Official Reebok Kamikaze II Thread AKA "Reignmans"

jerusareem said:
funny story

Me and my boy from Seattle went to Major in DC to cop these and they had a few pair left. Im a 9.5 and he is a 10.5 and he got the last 10.5. So as we are chillin and talkin to the employees in walks in Trinidad James and he goes right for the kamikazes. The employee asks him what size he needs and he says a 10.5. My boy has the last 10.5 LOL...so they tell James that hes out of luck unless my boy doesnt buy them. As i said my friend jsut moved to DC from seattle and there was no way in hell he was giving them up. So we both walked out of there happy as hell while Trinidad James was cussing under his breath haha. But he was cool tho we took some pics with him
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Should have told his publicist to to grab them for him... In any event, he can afford to pay resellers prices lol. Congrats for y'all for walking away with y'all pairs though.
 
I hope, for those of you that missed out, that the FTL info turns out to be true. If not, settle for the OG black/whites. They're just as nice as the OG Sonics colorway IMO. If I didn't get the OG Sonics I would've been cool with getting the black/whites. The ASGs will be the only other pair I cop. Hopefully Reebok will retro the Kamikaze 1s soon.
 
Got my shipping confirmation from rbk.com and called jimmy jazz to ask about my order and it appears I got both pairs. I guess ill just hook up the old head at my job with one of these since he wanted them too
 
Karmaloop sent my shipping confirmation :pimp:

Anyone in Texas know of any spots in Houston with these still. :nerd: Might call in a favor from a friend but don't wanna have him wasting his time for no reason.
 
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Long shot here but Sneaker Politics accepting phone orders for these Sonics

Phone:   337-993-3709 (Lafayette Location)
Phone:  225-761-3007 (Baton Rouge Location)
 
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Just got an email from reebok saying that they oversold and I'm not getting the shoes :frown:
 
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Marco23 said:
Just got an email from reebok saying that they oversold and I'm not getting the shoes
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Yep I called Reebok earlier today and the lady told me they oversold their stock.  She said they haven't been given to much information and i should have an email by Wednesday if they are going to be able to fill my order or not.  
 
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onin said:
its called marketing strategy....nike does it too!

limiting initial release guarantees higher sale on the follow up releases

common man simple business lol
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You clearly have no business sense. And bucknuteagle summed up exactly what I was saying. (See below) 
bucknuteagle said:
I'm sure that any and everyone who comes to this board is well aware of Nike's strategy of limited releases. I think what the person you quoted is saying is that Reebok had a chance to differentiate themselves from Nike instead of trying to imitate them. The hyper limited quickstrike strategy does work, but it is far from the only possible course that they could have taken. If you have a beloved colorway of a model it makes sense to make it widely available and then to limit production of newer colorways to draw attention to them. This is what Nike does with most of their retros. Most original colorways are relatively easy to get if you're in any way persistent about acquiring them, but some retro+ colorways are surprisingly limited.

What Reebok chose to do is what Nike does with its signature models (Kobe's, KD's, Lebron's). The highly sought after colorways are also the most limited. Granted at this point it's hard to separate limited availability with someone actually liking the sneaker, but I digress. The basic home/away colors of the sigs are widely available, but the especially vivid and loud colorways draw attention to the line overall with their exclusivity.

I think that at this point I'm not sure if Reebok made the right choice of marketing strategies. They could have mass produced this colorway (which people were clearly champing at the bit for). To help bring attention to the new colorways that most people, to be blunt, couldn't give a **** about. The lone exception in their current Kamikaze II lineup that will be released later is the Black/Red. That is one LOUD sneaker. I would have put a full force marketing campaign behind it and released it in highly limited fashion, and then let the rest of the Kamikaze II releases sales ride off of that.

I think Reebok's mistake here might be underestimating just how much nostalgia (and the feigned nostalgia for a time that you weren't born for now popularized by hipsters) can drive the sales of a release like this. I'll use myself as an example of this. I never watched Shawn Kemp play, I'm not from Seattle, and I'm not a Sonics fan. I also never bought Reeboks as a kid; for me it was generally Jordan's or some Shaq's from payless with nothing in between. But this is undoubtedly a ridiculously great looking sneaker. Knowing that this is an OG colorway and being able to see Shawn Kemp on cards and watch videos of him in these, makes me want this colorway specifically. All of the retro+ stuff I can take it or leave it because it's nice, but there's no history there. Ultimately what I'm saying is that Reebok could've easily let history sell large numbers of this sneaker, and put a great marketing and hype campaign behind their new retro+ colorways.

TL;DR

Reebok should've made more of these because those retro+ colors are probably going to sit HARD.
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You summed it up perfectly. Repped.
air force baller said:
u had chances 2 weeks before the release date, pre order with no tax plus free shipping at YCMC, PYS, Culture Kings. plus it sat a few days at YCMC.
Reebok classic provided as info on where the shoes r gonna release,
Reebok aint no joke, Reebok is the ****. lol
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Look, I don't fool with YCMC. PYS sold out before I had a chance to get there. Did you not read that I called the REEBOK CALL CENTER?!?!
REBOUND KING91 said:
but then again, how much longer will it last? Reebok has only so many classics...their new models are straight garbage and unappealing
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Exactly, That's why their marketing on this made NO sense.
 
John00 said:
You clearly have no business sense. And bucknuteagle summed up exactly what I was saying. (See below) 

You summed it up perfectly. Repped.

Look, I don't fool with YCMC. PYS sold out before I had a chance to get there. Did you not read that I called the REEBOK CALL CENTER?!?!

Exactly, That's why their marketing on this made NO sense.
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do you want a cookie? lol
 
CJDynasty said:
Yea all four retro + color ways come out on Feb 1st
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The black/whites nor the navy/whites are retro+ colorways. Not sure if the black/reds drop on the same date but they aren't retro+ either. The 3 I just mentioned are retros of OG colorways.
 
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