If I recall TWG helped to set up Marcus Jordans store. They were basically given an elevated status after the fact, in fact I believe they got their collabs right after Marcus's store opened.
Now I ain't gon lie I didn't realize it was fraud to Backdoor and not claim the bread. I was hella ignorant to that lol.
The problem is he got all of those collabs because of all of this. The amount of product they were moving is what earned them for them. Nike really needs to find a different way to award tier 0 bc the current method forced shops to get creative in how they move product. That's not excusing who James was working with, but all shops are moving products in ways other than just waiting for Joe to walk in the door to buy a pair.
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I thought ppl did go after Marcus? Especially with the trophy room 1s and ppl actually tracked him down at a hotel back dooring them lol.
Yea that part never crossed my mind either. I guess I assumed they were invoicing it but Nike goes over books so man idk how all the paperwork works on it.
Didn’t the report say they have pics of the exchanges?Whitner responds:
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They’d probably take issue with who the product was given to considering what that person is tied up in.
Marcus has a Jordan 1 Collab coming out in Feb 2024. The people can do what they want Nike didn't seem to care.
They literally showed all $32M on a table. They have 3 years of surveillance on Jimmy and he’s throwing the procurement team under the bus.
Marcus is also the son of their biggest cash cow no? Would seem to be pretty easy to understand why they’d be ok with giving him more collabs.
You calling him this is really really weird.
Same here. Had better service with Z tbh though. TWG would take forever to ship
I remember the last SB golden era. A lot of shops actually started under because of those fat *** Nike bills. They needed the SBs to get people in the door but it came at a cost and not everybody was buying P-rods etc.
But they’re not because he’s Jordan’s son and because of Greed as well. It works hand in hand.
