I was being sarcastic because you said something so asinine, the paraphrased “be better at buying shoes” is where I pulled the bot line from. Those people are part of an unsolved problem, in spite of what Nike says.
I stand by my statement in putting a small part of the blame on Vanessa...
I am in agreement that she should have responsibility in access but of the 100% of the blame, it is not more than 5%. 95% is on Nike. Social media is just a way to let Vanessa and Nike know people, myself included aren't happy with the lack of access to honor one of our favorite players.
It is my dream shoe, and I will not buy unless I know 100% of the profits go to the Jackie Robinson Foundation or if I somehow bought at retail price, I'd match the donation, or I'd pay above market if the seller matched the price of the shoe as the donation. It's the one rule I will not break.
Remember those Jackie Robinson Griffey's, where the money went the Jackie Robinson foundation? Look those up on SNKRS and think of how much good could be done if there was no resale market. Makes me sick.
I saw it on instagram, where it was the deal where there were two posters @vanessabryant & @nike or maybe @nikebasketball it very well could have been late 2022 early 2023 when these got the first pro images. She said the goal going forward was for all Kobe releases to be accessible to fans and...
****, I think you gotta actually want to play to be washed. I have bone on bone in one knee and a rebuilt ankle in the other. Football was a choice. Should have stuck with baseball, so I could hoop for fun now.
To my knowledge, I brought up Vanessa pretty early today so I'll address this and say if this person thinks I reported them, they need to get a life. I stand by my comments, Nike yields the majority of the blame and Vanessa should have not talked about the shoes being accessible to Kobe's fans...
When there is a solution so simple, blame should be distributed to those who do not do right by their words. Nike is a global corporation, do right by your customers. Vanessa would never have been mentioned had she not said anything about getting more shoes to the regular consumer...
Things I’m pissed about, doctors cancelling appointments for urgent surgery my brother needed, and thankfully got after two months for a tumor.
Things I’m disappointed in, the Kobe line and accessibility to fans.
The blame does fall on Vanessa for saying she is going to make the shoes accessible to Kobe fans. But she is far from the sole or even most guilty party here which is Nike & these reseller scumbags. Kobe is probably the second or third greatest player ever and if Jordan can get 5 easy retros a...
So this is probably my lack of instagram knowledge compared to most but I saw the number 300000 pairs and that was specific to men’s sizes. Seems like that would be easy enough to hit between raffles, snkrs, etc. The we heard you spiel just rubs me the wrong way. So I’m done. Probably for a...
100% agree they’re just sneakers. My life changes in only one way, I save $190. I also find it absurd family did not get pairs first, and think that is ridiculous. However, I was referring to her comments on going forward starting with the reverse grinches higher quantities were being...
Aside from the gender bashing nonsense this starts with, let’s address the rest.
Had I won, I would still be incredibly frustrated, probably even more vocal if I still had Twitter, as I did when the previous releases have been losses, all of them, for me. As a collector before and after Kobe...
This is not a Vanessa issue had she not said these will be accessible to all of Kobe’s fans to honor him. This is a marketing nightmare and poor business when you could produce more product to satisfy the market. They don’t and I won’t be supporting the brand anymore because I don’t believe...