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the black pair is a must i would like to get these but 500 no way in H E double hockey sticks
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Originally Posted by rhcp729
Originally Posted by metalmaned
Originally Posted by rhcp729
what lesson is it teaching him though? he paid what he had to for the shoes, and sold them at HIS price. people didn't have to buy them. but we sold out of them rather fast, and had over 100 people line up. when we annoucned the price, people didn't flinch, because they WANTED these shoes. there's no one to blame here but jordan brand, don't point the finger at our store. and i know it's not against me, but i do collect a paycheck from them each month.
Lets break it down...
The retail price on these shoes was $230 which means the stores bought them for wholesale at roughly $125/pair, I'm not 100% sure that is what they wholesaled at but it's within $5.
So a store selling them at retail price would make a profit of roughly $105 on each pair which would be a total of $2415 after selling their 23 pairs which is pretty damn good money.
Now R-Sole sold them for $500 which gave them a profit of roughly $375 per pair which comes out to a total of $8625 for all 23 pairs that sold. So basically they made $6210 MORE PROFIT then stores that sold them at RETAIL. It would take 3 1/2 stores selling them at retail to make as much profit as they did off 23 pairs of shoes.
Now if you don't think JB is going to look into this and they can/will possibly take action and decide to no longer sell your store JB products to sell in it... Then I'd say that would be a pretty valuable lesson to your owner not to screw people over. Yes people paid the price and yeah he made a quick $8600 but in the long run he could potentially lose out on hundreds of thousands in profit from selling JB mechandise and I don't know about you but I'd take the latter of those choices myself!!!!
And you are absolutly right in a way JB is to blame because they should have ONLY released these shoes at NIKE STORES so that they could actually control these shoes releasing so if that happened your store would have never gotten them and your owner wouldn't have had a chance to be the super greedy person he is. But the fact remains, JB decided not to sell them at just Nike locations and gave your store the "hook up" to be one of the "Top 23 JB Stores" in the country and this is how your owner repaid them for the hook up. Your owner was the one that set the price that these shoes sold for out of your store so I still can "point the finger" at him and your store for selling them for that much...
Originally Posted by playmaker09
I hear you but that would be like $3000 at least.Originally Posted by jaysonisfly
the only way i'll pay over 1k if its the #23 pair. has anybody found it yet?
Can't believe D'Wayne Edwards said these are for the "loyal consumers."
Yeah and after his mediocre designs on the past 2 J's he should've been demoted to designing and commenting on ONLY Team Jordans
I wonder how JB feels about the stores charging more then retail or if they even care at all.
All the people in charge of that company care about are themselves, thats been proven over and over...
hmmm...MJ talking about their "commitment to build the best products"...
I guess he means only the Air Jordan line, because they certainly don't keep that commitment with all their other crappy shoes the past few years...
Originally Posted by Super Producer J
I think NT, JB forum, whatever, needs to bring this directly to JB. It could be a petition to release these as a GR, or some other form of protest, but how much of this can loyal customers continue to stomach? Does anyone think it feasible to even try and get something going? But here I am, thinking of petitioning to possibly spend my own money. Its really not all that funny though.
There was a petition to block the release of the Thunder/Lighning IVs. Looking back, that was pretty dumb and a wasted effort for such a horrible shoe. Why did we care that JB was releasing trash? Those that didn't like it, didn't buy it. However, this situation is a complete turn around. There are just too few to go around. And not only that, many of these pairs were whored out for extravagant prices right out the store.
I seriously think we, or someone, should do something about this, instead of just speculating a later GR release. What say you, NT?
good thinking. im pretty sure number 23,1,529, and 45 were given away to jordan brand members. maybe even number 230. so i guess the next best thing IS230 if they havent given that away or 217 for MJs birthday (and my birthday)Originally Posted by The Warehouse 13
Originally Posted by playmaker09
I hear you but that would be like $3000 at least.Originally Posted by jaysonisfly
the only way i'll pay over 1k if its the #23 pair. has anybody found it yet?
I doubt it was sold in one of the 23 stores. They prob gave it to MJ himself. If not, my guess would be somebody from Nike/JB has it. Probably also explains, why so many unnumbered pair were included in U.S. shipments. Just a guess.
Those White/ red's are mids...def not lows
Yeah and they should be red around the ankle to help balance them more...but what do I know
Originally Posted by PO2345
I'll leave my two cents.....Take it for what it's worth. No offense to FlipJays....But he might be wrong in this case.... Those un-numbered pairs you guys have or see pop up, they are apart of THIS initial release.....So what i'm trying to say is that, "all 1058 of the Titanium XX3's were NOT numbered, just half, which is 529. I do not believe there will be another release for this particular colorway, but there are other colorways i feel are nicer/better than these that will release months later. So if you want them, you should have obtained them if you could, or bid away on everyone's favorite site. Regarding the All-Star's release, as i have said earlier, the numbers will be EXACTLY like the QS XX's....Basically a Limited GR....They are not a LS in any form or fashion...You should be able to obtain these fairly easy... While the Stealth's are a GR. Hope that clears up all the confusion & pure speculation floating around. PO