Stores expect lines (for LeBron James sneakers)

ESPN ^ | 12-18-2003 | AP

[PermaRag]

Why bother with stores at all? Isn't one of the preferred methods of acquiring much-"needed" products such as these, to wait for some poor sap to buy them, and then steal them off of him? Would that be a "shoe-jacking"?

[cyborg]

Selling snake oil to the snake oil salesman??

[zeaal]

I recall vividly the "Air Jordan" phase of Nikes. Had a 12 year old at the time. LINESSSSS

[cyborg]

Okay I think I understand, the lack of understanding about buying $100 and $200 sneakers... awful memories of Furby is coming back to me. I recall feeling same way about paying $100 for a gremlin that says something akin to Hawaiian.

[petercooper]

anyone paying $110 for a pair of sneakers manufactured in some sweatshop by someone making 50 cents per hour with materials costing $1.27 is a MORON!

[Landru]

"Selling snake oil to the snake oil salesman??"

HA!
Cute...very "deep," too.

Lemme guess.

...you're the *gifted* one of the family, eh? :o)

[cyborg]

Not that gifted on a Saturday morning...

[Consort]

[Landru]

"Not that gifted on a Saturday morning..."

As mornings go cy, they don't get much better than Saturdays, y'know.

Suggestion.
How 'bout another cup of java?

...on me & I'll pour. {g}

[cyborg]

Wonder where Hildebeast is? Nevermind don't want to ruin my Saturday morning...

[FBD]

"...would that do?"

Aww, nuts!
...I wuz hopin' for a pair of them LeBron James sneakers!

[FBD]

"Anyone paying $110 for a pair of sneakers manufactured in some sweatshop by someone making 50 cents per hour with materials costing $1.27 is a MORON!"


That would make a great sandwich board protest sign! Put that on, and stand in front of a Foot Locker store, down at the mall.
I'll give ya 5 minutes...maybe!
:)

[scholar]

Wow so next time I see people lining up for concert tickets, hockey tickets, and world series pix I should ask myself the same question. BUT I suppose in this case it's okay.

Yeah, you probably should and no it's not okay. I have no problem whatsoever with needy people receiving public assistance. However, when people as able bodied as I are on the public dole walking around in designer clothes and gold jewelry, I have to wonder why they can't feed their own kids or pay for their own healthcare.

[cyborg]

walking around in designer clothes and gold jewelry

***Probably phony crap from Canal St. in NYC, where they make a lot of knock offs. Oh well, I see your point and you're probably right. People are forever asking why the local community college has so many expensive cars and all that. I'd say poor people buying designer sneakers,clothes,etc. do not have their priorities in order and that's why they're poor.

[Jarhead_22]

Who?

[scholar]

***Probably phony crap from Canal St. in NYC, where they make a lot of knock offs.

Don't know about that--I live in NW Indiana which is a seriously economically depressed area since the steel mills went down the tubes.

As you said, it is a matter of priorities. I still have a rabbit ear antenna for my TV. I would much rather pay my electric bill than have cable, but I work with people who have had their water and telephone shut off while they still maintain their Direct TV!--go figure.

[MississippiMan]

YES--in the healthcare facility where I work, the Medicaid recipients wear better clothes and shoes than I can afford.

Absolutely. The free-lunch kids get dropped off at school in new Cadillacs. I stand behind people in grocery store checkouts with my hamburger meat, watching them pay for hundreds of dollars worth of overpriced junk food, pre-cooked food, etc., with food stamps. And our taxes are constantly jacked so the whole mess can be expanded to a grander scale.

Meanwhile, someone who was simply born with the ability to bounce a ball and toss it through a ring, gets paid $90,000,000 to say he LIKES a shoe.

Our society is a mess.

MM

[scholar]

Our society is a mess.

Dear MM

You just hit one of my many hot buttons. As much as I hate to sound like an old fart, I have seen our society and basic decency dissipate before my eyes in the last 30+ years. It breaks my heart to think of the world that my grandchildren will live in years from now.

[MississippiMan]

I'm with you, Scholar. I'm 44, and the country we live in today--from a perspective of values and morality and decency and responsibility--is like an entirely different nation than the one in which I grew up.

There will always be those who say, "Yeah, but society has always been in a state of change." Change, yes. Unraveling at the seams? NO. We're in a mess.

MM