Bao didnt come in the half/half box.........wouldn't that suggest more of a general release than anything else?
From what a skate shop owner in STL told me, they request a range of seizes and in the amount they want to order them..........So if stores only got a limited amount of these, maybe they didnt think they would sell very well and only got a few. He also said they have to place their order with nike a few months in advance while only judging the shoes themselves, so they dont know what is gonna sell and what isnt, so this seems possible
The store in stl is the only one they own, so there is only one person that orders them...........Only reason he told me this is because i needed an 11.5 and they never order that size and only order one sz 11 in all of their shoes. Said he could start ordering a sz 11.5 and ordering more sizes if he knew there was a market for them. (but they never get calls or questions about SBs, so they usually dont bother)
Ive been posting my SB pickups lately in a local FB group and a few others have gained interest or the ones that already had interest have started to surface, so hopefully we can get some guys together to start shopping there so they see there is a market for them. (The only store in saint louis that had the TIFFS and they only had 7 pair if im not mistaken)
EDIT*** Its funny that i see that somebody posted about how they actually select how many to order, LOL.......promise that must have been posted while i typed this up at work, lol