AIR JORDAN 13 BLACK/WHITE/TRUE RED RETRO AFTERMATH AKA Vol 2 THREAD NO BUYING/SELLING/TRADING (3/16/

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For those waiting on their FNL order confirmation, you can always try the track by reference trick.

Got to http://www.ups.com/WebTracking/track?loc=en_US&WT.svl=PriNav and click track by reference and enter your FNL order number as the reference number.

If your UPS order was created it should show up, it worked for me the last few releases before recovering the actual FNL email shipment confirmation.
 
east99 said:
i'm impressed with the quality. overall this is a solid retro. i'm gonna break mines in today
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Good to hear! Can't wait for my pair to come in!
 
AngelSoleFly said:
Since we are on a roll with this restock\reselling business here is my opinion about what Nike should do to discourage resellers:
  1. Just raise the price of the pairs considerably higher, yeah it would suck to pay a lot more, but it's worth being able to wake up in the morning and be GURANTEED your pair when walking into a shop anytime that day.
  2. Make a lot more or yes restock considerably more.  I do feel a little frustrated about the Bred XIs restocking so soon b\c it makes the pair so generic, but if they keep this strategy up across the board for every shoe and it kills the resell game, I'm down w\it.

I think Nike would be making a mistake to keep letting resellers bank on their present day releases, it's one thing for collectors to profit on collectables, but no company should have a market where regular Joes pick up your retail item and inflate the price 35%+, that is valuable profit you are missing out on through poor selling strategy, additionally that is a far reach from proper marketing strategy.  If an item is Exclusive and in High Demand, you either pump the quantity or pump the price, you don't leave the market the way it is.

On a positive note I do see them making slight corrections, such as small price increases on the retros and frequent restocks, let's just hope the corrections keep getting applied until we can see a day we can just wake up one morning and go to our local pick up spot w\no lines or hassles. 
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IMHO Reseller market only exists because of two factors:

1. Demand fueled by hype
2. Limited quantity to induce hype

It's a vicious cycle and Nike perfected this. Nike is a prime case study in business schools because of their marketing.

Has anyone really sent Nike a complaint? With social media, I think the power of numbers could change their ways.

I'll start a "Nike give us more shoes" page on Facebook later and see what kind of traction it creates. Worst case, it would make a good social experiment.
 
AngelSoleFly said:
Since we are on a roll with this restock\reselling business here is my opinion about what Nike should do to discourage resellers:
  1. Just raise the price of the pairs considerably higher, yeah it would suck to pay a lot more, but it's worth being able to wake up in the morning and be GURANTEED your pair when walking into a shop anytime that day.
  2. Make a lot more or yes restock considerably more.  I do feel a little frustrated about the Bred XIs restocking so soon b\c it makes the pair so generic, but if they keep this strategy up across the board for every shoe and it kills the resell game, I'm down w\it.

I think Nike would be making a mistake to keep letting resellers bank on their present day releases, it's one thing for collectors to profit on collectables, but no company should have a market where regular Joes pick up your retail item and inflate the price 35%+, that is valuable profit you are missing out on through poor selling strategy, additionally that is a far reach from proper marketing strategy.  If an item is Exclusive and in High Demand, you either pump the quantity or pump the price, you don't leave the market the way it is.

On a positive note I do see them making slight corrections, such as small price increases on the retros and frequent restocks, let's just hope the corrections keep getting applied until we can see a day we can just wake up one morning and go to our local pick up spot w\no lines or hassles. 
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get off of whatever you are on.
 
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Congrats to everyone that got a pair. I went and stood in like for about an hour and they sold the last 10.5 before I got to the door. Woulda been there earlier but I didn't get off of work until 7. I got a pair in my cart on flightclub for 291 but I'm thinking that's wayy to much for these shoes.
 
So I created the "Nike should make more shoes" page on Facebook as a social experiment. It's an open group so anyone can join and voice the opinions. Let's see how many will join the cause...
 
just blaze said:
No, I've been trying the past 3-4 hours and no label yet. I used that trick last time for my other kicks from FNL. Oh well, just gotta wait.
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Maybe all the UPS and FNL workers are downing some green beer. I'm sure it will come by tomorrow, this doesn't seem like a release that FNL would cancel orders. IMO
 
I also have not received my shipping confirmation from FNL yet, I will just have to play the waiting game I suppose.
 
Been wanting these since middle school when they originally dropped...have these in hand and it feels good, beautiful shoe! Congrats on those who copped to rock!
 
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/03/11-year-old_girl_shot_and_woun.html#incart_m-rpt-2

11-year-old girl shot, wounded while waiting to buy new Air Jordan sneakers at Springfield's Walmart plaza

[COLOR=#red]SPRINGFIELD[/COLOR] — Mayor Domenic J. Sarno said city police are actively hunting for a man who shot an 11-year-old girl in the leg as she waited for a store selling new Nike Air Jordan sneakers to open Saturday morning.

