The cheapest headline price has a habit of belonging to somebody else’s feet. A same-shoe analysis from SneakerPulse gives the big-size frustration some numbers, without pretending every model behaves the same way. Compare a shoe with itself. The study used GOAT completed sales from July 28 through October 25, 2026 across 3,416 qualifying men’s sneaker listings. Each shoe’s size prices were compared with that same shoe’s median in sizes 9–11. That controls for the obvious problem of comparing on