JORDAN SHOES PRICES GOING INSANE? MEMBER VENTING...dont hate.

Originally Posted by ilovemykicks10

Originally Posted by ssgefiestoakagerger

Your wrong.

Despite the quality Jordan Brand uses it has no influence on the slumping economy. So don't include this with the topic.

The name Jordan, is a luxury. You can comment on the below-par quality all you want, but that's irrelevant to what the brand's stature in basketball. And since it's a luxury item and not a necessity, you don't need Air Jordan's for basketball shoes. There are many alternatives like Steve and Barry's or even season-end clearance items.

The only necessities making price adjustments in these tough economic times... Wal-Mart, department stores etc.

Similarily, you won't see, in times like these Louis Vuitton, Gucci or Giorgio Armani lowering there price to everyone can be wearing their names everywhere. You won't think of Las Vegas lowering it's wagers to attract more tourist.

And it's also a smart business move not to lower their prices in times like these (not to say that they would). While the economy is at the edge of three major auto giants folding, who in the right mind would still have the appetite to shell out $300+ for shoes like the 11/12 pack? Yet Nike/Jordan still has people knocking on their door for more. The demand is there and they're milking people in these tough times. If you can't deal with it, don't buy.
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Damn...so true. Jordan has never been cheap. It won't ever go down. Imagine if all the prices were a lot lower and everybody wore jordans like they were vans or chucks? I love wearing shoes that most people don't have or wear, but that's just my opinion.
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thats pretty much what i said ilovemykicks10, why would u want to wear $40 shoes just like every1 else. I know really its not about the price like my $190shoes are better than your $40 chucks, cuz it aint like that but i dont also want to have a shoe that everyone else has, because its affordable.
 
Originally Posted by ssgefiestoakagerger

Your wrong.

Despite the quality Jordan Brand uses it has no influence on the slumping economy. So don't include this with the topic.

The name Jordan, is a luxury. You can comment on the below-par quality all you want, but that's irrelevant to what the brand's stature in basketball. And since it's a luxury item and not a necessity, you don't need Air Jordan's for basketball shoes. There are many alternatives like Steve and Barry's or even season-end clearance items.

The only necessities making price adjustments in these tough economic times... Wal-Mart, department stores etc.

Similarily, you won't see, in times like these Louis Vuitton, Gucci or Giorgio Armani lowering there price to everyone can be wearing their names everywhere. You won't think of Las Vegas lowering it's wagers to attract more tourist.

And it's also a smart business move not to lower their prices in times like these (not to say that they would). While the economy is at the edge of three major auto giants folding, who in the right mind would still have the appetite to shell out $300+ for shoes like the 11/12 pack? Yet Nike/Jordan still has people knocking on their door for more. The demand is there and they're milking people in these tough times. If you can't deal with it, don't buy.
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steve and barrys declared bankruptcy a couple of months ago...
 
thanks for a lot of GOOD responses...im not Broke, im not ballin.
regardless of what some people wrote, its not all about hypebeasts too. (i dont buy every pair FOR SURE...I buy what i like)
luxurys are luxuries...bUT try and tell that to every mom and pop that is buying them for their KIDS. its easy to say, cant afford dont buy...but u all knowhow that story goes..
KIDS get KILLED for expensive things...
im just saying with all the fakes out there now a day...might as well lower the price a lil bit, let more people get a chance to wear shoes that are HOT anddont worry about who else got the same kicks...FAKES destroyed limited edition, rare OG colorways a long time ago..
just hook up all these COLLECTORS with more reasonable prices...thats all im saying...
 
forget luxury, my parents bought me one pair a year from payless, and then graduated to foot locker and it was usually a clearance pair, if it didnt' dropin september right before the school year, i had no chance of getting it, that's just the way it was....there should be no sympathy for parents who spendmoney they don't have on j's
 
Originally Posted by ssgefiestoakagerger

Your wrong.

Despite the quality Jordan Brand uses it has no influence on the slumping economy. So don't include this with the topic.

The name Jordan, is a luxury. You can comment on the below-par quality all you want, but that's irrelevant to what the brand's stature in basketball. And since it's a luxury item and not a necessity, you don't need Air Jordan's for basketball shoes. There are many alternatives like Steve and Barry's or even season-end clearance items.

The only necessities making price adjustments in these tough economic times... Wal-Mart, department stores etc.

