You gotta be kidding me. I guess we can get back to the good ol' days of kids getting jacked and shot for their shoes again. BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Just in time for the NBA All-Star game -- featuring the return of Michael Jordan to all-star competition -- there's a new Air Jordan shoe. But a pair will cost you $200. Air Jordan is Nike's most successful brand of basketball shoes. But the latest -- the 17th model -- is a little different. Instead of a shoebox, it comes in a silvery metallic briefcase. Nike is shelling out $10 million in a national advertising campaign with TV spots created by filmmaker and basketball fan Spike Lee. The Michael Jordan shoe always sells out when a new version is introduced. In fact, years ago, Nike decided to move the launch day of its Air Jordans to Saturdays -- because of complaints that kids would skip school to line up for the shoe.
No mass-marketed tennis shoe is worth $200. And what's sadder is that a bunch of kids will get jobs just to buy these instead of putting their paycheck in the bank. If Jordan gave all proceeds to charity (the way Paul Newman does with his food products), I could maybe stomach this. But this is just the worst side of capitalism. Jordan should be ashamed of himself.
Interviewer: How do you sleep at night? MJ: On top of a pile of money, with many beautiful women. * Taken from a Simpsons Episode, where a TV Interviewer asks Reiner Wolfcastle the same question, after hearing that his new movie got hundreds of millions of dollars to make, and all it was is him standing in front of a brick wall for three hours. *
I'm glad you posted this OS. I read it earlier today and it just pisses me off. I wonder how many slave laborers they can pay with each pair of shoes.
That's got to be about $1,000 Canadian! Mark Cuban would have to work for a month at DQ to buy a pair! What mama is going to let her boy go out and get a $200 pair of runners that are going to stank in a month? Hmmmm. To the drawing board.
ahhh... supply and demand. I can proudly say I've never owned a pair of Jordans, never will. They seem to be getting uglier and uglier.
I have owned 10 pairs of Jordans (4 pair were the same style just different colors. I doubt I'll ever own another pair because like you said they keep getting more ugly plus $200 is too much to spend on single piece of clothing or apparel.
Yep...if there is no demand, then the supply goes up and the price goes down. The power is really in the consumers hands. Capitalism works. DaDakota
If people really want these shoes that badly... I don't fault Jordan for selling them. Change the culture... I'd be doing the same if I were him.
