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Lol this **** is so corny
Owner of resell company “West Coast Streetwear” mom is a VP at Nike - UPDATE - mom forced to step down
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It wouldn’t surprise me if not a thing changes about us little people’s ability to cop on release date
but it also wouldn’t surprise me if some of the Nike VP old farts did not even realize the extent of how bad it’s gotten, and now with this story and bad publicity, they get off their fat butts and do something about it.
On one hand, they release a shoe, it sells out day 1,business is good, life goes on.
But if a massive chunk of the inventory goes to bot boys and their core customers are stuck paying resale, that is bad for the overall health of the business in the big/long picture IMO. And this **** that’s been going on I’m sure is nothing new to a lot of Nikes employees but maybe the other 30 year veteran VPs didn’t know how bad it was. So maybe things will change... maybe
but it also wouldn’t surprise me if some of the Nike VP old farts did not even realize the extent of how bad it’s gotten, and now with this story and bad publicity, they get off their fat butts and do something about it.
On one hand, they release a shoe, it sells out day 1,business is good, life goes on.
But if a massive chunk of the inventory goes to bot boys and their core customers are stuck paying resale, that is bad for the overall health of the business in the big/long picture IMO. And this **** that’s been going on I’m sure is nothing new to a lot of Nikes employees but maybe the other 30 year veteran VPs didn’t know how bad it was. So maybe things will change... maybe
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That would cut out folks in smaller towns. People forgot, once upon a time, everything didn’t drop everywhere. Just stop buying resell and lay into folks that do.
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The fallout from this f up is not going to end soon obviously.
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So much misinformation in this thread and I think it's simply because newer generations of sneaker fans are just uneducated. I don't completely place blame on them as most og's have either quit the hobby, been ignored or just don't want anything to do with what the hobby has become.
This has been going on long before most of you even started collecting/buying sneakers and is nothing new. I'm sorry to break it to so many of you, but in this world people with money and connections will always have an advantage. If you don't like it either stop supporting the entities involved or do something about it.
Just to drop a little knowledge Nike absolutely does care that this stuff is happening and has done a lot over the past 15 years to try and prevent it. I'm not going to get into how I know, but those of you who have been on NT for a while already know my background.
This has been going on long before most of you even started collecting/buying sneakers and is nothing new. I'm sorry to break it to so many of you, but in this world people with money and connections will always have an advantage. If you don't like it either stop supporting the entities involved or do something about it.
Just to drop a little knowledge Nike absolutely does care that this stuff is happening and has done a lot over the past 15 years to try and prevent it. I'm not going to get into how I know, but those of you who have been on NT for a while already know my background.
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He was never a hustler to begin with lol . he was just a rich Square using his mom's credit card lol
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Not doubting you but can you give some solid examples of how Nike has worked to prevent this stuff ?
Cuz whether they have or haven’t, I don’t think anyone can dispute that if they truly wanted to dead it, they could’ve...
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Who is “Nike”? A person working for “Nike” was in on all this. No, “Nike” does not care
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Album sales is a bad comparison. I wouldn't even compare it to PS5/Consoles: If it wasn't for COVID, Series X and PS5 launches would've been a lot smoother/plentiful.
Here's what we know/ why there are some deeper concerns regarding "Herbert-gate":
-She "resigned", which is a prestigious-form of getting fired: Nike does not have to write a memorandum/ explain her firing (admission there was some wrong-doing that hurts the brand).
-From the photos of FSRs of Off-Whites, GRs, and his stupid admission of "finding four Air Mags in a random factory", it's clear that he used his mom's credentials/position and influence to get a lot of his inventory:
He oddly mentions "never using a discount", or that his mom was "too far up" to benefit which is an oddly specific defense and contradicts what he said earlier in the article when he boasts about "it's all about who you know in the area" and that people "can give you access to stuff that, like, a normal person would not have access to".
-We don't know anything about the 2018 disclosure, in terms of specifics and what Nike's policy. It could have been framed like a general sneaker boutique and was good enough.
-The article mentions Ann's promotion to VP/GM as "instrumental" to the Consumer Direct Offense. The business strategy is literally under their "investor" news ( https://news.nike.com/news/nike-consumer-direct-offense ).... No bueno if you're lying/ manipulating sales and numbers and a business model to investors....
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Inventory is still gonna get eaten up by bots. Nothing will change lol. Look at all these footsite releases. I dont know how anyone could ever check out manually
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BEAUTIFUL GIF.
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She held her recent job title only since last June . thus the influx of nikes / Jordan's .
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I’m just saying if it was a priority- if Nike actually cared to stop it - they could
Maybe it will become more of a priority, or maybe not
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Nike doesnt care stop that famb. I mean I get it, at the end of the day they’re in the business to sell shoes not track down what every store is doing. Buuuuut when it rises to an egregious level to where stores aren’t even selling to customers anymore and just unloading the stock from the delivery truck to Benjamin Kickz then that’s a problem. Nike could easily shut down accounts that are known to be backdooring. Resellers are getting more FSRs then stores
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they did their job. its is very hard and expensive to bot actual SNKRS app. But other sites like footlocker, champs ETC are the ones that get killed constantly. Which nike is not in control of
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It's been an ongoing problem (bots, backdoor, inventory flex, whatever other jigs there are). This just brings it to light x1000000. Test of time if it'll get better in terms of being able to cop on snkrs(online releases) from time to time. No one should be taking L's week after week (hype products).
Maybe Nike will explore pre-orders (no refund, cancellation, returns, final sale etc), well hopefully. That's probably the best (logically for the consumers' prospective) unless they release a million pairs lol.
Maybe Nike will explore pre-orders (no refund, cancellation, returns, final sale etc), well hopefully. That's probably the best (logically for the consumers' prospective) unless they release a million pairs lol.
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There are whole business dedicated to selling shoes Nike “sells” at quadruple the price. No, Nike doesn’t care about anything
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If Nike cared they would increase production. If a shoe you're selling for $100 can be tripled sometimes quadrupled day 1 immediately after release then that means you're leaving a lot of money out there on the table. Supply could double and still sell out.
They like the hype, don't get it twisted.
They like the hype, don't get it twisted.
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dont people buy shoes from Zadeh on NT? If anything he is worse. All backdoor and no bots.
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Explain how you know its hard to bot snkrs...
because it is impossible damn near to get anything off that app
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Admittedly don’t know **** about bots, but why can’t they just flag physical addresses and ban/block them for dup orders?
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The Only bot that works on SNKRS will set you back 20k. At least that's what I heard.
