When I’m looking at a release that’s three and a half years old, the lowest price is never the first thing I check. I look at the spread, because that shows you what happened to a pair after the hype died down. This Air Max 1 from February 2023 made me pause for a moment, because the listings aren’t divided into expensive and cheap stores. They’re divided into expensive and cheap sizes. On the exact same shoe, that difference is more than a hundred euros.
What you see in the photos
Grey, but in layers. The toe box, mudguard and large side panel are made from dark anthracite-grey suede, with a lighter grey panel running across them from the toe to behind the Swoosh. That same light grey returns on the tongue, laces and heel section, which is then wrapped in a darker shade. The Swoosh is white leather with a pronounced grain texture — the only real contrast across the entire upper.
Things get more interesting down below. There’s no stark-white midsole, but a cream-colored one with a clear Air window, sitting above a brown gum outsole. That warm-colored base is exactly what ties the three shades of grey together; with a white outsole, this would have been a flat-looking shoe. There’s also a small light-colored logo on the heel. Nothing else, and that’s the point here.
Fifteen sellers, and the price depends on your size
There are currently fifteen active listings: three regular webshops and twelve marketplaces. Nike itself has had them listed as sold out for some time, so this is what remains after three and a half years. The lowest asking price is €75, the highest €190. At first glance, that looks like a perfectly ordinary spread.
Now filter by size. In 36, prices start at €75, and there’s even a regular webshop listing them at €102. In 38.5, you can get in at €93; in 37.5, €109; and in 38, €111. From size 40 onward, that changes abruptly. There, the lowest price in virtually every size is exactly €174.95 — one seller has priced the entire men’s range the same way — and the next listing isn’t below €227 in any size. In 43, 45.5 and 46, that second price climbs above €300.
Take that one seller out of the equation and the men’s sizes suddenly sit around €300. With that seller included, size 43 costs less than half of what the second-lowest listing is asking. That’s not the kind of deal you find by bookmarking one favorite store. You only see it when you line up the entire list side by side.
What this says about the pair
What doesn’t sell gets cheaper. With a men’s Air Max 1 Premium, that means the smaller sizes, so that’s where the price drops the most. In the sizes people actually want, the opposite happens: they become scarce and hold their value. The reason you can see that so clearly here is that there’s genuine interest in the shoe. The Hypescore is 83, the tier is ATOMIC, and in Grail or Bail, more than 2,000 votes go to Grail versus around 300 for Bail. So this isn’t a pair nobody wants anymore. It’s a pair where the supply has become skewed.
What I would do
If you wear 36 through 38.5, I wouldn’t hesitate for too long. You don’t often find an Air Max 1 with this kind of finish for under €100, and listings like these disappear without warning — not because everyone suddenly rushes to buy them, but because there’s usually only one pair available.
If you wear a men’s size, lock in your size first and only then check the stores. If you do it the other way around, you’ll be looking at a rock-bottom price that doesn’t exist in your size. Click around blindly, and you could easily end up paying twice as much.
All fifteen sellers are listed side by side on the page for this Air Max 1 Crepe. Filter by your size, work your way down the list, and you’ll see on one screen whether your size sits at the cheap or expensive end of the market. And search for FD5088-001, not “soft grey” — there are plenty of grey Air Max 1s out there, and this is just one of them.