At the end of last month, Flight Club, a multi-channel retailer focused on Sneaker, announced that Max Levchin, the co-founder of PayPal, a mobile payment company, founded Affirm in 2013.

In addition to the US market, Sneaker second is active in Asia's Japanese market. The market also has an online platform similar to Flight Club, founded by Japanese Daishin Sugano Kanno Onobu.

Online paction App Goat was launched in 2010. Currently, it has more than 25000 double Sneaker data. Goat also operates in the form of commission. The commission rate is 9.5%, far below 20% of Flight Club.

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And the Goat market also has dozens of Sneaker online pactions, data, and information applications such as SUPPLIED, Shoefax, Snickets, Campless, Unlaced and so on.

Big spark.

The initial model of Flight Club is vintagekicks.com, a community website based on Sneaker, which has a large number of Sneaker fans, including collectors and large numbers of users.

As a result, there are many trading opportunities, but most of the community users traded at eBay at that time.

Then, in 2005, a Sneaker focused entity was established in New York's 254 Greene Street, and then expanded rapidly. The store was moved to 812 Broadway, and another new store was also set up in Losangeles, along with online e-commerce websites and App.

Flight Club mainly sells brand limited edition products such as Nike Nike and Air Jordan, New Balance new brun, many sellers come from the Sneaker collectors and resale experts who have been active in eBay, so the sales products of the platform have been widely promoted by the Sneaker enthusiasts. It is said that the current turnover of Flight Flight is as high as 100 million US dollars, which accounts for about 1/3 of the US online market. It is the largest online professional market. It may be second only to the company. According to the data of the paction, the auction of the website in 2005 is worth 15 thousand US dollars.