These are slam-dunk sales.
Some street vendors made thousands of dollars in just a few hours by selling unlicensed merchandise to ecstatic Knicks fans at the champs’ ticker-tape parade Thursday.
Wan Ali, of Los Angeles, California, told The Post he sold about 40 Knicks-themed bucket hats in just 45 minutes – all for a jaw-dropping $100 to $150 a pop.
Some street vendors have been making a killing selling bootleg Knicks merch. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post“We did great, passed $10,000 this morning,” Ali, 53, told The Post. “Better than New Years, because I didn’t freeze and have to pay for a high dollar hotel room.”
Parade attendee D. Spin, of Raleigh, North Carolina, said he got sticker shock at first, but then still opted to snag a hat.
“For $100, I wasn’t sure,” he said “but I was getting so many compliments on this hat [that] I had to come back and get some more stuff for folks back home.”
“The championship pennants, I brought 70 of them and they sold out in the first 10 minutes,” said seller Joseph Robinson III, of Providence, Rhode Island. “The beads sold out in 10 minutes! I sold all the t-shirts in about the first hour.”
Emilio Lora sold his t-shirt merchandise at the Knicks ticker tape parade. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post
Ali was selling Knicks-themed bucket hats at $100-$150 each. Gregory P. Mango for NY PostYet another vendor was peddling copies of The Post’s Thursday cover — with the wood “KINGS OF THE CITY” — celebrating the championship ceremony for a cool $20.
But not everyone appeared to play ball with the merch slingers.
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Some vendors apparently walked away with much less than expected after cops directed them to move. Other vendors, like Robinson, got stuck inside the closed-down streets along the Lower Manhattan parade route.
“I didn’t do bad but my gross is going to be about $1,500 less [than expected],” Robinson, 46, said, “because they did something here: … close down the streets and not letting us move.
“Once you sold to these people you got to move around and sell to the next group of people,” he added. “I got here at 4:30 this morning and they basically locked me into this one spot.”
“We didn’t do good,” said Emilio Lora, of The Bronx. “I was expecting a lot more today! The way the cops are closing the streets.
“They don’t want you setting up anywhere. They’re moving you from one bad place to another.”
