Same shoe, and still I watched it go by this week from just under €80 to well over €200. That kind of spread is exactly what I watch for, and usually in a good way: somewhere there’s a quiet retail price that half the buyers scroll straight past. Here it’s the Converse Chuck 70 Hi from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s signature line, the ‘Charm Black’ (A18994C) — and it’s back on Converse’s own shop.
It’s a triple black, and the tidy kind. The upper is soft suede, deep black, with a tonal All Star patch on the ankle you only catch when the light hits it right. The only break is the silver eyelets; everything else is black, down to the rubber toe cap, the foxing stripe and the outsole. No logo shouting, no loud colorway. That’s exactly why an all-black model tends to sit around longer than the bright drops, and exactly why it slips under just about anything.
€80 at the source, or double that elsewhere
The brand shop is asking around 80 euros right now, neatly in line with the 79.99 euro launch price from last year. That’s your anchor. The real story is what happens around it: on the resale side this exact number runs in every direction. One listing even dipped under retail, another sits comfortably above 200 euros for the same black suede Chuck. Those asks aren’t a market price, they’re bets — and as long as Converse itself has your size, you don’t have to play along.
One note for UK and US readers: right now the active listings on this code are euro-only. There’s nothing in pounds or dollars at the moment, so factor shipping and any import costs into that 80 euros before you compare.
Why this pair is the one that comes back
Signature shoes from active NBA players have an odd life cycle. At release all the attention goes to the loud colors, and the black version waits politely on the shelf — until it quietly sells out and returns months later as a restock. That’s what just happened. For a buyer it’s the best case there is: no stress, no bots, just pick your size at retail. If you’ve been eyeing the Chuck 70 from Shai’s line but didn’t want to pay top price, this is the calm moment to move.
My order stays the same: first check whether your size is back at Converse itself, then put the resale asks next to it before you do anything. On Solezilla you’ll see every active seller of this A18994C on one row, along with the rest of the Converse catalog — so you can tell at a glance whether that 80 euros is really the sharpest, or whether something better just landed somewhere else.