

However this isn’t the case any more, you can get to the add to cart screen in seconds and still find the dreaded sold out sign. As long as you were organised and sitting at your computer or laptop (not phones the connection is too unreliable), you were pretty much guaranteed to get what you wanted.

For the highest success rates you just needed to make sure you had a stable and fast internet connection, some peace and quiet and relatively quick fingers.

In those simpler days in order to grab something limited like a sneaker release or the biggest concert tickets there were only a few prerequisites. Now automated purchasing and residential proxy providers are an essential part of any commercial online purchasing especially for ‘high demand items’ in short supply. The very idea of finding the best proxy servers for your bots to help you jump the queue seemed completely irrelevant. Unfortunately the game has changed and even a small bit of research about bot access and sneaker sites will reveal the huge changes in these markets.

Those days are long gone and now it’s a surprise if you manage to grab those tickets or sneakers if you’re relying simply on your internet service provider and a computer. If you got the release date right and made sure you were ready and primed then you’d rarely fail to make your purchase. Online purchasing used to be so simple, even for those ‘hard to get’ items where there was competition.
