INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
is an increasingly aggravating issue for genuine buyers.Not just purchasers, either, but said retailers are also suffering a great deal
countermeasures, while trying not to harm (or annoy) genuine buyers with those defenses (such as CAPTCHA tools, as an obvious example)
Not to mention making the sneaker brands look even more expensive.Security firm PerimeterX has penned an extensive blog post on just how
active these sneaker bots remain, and how easily they are used.Looking at two new pairs of popular shoes which hit shelves on November 2,
and breaking down sales from a number of prominent shoe retailer websites, PerimeterX found that at launch time between 55% to 68% of all
purchasers were automated bots.So people who actually want to buy sneakers to wear them are seemingly in the minority, outmuscled by the
Then you immediately check the third-party sites to see an absolute ton of tickets which profit-spinners are already trying to flog in their
While in the US, the Bots Act of 2016 combats the usage of bots with regard to concert tickets, there is no such protection for shoes
tool called CyberAIO by Cybersole
the sneakers they want to buy from a menu of upcoming drops, set a budget, and then sit back
Android and iOS apps.The low-risk, high-reward world of sneaker reselling is becoming more and more popular then, and indeed even the apps
like CyberAIO are very expensive as a result.Despite retailers making all manner of resourceful moves in the past to try to defeat the
