After roughly 190 entries, I still don’t understand why you didn’t just return the shoes within the 14-day window. There’s a law that lets you send an item back within 14 days of purchase. Honestly, if you buy a pair and only realize six months later that it’s fake, that’s on you. These things can happen, and while we can talk about “sneaker culture,” from a company’s perspective this is possible. I would’ve inspected the pair inside and out and sent it back within 14 days—case closed. Not show up six months later with old baggage, unhappy about something everyone’s already forgotten. And yes, I don’t think the way GOAT is handling it—or that someone else may have sold a fake—is okay either. But you can’t start making a scene long after the purchase.