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Nike's new $110 Colin Kaepernick sneakers sell out in MINUTES and pairs are now being resold online for up to $950 as his supporters joke: 'I thought Kap was bad for business'
DM ^ | 12/24/2019 | alex raskin

Posted on 12/24/2019 10:37:42 AM PST by RummyChick

Colin Kaepernick may not have an NFL job, but the social activist and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback is proving he's still marketable as his new $110 Nike sneaker bearing his image sold out within minutes of its release on Monday.

Nike sold the shoes at its own stores, select retailers and via the SNKRS app. The sneakers can be acquired for resale, but one website, FlightClub.com, is asking as much as $950 for a pair.

Some retailers have agreed to donate profits to charities supported by the outspoken Kaepernick.

Nike has not released sales figures, but the Air Force 1 x Colin Kaepernick, which has his black-and-white likeness emblazoned on the back, is currently unavailable in North America, according to multiple reports.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: anthem; kaepernick; nfl; nike
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To: RummyChick

Wow! Are they in negotiations with Beau Bergdahl?
He should make Nike gazillions!


41 posted on 12/24/2019 11:35:51 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Republican Party: Freeing Americans since 1865.)
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To: RummyChick

We white people call it the “Stupid Tax”.


42 posted on 12/24/2019 11:36:05 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: RummyChick

The insanity of it all.


43 posted on 12/24/2019 11:40:24 AM PST by Maudeen (http://ThereIsHopeinJesus.com/)
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To: SecAmndmt

“our social pathologies can largely be blamed on white liberals who crafted the welfare state and ushered in the destruction of the black family.”

Bingo.


44 posted on 12/24/2019 11:48:31 AM PST by TheTimeOfMan (The Eloi unexpectedly protected the Morlocks from rogue Eloi as they themselves prepared to be eaten)
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To: clamper1797

Fools indeed. Fact is this isn’t, as Nike says, the anniversary of his knee taking. Nope, nope, nope. Even little ol’ me found and posted pictures of him taking a knee and sitting it out years earlier. He’s just a lazy bum who can’t be bothered to stand. It was his muzzy gf who scrambled to come up with an excuse for his laziness.


45 posted on 12/24/2019 12:21:03 PM PST by bgill
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To: All

This is very surprising (assuming it is actually true).

Because the kind of people who love Colin Kaepernick and love to have the newest , flashiest sneakers, don’t usually actually buy them.

If you get my drift.


46 posted on 12/24/2019 12:30:06 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: RummyChick

Nike is just playing to their most loyal demographic.


47 posted on 12/24/2019 12:31:47 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: RummyChick

Good for business with the inner city underclass feral species of animals.


48 posted on 12/24/2019 12:39:55 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: Larry Lucido

Fools and YOUR money. You do not think they are paying for that crap with wages from a job, do you?


49 posted on 12/24/2019 12:41:33 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: RummyChick

But CK is still on the sidelines. He won’t be remembered for his athletic skills.


50 posted on 12/24/2019 12:52:38 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: CatOwner

New Balance has done the best by me in terms of shoes.

I doubt I’ve ever had a pair of Nikes.


51 posted on 12/24/2019 12:54:40 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: RummyChick

To the people who bought these shoes, you define PT Barnum’s quote of “A fool and his money are soon parted.”

JoMa


52 posted on 12/24/2019 1:13:56 PM PST by joma89
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To: doorgunner69

There are suckers born apparently faster then every minute who knew....


53 posted on 12/24/2019 1:15:16 PM PST by truegris (***The teleprompter is smarter then him***)
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To: RummyChick

There’s one born every minute.


54 posted on 12/24/2019 1:15:31 PM PST by Dave911
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To: RummyChick
I'll keep my New Balance, thank you very much!


55 posted on 12/24/2019 1:18:02 PM PST by Drew68
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To: RummyChick

No Nike anything for me!


56 posted on 12/24/2019 1:31:53 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: SecAmndmt

The same morons who used to make $Millions$ tossing a brown ball around a wooden court and now wash cars for a living because they had to had everything that was thrown at them.


57 posted on 12/24/2019 1:46:57 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: RummyChick

There’s also a No. 7 hangtag, Kaepernick’s jersey number.


58 posted on 12/24/2019 2:05:13 PM PST by deport
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To: RummyChick

Kap is a typical lefty hypocrite: slams the US for an occasional police misdeed, but profits from shoes manufactured by cheap labor in a country filled with slave camps, and sold in the US at an enormous mark-up.


59 posted on 12/24/2019 2:33:13 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Zuriel
And I would think it might be dangerous to wear them in certain neighborhoods, where buying such shoes would not be necessary for Robin (in the) Hood type folks.

Many years ago, before Air Jordans, some guy wanted to take my shoes in Chicago. They were Clyde Frazier Pumas, black suede with a red stripe. By unhappy coincidence, they happened to be Chicago Bulls colors. They were also the most comfortable, and the only wide enough sneakers I ever owned. Then Puma moved production to Red China. No more.
60 posted on 12/24/2019 3:11:47 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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