"Shame on them! Shame on them! Over a ... pair of sneakers!" an angry Sarno said Saturday evening.

The mayor said an "orderly line" had formed outside a local shoe store – Expressions at the Walmart plaza on Boston Road – before the shop had opened for business Saturday morning. But a pair of individuals with possible gang ties "tried to cut the line," sparking a violent episode in which the girl, an innocent bystander, was shot and wounded, he said.

"They tried to jump the line," said Sarno, who received a police briefing on the incident. "It just boggles my mind, the uncivilized nature of these unsavory individuals who could have taken the life of an 11-year-old girl." The mayor said he'll be reaching out to the girl and her family, who right now need their privacy and time to deal with the "traumatic situation."

City and state police are searching for one or more suspects, one of whom left behind a camouflage jacket. An extensive ground-and-air search effort, including K-9 units and a state police helicopter, turned up nothing Saturday, but investigators continue to probe the shooting – the second involving a local child injured by gunfire in as many weeks.

"It looks like she's going to be OK," Springfield Police Detective Joe Brodeur said of the girl, whose name was not publicly released. She was shot in the leg and rushed to Baystate Medical Center for treatment.

The incident was reported just after 8:36 a.m. Saturday, Lt. James Rosso said, adding that no arrests had been made as of early Saturday evening.

According to Brodeur, police are looking for "one or more" males who were involved in the altercation, which ended with gunfire.

On March 6, a 5-year-old boy was shot in the leg in Holyoke after a man opened fire on the boy's father. An arrest has been made in that case.

Authorities said the 11-year-old girl was standing in a line of people waiting to buy new Air Jordan sneakers at Expressions, 1067 Boston Road, a shoe store located at the Walmart plaza. She was outside MadRag, a clothing shop two stores away from Expressions, when two males in their late teens or early twenties got into verbal dispute that quickly turned physical.

One male pulled out a handgun and reportedly pistol-whipped the other before opening fire on him. It's unknown if the man who was shot at was struck, but the girl was hit in the leg, police said. "We believe she was an innocent victim," detective Sgt. Kenneth J. Murray said.

Witnesses described the shooter as a black male wearing a camouflage jacket. Murray said police found the jacket nearby and used it to attempt to track the suspect with K-9 units. State police conducted an aerial search with a helicopter, but authorities were unable to locate the gunman. "We were unsuccessful ... he had either been picked up by a car or previously passed through that area," Murray said.

Saturday marked the national release of the Air Jordan 13 Retro "He Got Game" model, which retails for about $170, as well as the Air Jordan 13 GS, a grey-and-pink sneaker for girls that sells for around $115. Air Jordan debuts typically attract crowds of sneaker enthusiasts, some of whom arrive early to get in line before stores open. Some people waited outside the Springfield shoe store all night, according to Murray.

A manager at MadRag, who declined to give her name, said police contacted her around 7:30 a.m. to let her know that one of the store's large front windows had been shattered by gunfire. By Saturday afternoon, two large pieces of plywood covered the hole where the window had been, but the store was open for business, according to the manager.

Two women working behind the counter at Expressions declined to give their names to a reporter. "They're trying to make it sound like it was related to the release (of the new Air Jordans), but it had nothing to do with that," said one of the employees, who was counting a large wad of cash. Two men had a previous beef, she said, and that disagreement coincided with the release of the new Jordans.

Disturbances have plagued past sneaker debuts by the Nike brand named after Michael Jordan, one of the NBA's all-time greatest players. In December, police used pepper spray on a mob outside a mall in Huntsville, Ala. Fights had broken out as about 100 people waited for a previous version of the iconic shoes. In 2011, police across the country struggled to maintain crowd control and quell fights outside national retail outlets as hordes of people lined up for Nike's retro Air Jordans.

Gunfire is rare in the city's Boston Road neighborhood, Springfield's main retail corridor. Sarno said the incident will not be tolerated. "The police are hunting these individuals," he said, referring to them as "disrespectful animals" who don't respect themselves or "human life" in general.

"Thank God this young lady is OK," he said of the injured girl.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Springfield Police Detective Bureau at (413) 787-6355. Anonymous text-message tips can be sent to CRIMES (or 274637), with the body of the message beginning with the word "SOLVE."
 
Try that reference trick guys. My label wasn't there before but I just checked and it was created.
 
teller360 said:
Maybe all the UPS and FNL workers are downing some green beer. I'm sure it will come by tomorrow, this doesn't seem like a release that FNL would cancel orders. IMO
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Haha I'm sure they are bro. Oddly enough, just check a few mins ago and boom, label created. :smokin
 
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