Recent content by surforia

This is incorrect.  You can only write off the difference between what you paid and the FMV, so in 2011, Nike's documentation provided that the MSRP (FMV) was $1,000.  Accordingly, if you had bid $5,000, you could only write off $4,000.  It's the same concept with any charitable donation - the...

Huey Lewis on Kimmel too! Awesome.

Actually, Michael J. Fox WILL be wearing power-lacing Mags today, not in 2016.

Great letter.  Loved the BTTF reference that "you can do anything if you put your mind to it."  I can't imagine how emotional that must have been for MJF to read - it's really so sad to see him suffering with this disease, but hopefully stuff like this brings him, and others with the disease...

You can only write-off the excess of what you paid over the fair market value of the shoes.  So if the MSRP (or whatever value Nike lists a document they provide to you) was $1,000 and you paid $5,000, you could write-off $4,000.

Yeah, raising money for charity is so lame. 

Doubt it because the original movie shoe wasn't self-lacing. They had dudes under the Delorean pulling strings (literally) to actualize the effect.

Never joined NT but been following the boards for years, and this thread in particular since it started.  I'm a massive BTTF fan and missed out on the 2011 pairs, but the 2011 release is what got me into sneakers.  I literally didn't even know Nike was releasing Retro Jordans before the 2011...