Look at that upper for a second. A taupe-grey leather base, a bright red Swoosh, and then this washed-out, almost marbled red bleeding across the toe, the heel and the mudguard like it went through the machine on the wrong cycle. The cream, deliberately yellowed sole finishes off the vintage picture. This is the Nike Dunk High 1985 ‘Red Acid Wash’ (DD9404-600), and the whole idea is that it looks lived-in before you’ve even laced it up. That’s exactly the kind of shoe I keep half an eye on, because the ones that aren’t squeaky-clean retros tend to slip past everyone.
And slipping past everyone is where the deals live. Right now on Solezilla.com there are nine active listings for this pair, all of them in euros. The spread between them is almost comical. The cheapest sits around €65, over in the resale and consignment corner. A couple of those marketplace listings climb to the mid-eighties. Then the middle of the pack bunches around €109 to €112, and right at the top there’s one lone listing asking €230 for the exact same shoe. Same colourway, same code, nearly four times the price depending on where you click.
The cheap end isn’t where you’d expect
Here’s what most people get wrong: they open the first shop that pops up, see €112, and assume that’s the going rate. It isn’t. On this pair the friendliest prices are tucked into the resale and consignment side, not the tidy retail-style listings — and that gap is real money. Paying €112 when the same shoe sits near €65 two listings over is just not reading the room.
No pound or dollar listings on this one yet, for what it’s worth. Everything we’re tracking today is in euros, so if you’re shopping from the UK or the US, add shipping and any import costs on top of these numbers before you get attached to that €65.
Wait for a dip, or move now?
I wouldn’t bank on it dropping much further. Our Hypescore has it at 57 out of 100, sitting in the RADIATING band — still plenty of pull on it. When demand holds like that, the floor rarely cracks open any wider; it just sits there. This is a Dunk that’s been out since 2021 and still trading well under its original retail, so on its own history this is already a fair buy rather than a shoe you need to gamble on.
One thing from someone who actually buys these: the floor price almost never covers every size. On a pair that’s a few years old, it’s usually the odd end sizes that linger at the sharpest price while the common sizes creep toward that €112 band. So check that your size is actually in the cheap corner before you fixate on the lowest number on the page.
Line all nine listings up side by side — price and size together — on the Red Acid Wash page, so you don’t hand over €112 for something sitting near €65 a row down. Want to see where the rest of the line stands? Every colourway is on the Nike Dunk High page. Then tell us: Grail or Bail?