Most people meet the Air Jordan 1 in red. The Court Purple takes the same white-and-black OG blueprint and swaps that red for a deep, almost regal purple. It is a colourway everyone already knows, and yet right now it is sitting quietly in the listings instead of climbing. A known grail that has gone calm is exactly the kind of thing I keep half an eye on.
The 555088-500 is the 2020 Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG: purple leather on the toe, the heel and the tall collar, a clean white side panel, a black Swoosh and the black Wings logo on the ankle. Black laces, white midsole, a purple outsole underneath. All leather, nothing fussy. If your rotation already leans on a Bred or a Chicago, this one reads completely differently from three metres away without ever being loud about it. It is a Jordan that works under straight jeans just as well as under a tracksuit.
Sixteen listings, and all of them in euros
On Solezilla.com we are tracking sixteen active listings on this pair today, a handful of which are the same shop running separate EU and DE storefronts, so call it a dozen-plus real shops. And every single one is priced in euros. There is not one pound or dollar listing on the Court Purple at the moment, so if you are shopping from the UK or the US, treat any number below as a starting point and add shipping and import on top before you decide it is cheap.
The floor is the interesting part. StockX sits at the bottom around €143, with Sneaker Ask and Side Kicks just behind at roughly €162. That €143 is about €37 under the €180 retail these shipped at, which for a wanted Jordan 1 is a genuine gap rather than the usual dead-stock discount. From there the field climbs fast: Noirfonce near €180, Stadium Goods around €185, Collect District €189, Klekt and Sneakeregeer just under €200, then Mentastore, Farfetch and House of Sneakers in the €220s and €230s, up to Hypeneedz and Geturbrick near €255 at the very top. Almost all of it is resale and consignment, because regular retail let this one go a long time ago.
The win is that one listing, not the field
So the spread runs more than a hundred euros for the same shoe, and that tells you where the value is. Above €180 you are simply paying a resale premium on a five-year-old colourway. The real buy is that StockX floor, and maybe the two listings nipping at it. Check your size first, though: at this kind of price the common sizes move quickly and the odd ones sit, so the sharp number you see may be attached to a size that is not yours.
For the record, the hype has not evaporated. On Solezilla.com the Hypescore reads 50, which lands it in the SEISMIC band on our scale: momentum building, clearly wanted, not red-hot. For a 2020 colourway that is a healthy sign, because it means the Court Purple still moves, it just is not throwing off enough heat to drag the whole field upward overnight. That is the moment a dip like the current one can actually stick around for a bit.
Put all sixteen side by side on the Court Purple page, filter to your own size, and you will see in one glance which shop has the sharpest price today, and whether that floor is still there tomorrow. Want the rest of the line, every colourway lives on the Air Jordan 1 page. Then tell us where you stand: Grail or Bail?