition scale with daylight photos of every crease and scuff, so you always know whether you're getting new or used.
Once a seller ships their pair to us, it goes straight onto the verification table. Most orders clear authentication and ship to you within 48 hours of arriving. You'll get a notification when it passes and a tracking number the moment it leaves the building.
List your pair free, and when it sells we send you a prepaid label to ship it to us. The moment it passes authentication, your payout is released — you're not waiting on the buyer or a delivery scan. Our seller fee is 9.5% plus a flat $5 per pair, taken only on a completed sale.
It's the Deadstock verification tag, looped to the laces of every pair that clears our check. It's your proof the shoe was authenticated in hand. Cut it off to wear them, or leave it on if there's a chance you'll resell — the tag travels with the shoe and means something to the next buyer.
Because every pair is one-of-one and authenticated to order, all sales are final once a pair passes our check — so size carefully and message us first if you're between sizes. Returns are only ever for an authenticity problem, which the counterfeit guarantee already covers in full.
Shop pairs that already cleared the check, or send us your collection and let us turn it into sold. Free to browse, free to list — and never a fake on your feet.