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*Bel Air + fighter jet flame + lace lock alert* on Zion
Dude has Fred Flinstone feet, I'd like to see them on someone else
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*Bel Air + fighter jet flame + lace lock alert* on Zion
What, you don't know? I'm disappointed in you. Obviously the best practice for running a retail business is to endlessly advertise and promote products that none of your customers can purchase, or will ever be able to purchase. If Sony had a brain, it would never have released PS5 at all. It should've just kept promoting it and only giving it to pro gamers and influencers, forever. It would inspire everyone else on Earth to just buy Sony TVs or other Sony products. That's the true winning strategy all successful businesses understand. You really need to go back to business school, bruh.
Definitely frustrating. I'm not 100% sure I understand it still. Then again I'm so old I remember when they only released like maybe 5 color-ways in total - but most of them if not all of them were fairly readily available unless you completely slept on them. Too many color-ways/PEs not enough releases or availability these days. It's beyond building hype. I've been a NIKE fan since I was in the third grade, my first pair were white canvas Blazers with a blue swoosh. So I've been in it for the long haul. I don't try to really analyze or criticize, I just like my NIKEs and Jordans, I like my shoes and been giving them my money for decades - but I don't understand this.What, you don't know? I'm disappointed in you. Obviously the best practice for running a retail business is to endlessly advertise and promote products that none of your customers can purchase, or will ever be able to purchase. If Sony had a brain, it would never have released PS5 at all. It should've just kept promoting it and only giving it to pro gamers and influencers, forever. It would inspire everyone else on Earth to just buy Sony TVs or other Sony products. That's the true winning strategy all successful businesses understand. You really need to go back to business school, bruh.
the way they are marketing now is way different ages ago. many moons ago if you see some shoes, that means they are available for purchase unless you live under a rock or a place where they couldn't ship the shoes. even if in this era where globalization makes it possible to access the shoes, Nike wouldn't sell them to you. they release those PE as their way to market their mediocre counterparts.Definitely frustrating. I'm not 100% sure I understand it still. Then again I'm so old I remember when they only released like maybe 5 color-ways in total - but most of them if not all of them were fairly readily available unless you completely slept on them. Too many color-ways/PEs not enough releases or availability these days. It's beyond building hype. I've been a NIKE fan since I was in the third grade, my first pair were white canvas Blazers with a blue swoosh. So I've been in it for the long haul. I don't try to really analyze or criticize, I just like my NIKEs and Jordans, I like my shoes and been giving them my money for decades - but I don't understand this.
I agree. but then again I guess Nike wants to protect their endorsers by spoon-feeding them that they would only be the ones to wear those colorways. it's too bad that Nike limited their customization to midtier shoes. it was fun when we were able to customize our cushions and some of the sigs a few years ago. I would gladly pay a reasonable premium for customized sig shoes. but I guess Nike prioritizes mass production and sell each limited PE/SE releases as if they are top quality. even those rejects ( botched swoosh ) are being sold for insane amount.Yep, marketing is different these days. I actually work in that field. Again, sorry to live in the past, but it was nice back in the day that if you saw Mike wearing a shoe/color-way you knew you could probably get it and wear the "same" shoe he was. That was exciting, especially for a kid. Nowadays that's only slightly true because of PEs, general releases and limited availability. How many color-ways that the players wear can the average NIKE consumer actually get their hands on? When I say average, I mean someone without connections, etc. Like I said I've been giving them my money for 4 decades and I've yet to find any connection to land me limited or tough to get releases. So driving the hype on unaccessible items, to me, doesn't make much marketing sense. People don't usually want to settle. "That color-way Zion has on is amazing but I'll settle for this pair instead." Ummm, no. That's not OK. It builds frustration and you have to be losing money from people who just walk away. Like I said I love my shoes and 99.5% of mine are NIKE but as much as I dig the company this is still frustrating. You can't and probably shouldn't limit the PEs - let the players wear what the want and you can't release all of them - that would be insane - but dropping a few would make sense and make people happy AND NIKE money.
the only custom that we only got are garbage. like the one that was supposed to be designed colorway by Zion's lil bro which was all hype due to Zion. no offense to those who like them but that was just atrocious. I'm sure some other 5 year old kid could have done a better job putting up some crayola lines.That's a good point... letting the endorsers have color-ways that are truly only for them. Didn't think about that. I'm sure there could be some middle ground though. Not practically EVERY one has to be a PE. I think if they released enough color-ways that perhaps were inspired/designed by players/PEs then people would be happier. It's the fact that 95% of what you see won't ever be available that's the issue. Why not have Player PEs and Player GRs? Player GRs that were created actually by the player. People seem to really love what the players create/wear more so than what gets released for the general public. "Luka has 20 PEs but you can actually buy this one. Zion has 25 PEs but you can buy this one."
Being able to customize shoes like this would be cool to do.
Got around to working into rotation my Game of Death XXX5s alongside their 2010 OG counterparts. Insole swapped from Bloodline* (DNAs).
Thank you. I mean the green is nice but overall design is too close to the Game of Death Vs that i couldnt help but to continue that Number 1 and 2 connection.fire bro. They just had to throw that turquoise garbage on these instead of this.
I'd say this, the eclipse plate is a fail. no functionality at all.Damn they gotta give Zion a little extra midsole on the top of his eclipse plate
people in charge of colorways at JB have developed a special talent after the 31's of ruining what could have been massively succesfull new Air Jordan models by either trying too hard with mainly odd colorways and by keeping being too stubborn to keep it mainly simple and rely on their great base design and offer some more closely OG inspired colorways people would love to get their hands on.fire bro. They just had to throw that turquoise garbage on these instead of this.