PRIVATE SNEAKERS - LONG BEACH

Matt Hoderland

Home away from home with some of the coolest staff I've ever met. Owner use to be an amazing person that understands and loves the sneaker community! I believe he's going through a tough time right now and will start valuing his customers again soon. The staff are still awesome Update It's been about 6 months since Gus (the owner) changed the way shoes were bought at his store. He claimed he was changing it this way to protect customers and employees from violence. The new method of first come first serve as long as you're wearing specific color-coded merchandise has brought more violence to his store in the last 6 months than ever before. People are pulling out guns knives and constant threats are happening. Police have been called multiple times. in the past you'd buy merchandise for a raffle ticket. If you had 20 pieces of merchandise you'd get 20 tickets. No one waited for 20 hours and was cutting the line or holding spots and putting out ghost chairs, there was no hostility. People who got tons of tickets spent tons of money and it made sense. Gus would even preach in front of his Long Beach store that the more merchandise you had the more tickets you get. Lots of people spend over $500 on merchandise on his word only to have it changed weeks later with no offer from him to return the merchandise for breaking the agreement that was set. At first I thought, if he's doing it for the safety of his employees that makes sense however this new method is more dangerous. Now I think he just wants something bad to happen at his store so he's in the newspaper for it and all over the media. It's clear he doesn't care about the safety of his employees or his customers. Please change it back to the way things used to be. Don't let the Pride behind being wrong keep you from doing the right thing.

Steven Gonzales

This is hands down my favorite sneaker store in my area, they are completely fair with their sneaker distribution and raffles. No backdooring happening at all here at this shop, they are strictly for the people and its loyal customers. The have IG raffles and also raffles with their merchandise for loyal customers who purchase various merchandise they release for sneaker releases. They post all of their winners day of release on IG and they even ship to people out of state who win a reservation for a sneaker. I couldn't be anymore thankful for what I have been able to win thru raffles here and I will be a lifelong customer ! They even have FCFS on shoes that haven't been picked up they will post in on their IG stories. You don't have no greedy employees working here which is refreshing to the sneaker community to me. The staff is great and friendly and always makes you feel super welcomed. Great store come check it out!

Harold Morphis

If you are a sneaker head, this is a good place to shop. The staffs are very helpful and friendly too

Nicholas Savio

I have been a consistent customer until now. I wouldn't trust these people with my money again. Totally fake return policy. I bought a shirt that I was told by an employee that it would be for a raffle and the next day they said it was a different shirt. I went back to return it brand new and they wouldn't give me my money back. What type of business lies to customers and doesn't do returns? Private is so suss. What a waste of time. Not coming back.