Retail giant Nike is suing the Detroit-based company StockX, alleging that it purchased four pairs of counterfeit shoes on the sneaker resale platform between December 2021 and January 2022.

Now, this isn’t to say that StockX is a scam or that every sneaker you can purchase on there is a fake, but a single buyer ...

Nike also accused the re-seller of being clueless about just how many fake sneakers they have ... to sell almost 2,000 counterfeit shoes on the StockX platform before shutting down.

But unlike its larger rival StockX ... even authenticates all used shoes, in addition to new, which gives buyers more confidence they are not buying replica pairs. Poshmark authenticates items ...