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Thanks for your post as always BIP Roberts, they're well thought out.
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ayyyyyy bips still postin essays!!!!!Yeah.
Honestly, I don't even think they are that dreadful on their own But, it's not an AF1.
I understand that the AF1 isn't as strong as it once was, but it still moves a lot of units and has a presence. It's weird to me that Nike is so willing to lend the credibility of their premier products to subpar products within the brand. Often times in business, it seems that the concern is in the other direction - do not dilute your brand (and certain Nike models are established enough that they are essentially their own sub brands) by associating with garbage. General belief seems to be that such actions increase short term success, while killing the brand long term (look what happened to Coogi when Phat Farm bought it). But, Nike seems very willing to do it. To me, that tells me that they don't think too highly of their customers (I don't blame them, I don't think too highly of most of these dweebs either). They feel like they can drag their legacy through the mud without risk, and that their base will either bite at the bait, or simply not hold it against the brand. If Nike felt their customers were highly educated and discriminating, they wouldn't do this. ...Ralph Lauren pimped the Bear out this year - the bring-it-back sweater was fine, but then he threw it on a million cheap standard polos in place of standard small horsey. I wasn't feeling that, but it hadn't been done for a while. We'll see if that trend continues.
I've said this a million times before, but customers/hobbyists/self-proclaimed "collectors" get the state of affairs they deserve. Nike runs their signature models through the mud with hybrids because they know that their base doesn't have the willpower, discipline, and commitment to standards to hold them accountable, hold on to their money or spend it elsewhere, or make it hurt.
Essentially, this is the devil that comes with the mainstreaming of your hobby. A lot of us in this thread actually do hold the values I reference above, but our voices don't matter because we are such a small minority.
Bip,
What are those navy mid jewels with the fading swoosh? Sick.
Doodadee.....wow. Just wow.
ayyyyyy bips still postin essays!!!!!
Havent been in this place in like 2 years.. things change but things REALLY DO STAY THE SAME!!![]()
Bip,
I was unfamiliar with that website you linked me to. I am blown away - there are some really, really obscure and awesome sneakers on there. Also surprised (but maybe not really considering what type of stuff they post) to see my own eBay auction pics on there.
snidehead is my website. it's kind of archive of the shoes I saw but I didn't heard about. I used pics from af-ones.blogspot.com. I always added source. I also published there my latest pick ups
Nice Escapes Dakid, those remind me of a good era of sneakers.
Anyone in here wear size 12?
*raises both hands**raises hand*
if there are pairs from before 2000 i'd be super curious. and super salty.
Everytime I see posts like that I just wonder WHAT IF? I'm pretty sure that any mom and pop shop that had anything worth digging through in the back in my town lost everything 9 years ago when the city went to hell after the storm. At best I'd get a crack at terrible stuff from 06 on. Case in point the oldest locally run shop which sits in building that was an old school department store from the early 1900s through 198x broke out the AF1 25th Anniversary Gold Pack for their window display. Had the shop not taken water in 05 who knows what kind of awesome they'd be able to pull out of the back.
What's your IG bip?
Need to scoop you a DSLR bip.
Dope mids
Got my sneaker nerd on today.
Was embarrassed af. I took the pics as fast as possible
G/l to akademicgenius for the oop on the flax]