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WARNING!! THERE ARE LOTS OF FAKE NIKE ON THE INTERNET!!
For anyone wanting to know how to spot fakes! Heres my useful hints and tips on the best way to avoid being scammed by a fake seller. You can also use the free legit checker service in the forum at www.j600.com/fakes its totally FREE simply enter the seller ID or item number and an expert will confirm if the shoe is fake or authentic. There is also a LIST OF FAKE SELLERS and a FAKE NIKE AIR RIFTS PHOTO THREAD to show you photos of fake rifts to help you spot them.

Firstly, you should ALWAYS check a sellers feedback when buying on eBay! If they have a history of selling other fake goods there is a high chance the Nike Air Rifts they are selling will be fake too. There is an excellent FREE Negative Feedback Checker tool at www.goofbay.co.uk/tools this will sort a sellers feedback into negs/neutrals so can quickly spot trends without having to search through all the positive feedback to find the negatives. This tool will quickly help you spot a fake seller. I highly recommend using this tool to quickly identify fake sellers, it can also expose other trends/problems such as slow shipping etc.
SPOTTING A FAKE / COMMON GIVEAWAYS
FIRSTLY - SIZE: ALL of the original mens Nike air rifts should be UK whole sizes, nike dont make rifts in half sizes in mens UK sizing (apart from sizes below uk5.5). If you see mens rifts size uk7.5 for example, these are fakes! Womens rifts are the opposite, all womens rifts SHOULD be half sizes. If you see womens colourways in a UK6 for example, these are fakes!
USE THIS SHOE SIZE GUIDE IF UNSURE AT www.j600.com/sizing
SECOND - BOX LABEL: A common giveaway of a pair of fakes is the box label. ALWAYS ask eBay sellers for a photo of the box label. Most eBay fake sellers are aware that the labels aren't right and usually try to hide the label or not provide a photograph of the box label. Fake labels are easy to spot as the print quality isnt as good as an authentic pair but also the colourways/codes are usually wrong too. Even the shap of the label will stand out. Authentic nike labels come off a machine in the factory therefore are perfect in shape and size. Fake labels are usually uneven as they are cheaply printed and hand cut then glued to the box by the fakers. ASK THE SELLER FOR A PHOTO OF THE LABEL - IF THEY REFUSE TO GIVE YOU A PHOTO - BE VERY CAUTIOUS!!
Other things to look out for...
1. MATERIAL. 90% of fakes are produced in shiny, non nike material. They can look extremely cheap and most of the time they are produced in a very tacky nylon kind of cloth.
2. SHAPE. Due to Nike having specific 'moulds' creating a fake nike air rift will obviously prove to be a difficult task for these fraudsters, as the shape is extremely distinctive and quite complex. Instant visual giveaways include>> Uneven width, length, size of the nike tick, chalky fat soles, etc etc. Take a look at some fake photo's then get a pair of real rifts out and the definition between the shape of the 'genuine rift' and the 'fake' is extremely noticable.
3. NIKE TICK. Usually a big give away, some people even get it so wrong the place it at the side and im talking very side of the shoe lol. The Nike tick on fakes is in my opinion impossible to get 100% accurate. Remember doodling on your pencil case at school, you'd pencil in that nike tick but it was never SPOT ON, was it!? Also watch out for the length of it as alot of fakes have long nike ticks which are oversized.
4. THE SOLE. I have known people who have bought fakes which the soles have fallen to bits and some have even been filled with expanding film! Nike use high quality rubber soles, fakes tend to look the same in a sense yet if you look closely they are usually too thick from the bottom upwards at the side of the shoe and the overall look of them is very dull flat cheap rubber looking. Also to have a pair in the flesh and compare soles would be an instant giveaway.
5. COLOURWAYS. Probably the biggest giveaway. You can get all kind of fake unresearched colourways that make fakes stand out from a mile, ROYAL BLUE/WHITE. On j600 there is a list of every produced colourway, so refer to that when looking into purchasing rifts. Also if your not sure email the seller and ask them for the accurate colourway of the shoe, this way 9 times out of 10 you will know straight away.
6. ORIGINAL BOX and SOCKS. Although a lot of sellers sell rifts, new and pre-worn without the original box you will find fakes come unboxed, or in the case that they would come boxed you'll find it is a template box, which basically is a plain nike box with a square on the side in which to write in with permanent marker. AVOID sellers who have rift socks in packets (another sure sign of fakes).
7. STRAPS. Most of the fakes i have seen have shabby straps. They are either just too thick, too thin, or have rubbish latex pathetic material at the end of them.
8. SELLERS FEEDBACK. Email other buyers, ask for pictures. A common seller on eBay of fakes is...RETRORIFTS. He sells white/chianti, a very rare and expensive rift. He sells these unboxed using catologue pictures, the actual shoes are pathetic fakes. I only found this out by emailing a buyer of his and asking him kindly for photo's.
9. PRODUCT CODE. Every pair of nike air rifts produced are different. Every pair are logged by nike and come with 1...a product code, 2...a size and release date code. The release date code is a 6 digit number based above the size inside your shoe on either...material or white plastic material. Look above the size inside your rift and you will find a 6 digit number with the first two digits being the release date of the actual colourway. For example 007437>>year 2000!...040944>>>year 2004! 974626>>>year 1997.
Hope this information helps everyone. If not dont forget the FREE legit service at j600.com where people will help you spot fakes if you post the item number. j600.com









