ignorance in action...So, now we know the real value of Obama’s “tax cuts”!!
I attended an inner-city public high school in the early 90’s.
While I was poor, my shoes came from KMart and Payless, every thug in the joint always had brand new $100 a pair shoes.
And gold teeth...
Did they accept EBT cards?
stupid
As though shoes will make it all better or indicate you are “cool”
Sorry there has never been a product that I have waited in line for hours to buy.
Be it an iPhone or Air Jordans I will wait at home until the madness is over and then I will go to the store. (by the way I have not bought either)
I almost never buy any product until it has been on the market for about a year. I want to know it is a dependable product before I buy.
I suspect that some of these people are collectors which I find ridiculous. Basketball shoes will crumble in to dust in about fifty years even if not worn because of the material of manufacture. Why collect an object that has such a short shelf life.
ignorance in action...OUR tax money being spent on $200 dollars sneakers - I am so sick of “the poor” having better more expensive items than me.
How about we start a FRiendly pool about when we will see the first story of someone being killed in a fight with someone over a pair of these?
I remember back in the early 70’s I saved enough money and bought a pair of Puma’s for $25. My parent’s thought I was crazy. That was when everyone was wearing Converse’s for $10.
I’d like to see HHS out there pulling Food Stamp people out of line...... not gonna happen.
At my son’s high school, there is a trend that I just find plain weird and stupid. “Retro” Jordans can go (on Ebay) for $500 dollars. Yes, five hundred dollars. I can’t remember the exact model but they are the first year of them. Here is the crazy part IMHO: some of these kids have purchased USED retro Jordan for $250 - $300. Some other person’s feet have been in them. We’re not talking about someone else trying them on for size. We’re talking about them being worn for an extensive period of time. Ewwww!
People are such morons.
People get killed for fancy shoes in the hood.
and I bet the vast majority of these people are on one form of government assistance or another....
I once bought a pair of the cheapest sneakers at Walmart for about $10, garish things with green stripes all over them. I wore them when I went into one of the public housing projects in Minneapolis and a couple of dudes started raving about how cool they were and where did I get them. I hated to tell them the truth.
Speaking of retro shoes, I once owned two pairs of the original Oregon Waffles. My kids and I wore them at track meets and they got loaned to several other kids. They finally disappeared somewhere in the mists of time, but I suppose they would bring big bucks today. The secret to getting rich seems to be to never throw anything away.
Just had to look up Oregon Waffles on ebay. One pair of the yellow and green originals that I had, Buy it Now for $600. (Sigh)
Made in a Chinese sweatshop for pennies on the dollar, shipped via some foreign cargo-line and then trucked across states by who knows who. Compared to the people who work in the factories who produce this fadwear, every single occupy protestor is a one-percenter and every welfare-ghettobanger is ‘the man’.