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The MAJORITY of people that buy the "limited-edition" or "high-demand" athletic shoes are not using them for athletic purposes.
Obviously...but, that is a TINY percentage of the market..VERY SMALL! What is your point?
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Shoes will always sell because footwear is essnetial to a certain extent, but the MAJORITY of consumers would not spend extra $$ on a shoe just because it was a limited edition.
As all of the kids out there will tell you, it's a "game" now; performance isn't the main attribute of the shoe anymore, but rather how bad it creases, what they can match it up with and "break necks", or how much they can flip it for on eBay...
"fads" don't last 20-30 years...Will Smith has been talking about "not creasing his kicks" since the 80's...and, if you don't think that people have been "matching" or "hooking up" their shoes to their clothes since at least the 80s...again, you haven't been paying attention...
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...just like all of the baseball card/comic book/beanie baby collectors that fell to the wayside after those fads also died down.
using "fad" in relation to the athletic shoe industry makes no sense...20-30 years IS NOT a fad...
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If that's the most logical comparison you can come up with then I'm not even going to touch that with a 10 foot pole.
$200.00 sneaker vs. $150,000 car?
Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people have that kind of disposible income...
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"fads" don't last 20-30 years...Will Smith has been talking about "not creasing his kicks" since the 80's...and, if you don't think that people have been "matching" or "hooking up" their shoes to their clothes since at least the 80s...again, you haven't been paying attention...
Comic book and baseball card companies have been around for twice as long. Both industries experienced their respective peaks with "multiple cover/gold foil/limited edition/small print run" gimmicks used to create hype to products (kinda what the shoe industry has been doing for a few years now). Both markets were flooded with people trying to cash in on those "gimmicks", but when they realized that there was little to no resale value like they had hoped would happen, they stopped buying, and sales dropped dramatically.
Do people still buy and sell comics books and baseball cards?
Yep.
Are their sales numbers anywhere near what they were about 10 to 15 years ago during their respective peaks?
Nope, and probably never will be.
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- Bringing out a new model every year in an attempt to get people to buy the new model, wether or not the old one is in need of replacing...
Baseball cards - once per year.
Comic Books - once per month.
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- The artistic aspect of both industries...
Artists draw comic books, baseball cards have a new design every year.
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- The salesperson aspect of both industries...
You got me there; but I'd trust a person selling me a baseball card or comic book before I'd trust a shoe salesperson or car salesperson trying to sell me something.
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- Everyone buys cars, everyone buys shoes...4L8O15S16T23!42
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Shoes themselves are not novelty items, so for that reason, they're in a different category than the other trendy stuff.4L8O15S16T23!42
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(the fact that those type of companies that charge $200 for a pair of variant AF1's even exist is a testament to our society's incredible idiocy).
Greatest thing I've read all-day, thanks Flash.
Back to the Kobe IIIs, I have high hopes for these shoes. I haven't liked any Nike Kobe shoe until I actually put them on my feet. I just wish they come out with a colorway similiar to the first Zoom Kobe I colorway white/black/red.