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I read up to page 4, good responses by all, it really sucks that it had to come to this.....
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1st off Gentry is desperate. He can see the end of the Signature Air Jordan Line ahead of him and it makes him nervous. Where do they go from here ?
He should be, his job is on the line. He along with everyone else working for JB handled this "retro craze" the wrong way. They could have made the brand viable for years. Instead they flooded the market and pissed off a very loyal fan base. His soulutions to the problem will only make things worse for Gentry and the JB team.
2-3 releases a month, JB went bonkers 3years ago. I used to think 1 release a month was insane, but now they are really overdoing it. JB and Air Jordans lost all sense of exclusivity among the community and in sneaker circles.
They had to resort to manufactured exclusivity/scarcity in order to appease the hype. Frankly, it turned off many loyal Jordan heads who recalled the days of being able to buy any model weeks after RD. Jordans were rare since everybody wore them until they gave out. Finding a mint pair was difficult, not because it was 1 0f 5000, but because everybody wore them to play ball.
I have given JB the benefit of the doubt on many occasions, but they have gone to far. Ignoring quality issues, and insisting on butchering many classics.
Though they did take our suggestion on bringing back the plastic/rubber "wings" they have ignored many suggestions that IMO would have made the brand a little more succesfull. Why insist on ramming the Jumpman down consumer throats when they insist on "Nike Air".
They would have made a lot of its fanbase happy if they would have listened to one of the smartest suggestions I have heard.......
Keep OG colorways the same, and place the Jumpman on the Retro +.
I honestly feel that the excuse of "changing" classics to keep OG collectors happy, is a load of crap.
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