New Nike.com System - Picture Captcha/Access Codes

[chillen]

 
bro I think his point was there is no way to cross reference a sale made on FTL, FNL etc with your account on NDC... correct me if Im wrong???

but technically if you bought that iphone from bestbuy you would be more of a bestbuy fanboy than apple because bestbuy already bought the phone from apple just as FTL is Nikes biggest customer

all this is silly talk anyway when they change everyone will fall inline and know what to do but to isolate new customers would be a bad business move IMO... Nike already has their loyal fan base but to grow they new customers and yes people will create extra accounts etc but theres nothing they can do about if this access code is the next step

I can only imagine what those ATC services will charge once they figure out the loophole 

 

exactly what i meant

 

[chillen]

I suggest rereading his post. He does not explicitly state that he is a valuable NDC customer, just that he is a "valuable customer".

It can be inferred that he isn't saying he's a valuable NDC customer due to the fact that he rarely shops there and buys most of his Nike products elsewhere.

ahh, my fault

 

[shoecollector75]

 
lol how can you rarely buy from NDC but still be a valuable customer 

Wow last time I checked Nike products are sold everywhere and my time is worth more money than a pair of shoes so I am not sitting on the internet all day to buy shoes. I do go into stores and buy Nike products.

 

[chillen]

 
Wow last time I checked Nike products are sold everywhere and my time is worth more money than a pair of shoes so I am not sitting on the internet all day to buy shoes. I do go into stores and buy Nike products.

yeah i think i was wrong on this one lol. sorry man

 

[squatchnt]

If I rarely buy off NDC because of the hassle and I usually only buy in stores how does this affect me because I am still a valuable customer.

If you don't have a NDC account you're going to have to make one I guess in order to be elegible if you want to participate in the process.

 

[mrdeeds]

Only thing that would make sense is for people to have to log into their accounts and enter a raffle for access codes.  It wouldn't make sense for them to determine on their end who to send it to.  Some of us would be getting access codes for releases we wouldn't even want.

 

[airforce1king]

P4L

 

[mmr31d]

As someone told me who use to work for the CIA. "If it's man made, a man can get around it"

My thoughts exactly, no matter what NDC decides to do there will be someone that will beat it. It is good to see that Nike is trying to implement solutions to help those that arent able to cop the shoes that they want. Nike will never win though because they wont be able to make everyone happy. I am not really sure why they would give access codes when it doesnt guarantee that you will get the shoe, you would think it would be guaranteed.

 

[sole2011]

Well the concept is rather interesting. Can't wait to see how it works.

 

[thenewjs23]

They need take a cue from the San Diego Comic Con ticket sales.

 

[takeoff]

Imagine if they took preorders for each release and produced pairs to match those numbers. Essentially the shoes will be produced for you. Once the shoe is produced it's shipped to you which could take months. Would kill the resell market







Wishful thinking lol

 

[joesmo]

 
Horrible idea.

They are pretty much scrambling at this point to do anything but produce enough pairs to go around.

God forbid. The elephant in the room is clear here. 

They are hanging on to their precious little hype for dear life.

RSVP has been a fail, random releases have been a fail, captchas have been a fail, and this will be a fail.

Make more shoes or shut the hell up Nike.

When did Nike ever use Captchas at the checkout process? Because I hear a lot of people saying the captchas at check out are the best way to stop bots....but i really don't know if it'd work for NDC since I dont try NDC at all for big releases. So yeah, when did they ever use captchas?

 

[Karizma]

 
NDC....just when i thought you had forsaken me.

You give us what we need, though it may not be what we want.

anybody else see whats wrong with this guy's post ?

 

[Karizma]

btw that code page was created 08/01/13

Xbox One & PS4 NBA 2k14 released early November. Its obvious that the Access code page was created just for the 2k14s

Blame all these sneaker news websites for hyping you up. 

