What Is SNKRDUNK? Japan's Authenticated Card and Sneaker Market

What is SNKRDUNK?

SNKRDUNK is one of Japan's largest marketplaces for collectables. It began with sneakers and grew into trading cards, and the two categories are now comparable in size.

It is a middleman marketplace: the sellers are individuals and shops, and the platform holds the money and checks the goods rather than holding stock of its own.

Listings cover both deadstock in the box and used items, and every item has to state a condition grade.

Every item is strictly authenticated

What separates this from an ordinary resale app is that every item passes through the company's own inspection centre first.

When a buyer commits, the seller ships to the centre, not to the buyer. Staff verify the item is genuine and that its condition matches what was listed; anything that fails is sent back and the buyer refunded. Only what passes goes on.

Two things are traded for that: prices run slightly above the open market, and it takes longer, because the item makes the journey in two legs. For most buyers who have been burned by a fake, it is worth it.

What SNKRDUNK sells

The two main categories are trading cards and sneakers.

On the card side there are sealed boxes, singles and graded slabs, covering Pokemon, One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh. It is the fastest-growing part of the site, because a fake card costs as much as a fake shoe.

On the sneaker side — where the site started — there is everything from current releases to models that stopped being made, across Nike, Jordan and adidas.

Beyond those two there is streetwear, branded bags, watches and other collectables valuable enough to justify the check.

Can you order from SNKRDUNK yourself in Thailand?

You cannot. The platform is built for users in Japan, from a sign-up that verifies Japanese details through to a checkout built around Japanese payment methods.

And because every item routes through the inspection centre first, the address the system ships to is a Japanese one by design.

That leaves one route: someone in Japan buys it, waits for it to clear the inspection centre, and forwards it on to Thailand.

Ordering from SNKRDUNK through Tama-Chan

Tama-Chan can order from SNKRDUNK for you. Copy the listing link and send it to an admin on LINE; the team checks the price and quotes a baht total before you commit.

If you are buying shoes, freight home is priced on the packed volume as well as the weight, because shoe boxes take up space. Cards are small and light, so they cost far less to send.

Compare sea and air on the shipping page, and see the fees on the service fee table.

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