All replicas are low quality product sold illegally by questionable dealers. There is no such thing as a "good replica". There is no such thing as a "Good replica site". There is no such thing as an honest "replica dealer". There is no such thing as an "AAAA", "AA", "B", or any other "grade" replica. Sure some are better than others, but the quality is always bad. The materials are very cheap. The dyes, glue, and chemical treatments are often the cheapest available, and are those that are illegal in most of the Western world. Keep in mind that said dealers have to pay dues to the Chinese Mafia and bribes to the police. They have to make a good margin to cover those expenses.
It is cheaper to buy the real thing and regular price. A replica will not last, and must be replaced every few months. The cost of maintenance on a lie is very expensive.
Shady dealers are easy to spot. First of all you can "whois" the site. Most shady dealers are only a few weeks, or months old. Shady dealers only register a web site for one year at a time. Almost all shady dealers accept Western Union. Almost all shady dealers do not accept Paypal.
Only a moron believes the replica reviews or the reviews on YouTube. The dealers post their own reviews.
It is illegal to sell knock offs, replicas. Nike holds the patent. Any website you find will be overseas to avoid patent and copyright infringement. No, these websites move around to avoid being detected. Nike as well as most companies have a division looking for these sites to close them down. You will get what you pay for which in most cases will be nothing. Don't go along with their phony comments by "customers" that are planted by the sites themselves.
Since replicas are illegal they tend to be mainly offered by Chinese sites more out of the reach of authorities, sites get replaced when they are sued by Nike. If you chose to go legit you might try one of the major sites.
FYI 95% of the sneaker sites people ask about on Answers turn out to be Chinese counterfeit sites, watch out...doing a domain name whois lookup more often than not exposes Chinese ownership.
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/in...
Here's the official Nike authorized store finder
http://www.nike.com/us/en_us/sl/store-lo...
Here are some large respected shoe sites:
Zappos.com (has free shipping and return shipping) did have some bad publicity after their customer database was hacked.
6pm.com ( Zappos owned clearance store)
Onlineshoes.com
Shoebuy.com
Shoemetro.com
eastbay.com (shares facilities with Footlocker)
factory413.com a small trendy California store used by celebrities
There are forums that are dedicated to sneakers, which can be educational.
http://solecollector.com/forums/
http://www.sneakerfreaker.com/forum/
http://niketalk.com
All replica sites are going to be some level of dodgy - it's an illegal good by definition.
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