Last updated September 29, 2026.
Just Drops is a sneaker release calendar built from the brands’ and retailers’ own published data. Dates, drop times, prices and stock are collected automatically from those sources, not copied from rumor posts. This page explains where each piece comes from, which source wins when they disagree, how we catch early releases, delays and restocks, and what we cannot promise.
We read each brand’s own launch information directly:
We also read the release calendars and launch pages of the stores we track every night from 4 AM ET, with shorter passes during the day: Foot Locker and its sister stores, Finish Line and JD Sports, DICK’S Sporting Goods, DTLR, SNIPES and more than 40 independent boutiques. Each store listing is matched to a shoe by its style code.
Twice a day we also load the product catalogs retailers publish through their affiliate networks. Those add prices, stock and where-to-buy links.
A brand and a store often list different dates for the same shoe. A store may open sales two days before the brand’s launch, or schedule its own drop for the next morning. On the calendar, a shoe’s date and time are the brand’s own whenever the brand has published them.
Store dates still count. Each store’s link on a product page keeps that store’s own date and time. When a brand hasn’t published a date, the calendar uses the stores’ dates instead. We only copy a store’s date onto a brand’s listing when at least two different stores agree on the same day.
Drop times are stored in Eastern Time as the source publishes them. The calendar shows them in your own time zone, and this week’s drops lists each one in ET, CT, MT and PT.
When a source gives a date without a time, the listing shows the date alone. There are three exceptions. For adidas and New Balance we show 10:00 AM ET, and for Crocs 11:00 AM ET, unless the brand’s own page gives a time. Treat those as the brand’s usual launch time rather than a confirmed one.
Everything dated a given day moves from Upcoming to Past at 6 PM ET that day, all at once.
A shoe counts as out early when a store other than the brand itself is verifiably selling it before the brand’s release date. These are the checks:
Every confirmed sighting is listed on the Out Early page. The calendar card also carries an “out early” label, but only for stores we link to through an affiliate program.
Every time a release date or time moves, we log the change with the moment we saw it. Product pages show that history.
Once a shoe has released, a later date in a feed doesn’t reopen it as a new launch unless there’s evidence of one. That means a new launch record from Nike, or a store listing a drop on the new date.
If a brand removes an upcoming shoe from its own calendar, it comes off ours. We refuse to remove anything when a brand’s feed comes back empty, or when one refresh would remove more than half of a brand’s upcoming shoes. That usually means the brand’s page broke, not that the shoes were cancelled.
The retail price is the brand’s listed price when the brand publishes one. Otherwise we fill it from the stores: the price on the listing of the store that first carried the shoe, then a price several US stores agree on, then the style’s catalog retail price. We never use a resale asking price, and a brand price replaces a filled-in one as soon as it appears.
A store is shown as in stock only when that store’s own data says so, the data is less than 72 hours old and the store’s launch countdown has ended. Before a release, only stores we’ve audited for selling early, or ones with a confirmed early release, can show as in stock.
Resale prices come from GOAT, Flight Club and Kicks Crew listings. An asking price older than 72 hours is hidden. So is a placeholder ask: a price of $1,000 or more that 25 or more different shoes share in one feed, unless another shop backs it up.
On the Deals page, a crossed-out “was” price is hidden when it’s more than 15% above the highest price we’ve seen for that shoe in at least 14 days of tracking.
An automated health check runs every hour and after the nightly store run. It flags any brand feed or store calendar that has gone stale, stopped returning shoes or shrunk well below its usual size, and alerts us.
Store links are re-checked on a rolling basis, oldest first. A link the store answers with “not found” is hidden everywhere. A few large retailers block automated checks, so their links can’t be verified this way.
Brands move launches without notice. We pick up a change on our next read of the brand’s feed: within minutes for Nike’s launch feed, and up to a day for brands we read once a day. Stock and prices can change between our checks. Our terms of service carry the full accuracy disclaimer.
Spotted a wrong date, time, price or link? Send the shoe’s style code and what’s off through our contact page. The About page covers who runs Just Drops.