Limited edition Adidas trainers that double as Berlin transport season ticket resold on eBay for more than £1,000

The shoes sport the camouflage design of the bus and underground seats of the city of Berlin
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Chloe Chaplain17 January 2018

The limited edition Adidas trainers that double as a Berlin transport season ticket are being resold online for more than £1,000.

The EQT Support 93/Berlin trainers are being sold on eBay for abouy seven times the face value of £160.

People camped outside over several nights in anticipation of the EQT Support 93/Berlin trainers, which had an annual transport pass worth £650 (€730) sewn into the tongue.

Huge queues for limited edition Adidas trainers in Berlin

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After the sneakers sold out, they began appearing on Ebay at a list price of more than £1,100 – hundreds more than the £160 store cost.

Costly: Several pairs are on sale for more than £1,000

Two pairs were available for £1,150 and one cost almost £1,200.

None of the pairs had sold at the time of writing but eager shoppers said on Tuesday that they were expecting to be able to make a lot of money from the quirky footwear.

"I already have a buyer who will pay €850," said Nikita Dutschenko, a young man missed school to wait in line with dozens of others in sub-zero temperatures. "You can make good money out of it."

Adidas designed the shoes to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) public transport company.

Hundreds of people waited overnight for the shoes
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The original EQT style originally launched in 1993 and were popular with east Germans after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

These new designs contain a season ticket valid for 2018 and match the same coloured pattern features on the seats of the subway.

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