Once the shoes are in the hands of the winners, they can do with them as they please. Hopefully there are some fans amongst the winners, but you bet there will also be some scalpers to.
I am a real BTTF fan, but to be honest: I would sell them, too. There's no reason to keep them and probably lose thousands of Dollars, if I can have V3s for $500-600. Original Nikes themselves are just replicas of the screen used sneakers.
How do you "lose thousands" if you won these? They are a collectable and worth thousands, but would you really sell them if you won them? I wouldn't.
If I keep something that I don't need actually and that is worth thousands, it's the same as losing thousands, no matter if I won it. It would be different if there wasn't good replicas out there. But I really like the V3s. Good enough for my collection.
How do you "lose thousands" if you won these? They are a collectable and worth thousands, but would you really sell them if you won them? I wouldn't.
To be honest the winner should better keep the shoes for few years, completly protected from the light and kept into a dry place, charge them once a month to keep the batteries alive.
The value of the shoes will increase with time. But to be honest when sneakerheads will figure out that the electronics are fragile (talking about the PL engine) i doubt that they spend 100K$ on a pair.
Link.?First pair has hit the secondary market. ugh.
Roland already answered it.... but another point is.... why not strike while the iron is hot and walk away with thousands of dollars? You could hold on to them and then in 20 years, we find the market for replica props has died out and they are not worth the cost of the materials. Don't think that can happen? I know die hard fans will argue that their precious franchise collectibles will never go out of style, but... Look at the Beanie Baby boom. Look at the 1990's Comic Book Boom. Look at the Animation Art Boom. People invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in collectibles that went belly up. So I would think about unloading them now while they are at their hottest with market value, and keep version 3's for myself.
We live in a material world and the desire to own the stuff (we like) we see in TV and films is only going to increase.
Things are only worth what someone is willing to pay. Hype certainly helps as we have seen with the V2s selling on eBay. Yes, sure some things drop in value. Other things just keep going up in value. Look at Vintage STAR WARS toys. These little action figures (my original 12 will be 40 years old next year) cost less than $4.00 each when i was a kid, and now can cost up into four figures for A graded. I paid an average of just $7 each for mine (not complete), but as a set on a display, they are worth so much more to the right person. I'd never sell them and if time travel was possible, I'd go back and stop that 14YO me from giving away that huge yellow bin full of figures, ships and playsets.
That is the thing about old toys and collectibles... people didn't know to save things in mint condition, so finding those in mint or high grade condition is rare and thus the high price tag. But every collector today buys in bulk to keep multiple "in the box" items and they are a dime a dozen and worthless. So if Nike floods the market with more in the future, supply vs demand will go down. But as I said, if you love them and you don't have a worry about the investment value then keep them. No one would blame you. I could live with the version 3 and I would sell these in a heartbeat and capitalize on the current market. :lol
If I could be sent back to 1977 with a few hundred bucks and I'd buy everything new off the shelf and keep it mint. Knowing my luck, the time travel gear would be just like in the Terminator, so nothing dead would go. I'd have to bury it in 1977 and hope it stays safe for next 39 years :facepalm.
I would be right behind you in line with full carts putting stuff away for my future. Then I would tell my dad to invest what money I might have had from birthdays that I put in the bank, into stock at those new companies Apple and Microsoft.
Hmm, good call. I'd do the property thing as well.
I wonder how far you could go before you created an alternate present reality?