How a Dubai teenager made Dh600,000 from reselling shoes – The National

How a Dubai teenager made Dh600,000 from reselling shoes – The National

A little over a year ago, a few months before moving to Dubai with his family, Kevin Ghassemi won a pair of Air Jordan 1 Retro High Royal Toe at a sale raffle.

Ghassemi, 17, who was in Stockholm at the time, paid the Swedish crown equivalent of Dh800 for the in-demand trainers and sold them the next day for Dh1,200.

“I didn’t really know much about sneakers, but my friends were obsessed. And when I realised I could make a profit out of it, I was hooked,” he tells The National. “I started entering as many raffles as I could and slowly started building a collection.”