We need someone thats knows some good Nike Corporate numbers. If I were that guy, I would have called corporate while I was in their store. I'm going to ramble a little, so bear with me. And while the outcome may not have changed for him and his pair of shoes, maybe a manager or employees would have been fired and held accountable.
Again, this isn't a highly desired shoe, but in a few times I've met resistance from a store, I've called their corporate office and threaten to call the local news.
First and only time I had the bright idea of going to a Black Friday sale, I was at a Circuit City in Houston around 2004. Needless to say, they had some lame excuse about certain DVDs, video games, and CDs. After standing in line for 2 hrs and hearing they weren't honoring it, I flipped my f**king lid. Right before I stepped out of line, I said loudly if anyone had the number to locally news because they'd love this story. About a minute later a manager asked me to come to the back room with them and started making excuses such as it has the restrictions in the flyer and Best Buy wasn't honoring either. Well, after telling them I didn't care what BB was doing because I wasn't standing in their line and the manager's inability to locate these so-called "restrictions" their flyer, they sold me the 3 CDs, 3 DVDs and 2 video games for like $60-70.
Another time was at Abercrombie and the idiot didn't take the censor off. Anyway, I didn't like the jeans and tried to exchange the pair with the receipt and the manager would exchange them. So, not only was I pissed about the cashier's dumb a**, but the manager was an idiot, too. So, after a nice shouting match, I called corporate in front if her face and miraculously I was able to exchange the jeans and also get a gift certificate for my troubles.
The best one is when I had paint issues in a few areas on a brand Accord I bought way back '00. I'll save long details, but I called Honda corporate after not greeting very far with the dealer and a corporate rep they sent to look at my vehicle. I broke out my owners manual and called their number. Told the lady my issue and a week later got a call back. They replaced my car with a brand new '01 after I had my '00 for 9 months and put $18,000 on it.
Would this method get him his pair of MVPs? Not too sure. However, it's possibly local media may like the story when they find out what reseller's prices are and hopefully stories like these become national news(portably not likely lol) Remember when national media outlets ran all the stories about the Concords, Galaxies ect? While maybe remote, it may cause Nike to fire some people, force one of those pairs sold to an employee to return their pair, or conjure up a stowed away pair from their little vault at Nike. Wishful thinking, but you just never know.
