His cousin, Diontaye Thompson, says "You can see how the world is like changing, people killing over sneakers."
sneaker game these days:
1. reseller sky high price
2. limited quantity
3. camp out
4. riot/killing/fighting over a pair of shoes
5. price increase, quality decrease
), resellers potentially catching on late, no casing shoe lines, no violence, PROBLEM SOLVED! Nike may not get a 1st day sellout but believe the culture is mainstream enough big shoes will sell out within a few weeks. Plus the stores themselves will get people stopping in more frequently instead of just that saturday causing that "see and purchase" impulse more often. RANDOM RELEASE DATES!!!
Nike should come out and ban shops from allowing lineups.
he got killed for the $ not the shoes. they robbed the whole line. they all got free shoes tho. the price of the shoe made em a target cause every1 had at least $220+ tax on em.His cousin, Diontaye Thompson, says "You can see how the world is like changing, people killing over sneakers."
sneaker game these days:
1. reseller sky high price
2. limited quantity
3. camp out
4. riot/killing/fighting over a pair of shoes
5. price increase, quality decrease
ppl in pittsburgh really dont camp over nite for sneaks. if ppl gon risk sleeping outside for some shoes wit $ on em. An most shoes stores not in a mall r in the hood/city were its bad too. they gotta expect weirdos is gon b out. i feel bad for dem ppl but no1 should camp 4 shoes overnite.
That does sound like a good idea; man if its like this now: I can only imagine how its gonna be for the Bred VI's & XI's; I hate to pay resellers, but don't wanna get kill'd over no kicksALL of this and I do mean ALL of this can be stopped by one simple action, RANDOM RELEASE DATES!!! Nobody knows when the shoe gets released until a store gets shipment and the store puts them on shelves. People randomly run into the shoe, no lineups, no employee's holding pairs (actually this will still probably happen, may get worse), resellers potentially catching on late, no casing shoe lines, no violence, PROBLEM SOLVED! Nike may not get a 1st day sellout but believe the culture is mainstream enough big shoes will sell out within a few weeks. Plus the stores themselves will get people stopping in more frequently instead of just that saturday causing that "see and purchase" impulse more often. RANDOM RELEASE DATES!!!
P.S. I know this wouldn't solve EVERY problem but its damn sure a start.
Exactly. Even if he was robbed and killed for his shoes, it's not something that's all of a sudden happening. It's been happening since the 80's. SI did a cover story on people getting robbed and killed for Air Jordans back in the day. People were getting killed over wearing BK's (British Knights) back in the 90's.