 

[dasolesavant]

Captchas at checkout is a horrible idea because by then its to late, the shoes would have already been added to carts, but a captcha before selecting size would stop atc bots

 

[agsz]

Captchas at checkout is a horrible idea because by then its to late, the shoes would have already been added to carts, but a captcha before selecting size would stop atc bots

CAPTCHA's can be read by a program as well my friend. the internet is fair game for programmers..the abundance of people asking for help fixing their free bots on coding forums is getting insane.

 

[Deleted member 72674]

THIS TOPIC + JB FORUM = 

 

[futuredhughes]

What's wrong with just making more pairs?

More pairs = more money right?

 

[rapcoz2134]

What's wrong with just making more pairs?

More pairs = more money right?

If there were enough pairs for everyone that wanted them, not everyone would want them.

 

[futuredhughes]

If there were enough pairs for everyone that wanted them, not everyone would want them.

True. I know some folks only want shoes that are "limited," but at the end of the day as a company, I'd rather maximize my profit.

Its really know way to please everyone really.

If you can marginalize production numbers, hit us with more restocks then.

2012 was the best time to cop shoes aftermarket because JB had like 4 different restocks.

 

[alp]

True. I know some folks only want shoes that are "limited," but at the end of the day as a company, I'd rather maximize my profit.

Its really know way to please everyone really.

If you can marginalize production numbers, hit us with more restocks then.

2012 was the best time to cop shoes aftermarket because JB had like 4 different restocks.

but they are maximizing their profit. A few years ago there wasn't a hyped release every week like there is now. If they produced everything in enough supply like demand would fall and ppl would move on to another fad. Them limiting the shoes creates a unique market in which people buy up practically every hyped shoe week after week. Nike is thinking long term, not short term like you are

 

[futuredhughes]

^ Guess so.

But it doesn't matter what 'we' think because they'll do what's best for 'them' and the company.

One thing I definitely don't like besides the quantities is the price increase.

But that's another story.

 

[trappedintime]

If there were enough pairs for everyone that wanted them, not everyone would want them.

True. I know some folks only want shoes that are "limited," but at the end of the day as a company, I'd rather maximize my profit.

Its really know way to please everyone really.

If you can marginalize production numbers, hit us with more restocks then.

2012 was the best time to cop shoes aftermarket because JB had like 4 different restocks.

Why did they need to restock shoes that were made in such huge numbers last year? Resale on almost any Retro V is sitting at $200-$220, which is about $15-$35 over retail. For something sold out that was readily available, that shows you most of these releases DO meet demand. What Nike needs to do is get that supply into the right hands. Resellers buying up huge quantities prevent people from getting their pairs, and while someone may argue that helps Nike, I still believe if resellers were able to obtain a lot less, sellouts would still occur. But c'mon, even shoes like the Oreo V sold out and there were hundreds of thousands of pairs made. The sellouts are already artificial in the sense that much of that is going to dudes who are buying LOTS of pairs to flip.

Access codes could move more inventory into the hands and on the feet of those who really want the product rather than to resellers who continue to do this weekly flip job because consumer demand is there.

 

[vicious kicks]

btw that code page was created 08/01/13

Xbox One & PS4 NBA 2k14 released early November. Its obvious that the Access code page was created just for the 2k14s


Blame all these sneaker news websites for hyping you up. 

 

[futuredhughes]

Why did they need to restock shoes that were made in such huge numbers last year? Resale on almost any Retro V is sitting at $200-$220, which is about $15-$35 over retail. For something sold out that was readily available, that shows you most of these releases DO meet demand. What Nike needs to do is get that supply into the right hands. Resellers buying up huge quantities prevent people from getting their pairs, and while someone may argue that helps Nike, I still believe if resellers were able to obtain a lot less, sellouts would still occur. But c'mon, even shoes like the Oreo V sold out and there were hundreds of thousands of pairs made. The sellouts are already artificial in the sense that much of that is going to dudes who are buying LOTS of pairs to flip.

Access codes could move more inventory into the hands and on the feet of those who really want the product rather than to resellers who continue to do this weekly flip job because consumer demand is there.

True, true.

But whatever Nike/JB does to somehow "help" the system, it will always be some folks who messes it up for the rest of us.

We'll see what happens in the future.