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Thay damn video is from may 2013.
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Been out of the sneaker game....
I bet you were "collecting" to be cool
Jordans coming out with remastered line higher quality to combat the gm market tho we good
Now that Western companies are pervasively outsourcing the manufacture of their products to factories overseas, they're entrusting their precious intellectual property - designs, molds, specifications, trade secrets - to hundreds of contractors and subcontractors all over the world. It's extremely hard to police global supply chains, and IP is leaking out through 1,000 cracks.
The simplest and most dramatic form of the problem is something that Asia-based investigators jocularly refer to as the "third shift," the "midnight shift," or the "ghost shift." Say a U.S. company orders 20,000 dresses from an overseas factory. The contractor fills the order during its two day shifts but then runs off 10,000 extra at night, possibly using inferior materials. Those he sells out the back door, so to speak, trademark and all.
Sometimes even brand owners can't tell whether an unauthorized product is a counterfeit (a product bearing a trademark that its maker never had authority to use) or the result of third-shift activity.
In late 2001, for instance, Too Inc., which runs the Limited Too chain of clothing stores for girls, discovered that discounter TJ Maxx was selling 31 styles of Limited Too apparel at markdowns - 653,000 garments. TJ Maxx was stocking many more units than Too had ever ordered from its Asian suppliers, and what Too had ordered was still being sold in its own stores.
When Too sued TJ Maxx to stop sales, though, its lawyers candidly admitted that they weren't sure whether the clothes were counterfeits or third-shift goods. Though discounters can always be enjoined from selling counterfeits, some judges will let them sell third-shift goods unimpeded, viewing the latter as legally "genuine."
Even in its wider sense, the third shift is a subset of a broader problem: the countless ways in which companies lose control of intellectual property when relying on an outsourced supply chain. IP leakage is the glitch in the ascendant paradigm for doing business.
"When you're outsourcing, you provide specifications, drawings, blueprints," says Peter Humphrey, who runs a risk-management firm in Shanghai called ChinaWhys. "What can easily happen is, someone takes it down the road to his brother or uncle," who also has a factory. "Before you know it, there's ten or 20 factories in that county making knockoffs of your product."
Brand owners typically don't admit to having suffered from third-shift or other IP-leakage problems. "It makes you seem like you've been an idiot," explains professor Chow. "These are people you've hired. You didn't exercise due diligence." Most brand owners approached for this story either declined to discuss the issue or denied experiencing the problem.
there is no gray market.... its all done in the same place...
back door deals overtime production equals todays marketplace.. its quite simple...
nike/jordan lowered the quality of materials used therefore it has become easier for knockoffs to pass as authentic because its using the same materials.. slightly different cuts but overall 98 percent exact same shoe...
10 years ago knockoffs were so bad they were literally an eyesore from a black away,,,, now u gotta smell the inside of the sneaker to find out if its legit.. lol
havent bought a pair of NIKES in 2 years or so..
want to buy some knicks foams but ill wait til they go down a bit.. they're sitting hard...
Jordans coming out with remastered line higher quality to combat the gm market tho we good
Just have to pay 200 before taxes jordans are a joke now
@dankenstein88
Sarcasm detector broke huh
It's not that serious
nike runs the fake industry as well ...they produce their own fakes
Whomp whomp, I buy shoes, wear them, do it again. No collecting. Bet you call buying shoes a "game"
We came from a simpler time, man. Back when I was into it, you get retros in mostly OG colorways once a few months. Even then at $125, it was hard to swallow. Moms wasn't going to be spending that much money for sure I also looked forward to the new Jordan model (kept up until the 18 or 19 when I was a senior in HS).This is what blows my mind, the same kicks cars were getting clowned for back in the day are dropping in retail locations and selling out.
Not sure if fakes are stepping up or nike/jordan's quality going down.