I skate in Hufs and have been for the last 4 or 5 years. What I think brought this is honestly bad colorways and random shitty shoes being released for a season and going straight to the sale rack.
When I first got into them I received a free pair from a contest they sponsored, I got a pair of southerns blue with brown ollie patch that era the quality wasn't the best but if you look their color ways were amazing mostly darks with hits of bright colors i.e huf 1, mateo, and coopers.
Then when the team grew we saw shoes like the peppers, genuine, and hupper... The Quality got better and color ways stayed the same then they picked up Dylan and Austyn and brought the sutter in a black colorway.
This is when things got better we saw Dylan's shoes release followed by austyn then cromer and between that we saw the huge success of the classic and all the thrasher and bronze collabs of that shoe even the ftp ones sold out like crazy.
However this success changed when they started within the last year doing shoes like the boyd, there was a high top that came out that looked like a and 1 shoe... As well as doing bad color ways a recent one I saw was golden yellow with black sole or the tinman color for the dylans...
I bring the colorways up because back in 2015 to maybe early 2017 I would only buy from the huf site or shops that carried and sold out of huf shoes, however as these colors came out it was not worth pay full price when you can go on Amazon a month later and pick them up at half price cause there not selling.