They'll keep making Kobe shoes til they stop selling, not til he stops playing.
And if they stop selling, they'll offset the losses against some other shoe instead.
Galaxy models seem to hold their value well. Maybe some other upper end Samsung models? Otherwise, since new models are released more often, i'd say they don't hold their value as long as an iPhone.
Nope. If these don't make the numbers JB want, they'll just offset the losses against future shoes they know will sell.
JB won't stop this nonsense until people, en masse, stop buying Jordans. Full stop.
You know what's next? They'll start hybriding the hybrids.
Wait til you see the...
Some interesting stuff there. IIRC, It's been claimed, and not just by Nike, that reverse engineering molds is is not far off the cost of starting from scratch. They need convincing i guess.
Some people speculated the monkey paw is an issue as well... although can it be that...
I'm gonna engage in rampant speculation and suggest:
They were made on campus - Nike do have a small factory on the campus, right?
They have a separate mold for *Payton's* shoe size/PEs
'Destroyed the mold' then is shorthand for: We don't have any molds for mass production/multiple sizes, and...
All this buyer protection guff is just eBay covering their own *#% against accusations of abusing their monopoly......... Which they are. Their cut is extortionate, and they should be taken to task for it.
You're right.
But IIRC, people weren't too impressed with the pricing of the XVII, they didn't move until retailers lowered the price a little, and the Coppers had a lower SRP to start off with.
I may be wrong on the last point. Aside from that, the XVII was pretty well made. At the time it...
Absolute unmitigated garbage. No creativity, no imagination, they just mashed together a few broad elements from other shoes, then put the upper on the airbag/midsole they reckon they can charge the most for.