shoe, there's no way my mind would go, "This is fake."

- I'm Jerome, I'm a sneaker authenticator at GOAT, and GOAT

is the largest marketplace for sneakers.

Nike is the most counterfeited brand in the world.

In 2015, GOAT was established to help solve the problem.

I've been collecting sneakers since 2002. I've been a

sneaker authenticator for two years.

Shortly, we're gonna have some of our friends come by

and try to guess between some of our real and fake shoes

and see how good they do.

Now, these are the Jordan 1 off-whites designed

by Virgil Abloh.

- This is impossible, okay--

- I tell people usually, what are you looking at--

- I'm looking for the stitching right now.

The stitching sometimes is sloppy on fake Jordans.

Well, that didn't work because it's pretty clean.

Okay, let's feel the quality of the leather.

Oh I don't know what the quality of the leather is on the

off-white because is it tumbled?

- It's straight, it's smooth straight leather.

- I'm gonna go with this is fake.

- Oh man, is that your final answer?

- Well, you do know the answer, right?

- Is that your final answer? You're putting everything on it

- Uh, it's an educated guess based on just the craftsmanship

of the shoe.

- You're gonna be rocking some fake shoes

because you got it wrong.

- God damn it, yeah okay.

- We have the Jordan 11 'Bred' or Playoff 11. These were

made famous when Jordan came back and won his fourth

championship with the Chicago Bulls.

- So, immediately I am flummoxed by this because these look

identical. I have a guess, I studied for a very long time.

This is the real one. I'll say why, even though I'm probably

about to look real stupid. On the stitching on the tongue

here, this seems like kind of a looser stitch compared to

that. This just seems a little tighter, this is a little

more frayed and loose, this looks a little bit more

like, legit. So I think this is probably real.

- Okay, which one smells off to you?

- This one smells off. This one smells like a new shoe, this

one doesn't have a smell.

- We'll be putting you in training.

- Oh my God.

- [Jerome] These are the Jordan 1 'Banned', they

came out in 2016. These were made famous because

Jordan wore these, this colorway that was banned and the

NBA actually covered the fine every time he wore them.

- Let's just go with clear look and color, seems even

on both. There's a little fray here, a little bit.

Are these worn, brand new, never worn?

The stitching on here is a little bit more worn, for sure.

This is clean, clean lines we got going on here. These

lines are a little bit more frayed, as you can see.

They're a little more fluffy, if you will. It's not

on par with the Jordan brand normally.

- That gave me nothing, I don't know.

These smell minty fresh, are these worn? I could be wrong.

I probably am wrong. I'm gonna go with these are real.

- Yeah, you're right.

- At least I went one for two, 50%, that's good.

That's like Ben Wallace-style free throws.

That's fine, he played in the NBA.

- [Lauren] These are real, these are fake.

See? It so threw me off, I was like, this, okay--

- [Jerome] These are the Jordan 11 2016 Space Jams.

People call it Space Jam but he actually wore these before

the movie was even made.

- Okay, let's see what we've got here. The inside tag

of this one looks pretty standard. The inside tag of

this one shockingly looks pretty standard.

- I was looking at this little tag here on the tongue,

just because I think as much as you can perfectly copy

something, there's something about the Jordan symbol.

They look really different, and this one just seems a little

bit like it's trying to copy. This is the real shoe.

This is the fake shoe. Am I right or wrong about that?

- I redeemed a little bit myself.

- This one is the real one, because it has the

cleaner look on that little carbon fiber pattern.

Now tell me why I'm wrong.

- You're actually right.

- I'm pretty much an expert at this.