Similarily, you won't see, in times like these Louis Vuitton, Gucci or Giorgio Armani lowering there price to everyone can be wearing their names everywhere. You won't think of Las Vegas lowering it's wagers to attract more tourist.

And it's also a smart business move not to lower their prices in times like these (not to say that they would). While the economy is at the edge of three major auto giants folding, who in the right mind would still have the appetite to shell out $300+ for shoes like the 11/12 pack? Yet Nike/Jordan still has people knocking on their door for more. The demand is there and they're milking people in these tough times. If you can't deal with it, don't buy.
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excellent rebuttal right there with all the points necessary to swing the argument, but u do have to really sympathise with wat the orginal poster has said. itis a really tough situation to look at the prices of kicks the way ther are now. but ur right.
 
as long as you have shoes like the motor sports , Chicago's and unc 23's and the 11/12 packs that will sell out pretty much everywhere on it'srelease day

then Jordan will never come down on prices , if anything the prices will go up like we are seeing on the new Jordan 2009 / 24 at $185 and trust me there willbe people there

buying them at that price when they release

if you was to go by Jordan sale's you would never know the economy was doing bad because the shoe's are selling out everywhere

if you take a look at all the shoe's that released this year with the exception of a few releases almost every Jordan release had people waiting inline's and the shoe's sold out so

would it be nice to pay less for some jay's , absolutely but , will it ever happen , absolutely not , no ,never in 23 millionyears............................peace
 
a lot of truth spoken on this thread, i agree that it would be nice if JB would drop the price a bit,
but i also see that they have no reason to. It's obvious that they don't care what price their selling
their kicks at because people will buy them anyway. They're just making money and that's what
running a business is all about.
 
Originally Posted by royalflush1230

Originally Posted by ssgefiestoakagerger

Your wrong.

Despite the quality Jordan Brand uses it has no influence on the slumping economy. So don't include this with the topic.

The name Jordan, is a luxury. You can comment on the below-par quality all you want, but that's irrelevant to what the brand's stature in basketball. And since it's a luxury item and not a necessity, you don't need Air Jordan's for basketball shoes. There are many alternatives like Steve and Barry's or even season-end clearance items.

The only necessities making price adjustments in these tough economic times... Wal-Mart, department stores etc.

Similarily, you won't see, in times like these Louis Vuitton, Gucci or Giorgio Armani lowering there price to everyone can be wearing their names everywhere. You won't think of Las Vegas lowering it's wagers to attract more tourist.

And it's also a smart business move not to lower their prices in times like these (not to say that they would). While the economy is at the edge of three major auto giants folding, who in the right mind would still have the appetite to shell out $300+ for shoes like the 11/12 pack? Yet Nike/Jordan still has people knocking on their door for more. The demand is there and they're milking people in these tough times. If you can't deal with it, don't buy.
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Damn......Your right......
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basically...no one is forcing to cop jordans, if you can't afford em, take your butt over to the clearance section.
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Yeah thats true the XX3 was a great shoe and I didnt mind paying $185 for them but some CDP sucks and those jordan 2009 are pure garbage and they expect to get$190 for them yeah right
 
yep, like dude said. JB is a luxury goods category. the damage to its brand equity outweighs the benefits of lowering the retail price. for example, i waslooking to invest a while back and read a report on how marlboro had cut its prices to compete with the generics and the repercussions of that. also, steve& barrys' had a diff. business model which hinged on hi volume sales/low margins.
 
i understand your venting .... but jordans are jordans .... and the more they limit them ....and more people talk about them ( niketalk ) more people want ....so if your biz was shoes ...you do the same thing .... BUT i understand where u coming form too ..
 
like it has been said before, if the shoes sell there is no reason for the prices to drop even we would all like that, but it wont happen
 
We are only a small fraction of the consumers that buy Jordans and JB is going to care less about what we want or think nothing we do can stop the wheels fromturning.
 
bottom line Nike is a business and if revenue keeps increasing why change the formula. The saying I believe is ...."if it ain't broke, don't fixit".
I really can't side with consumers on this because in all honesty "we"(not just us forum members) are the determining factor on Nikes revenue andtheir supposed "suggested retail". We don't have to buy their products but, because either we love it that much or we do it for status, we end upbuying it.
Big ups to Nike for getting their money...(im done with shoes after xi/xiis anyways..lol..)
On a side note, i think a lot of older folks like me can appreciate that back in the day parents put their foot down on what they wanted to spend on shoes oron anything for that matter. You had what you needed, nothing more nothing less.
 
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