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trentbg said:
 
Its not even a meter of an argument, we all know that is a fact, but still this is a none OG (and not a good none OG) colorway of a great sneaker, and asking the same price as the OG colorways is just silly, we all see the example, that the Shaqnosis no OG's are sitting for ever and will never move for the same price, if at all .
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That's because patent leather is a no go for 95% of sneakers (imo) that's not really a good example. I saw the shaqtus in person today, definitely a hot cw. Black attaqs look better though
 
They should've made the Black Attaqs limited like the Whites. They didn't sell all that well as a GR. Always a bad sign when Flight Club of all places is selling them for below retail.
 
DreamTeamUSA said:
They should've made the Black Attaqs limited like the Whites. They didn't sell all that well as a GR. Always a bad sign when Flight Club of all places is selling them for below retail.
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Bad sign? To who?

I saw the phx pair the other day... Not too bad in person.
 
DreamTeamUSA said:
They should've made the Black Attaqs limited like the Whites. They didn't sell all that well as a GR. Always a bad sign when Flight Club of all places is selling them for below retail.
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I normally agree with you but I don't think that the shoes being discounted is a bad thing - it's perfectly normal. There is quite literally an over-saturation of over-priced sneakers across the board (Nike/JB, Reebok, Adidas, etc..) that the consumer can't simply afford to pay MSRP.

Besides Flight Club's actual cost is only about half of the MSRP - they're still making money with some kind of markdown.
 
^ Completely agree with you, nothing wrong the the GR, I wish the White's were sold in the same quantity. 
 
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. But just saying, IMO the Black Attaqs flopped. Retro OG colorway of one of their biggest athletes to ever have been under contract, FSRs sitting on shelves everywhere, even discounted heavily some places (i.e. YCMC for $115 and still sitting, I'm sure more will soon follow). When's the last time you seen a Retro OG colorway Jordan sitting on the shelves over a week? Not comparing Reebok's retro collection to JB in anyway because they will never ever be on JB level and never have been. But when you don't got much left in the vault to release and some of the so-called "Classics" that you've already released have flopped badly (Black Attaqs, All colors of the Answer I and IV), your outlook ain't too bright. 
 
You are kidding right, have you seen the models they have ready for the next year? And of course they are not JB, and to be honest I don't want them to be, I don't want to hustle and go out of my way every time a retro drops.
 
As I've already stated, it's my opinion. And FYI, yes I've seen the lineup of stuff to come and needless to say I'm not impressed. Most likely will sit like this stuff that currently on the shelves
 
Its all good you have your opinion, I am happy personally, will cop almost everything, don't care if they sit or not. Especially seeing what JB are doing with the prices for the next year.
 
DreamTeamUSA said:
 
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. But just saying, IMO the Black Attaqs flopped. Retro OG colorway of one of their biggest athletes to ever have been under contract, FSRs sitting on shelves everywhere, even discounted heavily some places (i.e. YCMC for $115 and still sitting, I'm sure more will soon follow). When's the last time you seen a Retro OG colorway Jordan sitting on the shelves over a week? Not comparing Reebok's retro collection to JB in anyway because they will never ever be on JB level and never have been. But when you don't got much left in the vault to release and some of the so-called "Classics" that you've already released have flopped badly (Black Attaqs, All colors of the Answer I and IV), your outlook ain't too bright. 
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Most people consider an OG colorway to be what that player actually wore in a game back then correct?  If this is true, then technically the black Attaq's aren't an OG cw since Shaq never wore them in a game.  In your eyes they flopped as a release, but we don't know what Reebok profited off those sneakers.  They could have netted a nice profit.  Or you might be right.  We don't know.  

I personally think this is just a part of Reebok's plan.  They made very limited numbers of the whites.  They produced a lot of the blacks, so I don't think you can compare the two releases.  They had to know the blacks wouldn't be as hyped.  But they knew people that missed out on the whites would want the blacks, since they are very nice in my opinion (and sort of an OG cw like you said).  So yea there are a lot of them still floating around like you said, but I'd like to think Reebok definitely made some profit.

Also, OG colorways of J's do sit sometimes.  Just recently, you have the Fire Red 3's and Black Tongue 5's (which I'm sure is not news to anyone).  They indeed sat for over a week in places.  You can still find both pairs soft of easily.  I also see a lot of people trying to get rid of their pair that they wore once or twice for below retail.  It's as if the masses didn't even want these at all.  It's sort of mind blowing to me.
 
OG colorway=colorway that released when the shoes were originally in stores.... Black pair is an OG colorways.
 
TheShoeWizard said:
 
Most people consider an OG colorway to be what that player actually wore in a game back then correct?  If this is true, then technically the black Attaq's aren't an OG cw since Shaq never wore them in a game.  In your eyes they flopped as a release, but we don't know what Reebok profited off those sneakers.  They could have netted a nice profit.  Or you might be right.  We don't know.  

I personally think this is just a part of Reebok's plan.  They made very limited numbers of the whites.  They produced a lot of the blacks, so I don't think you can compare the two releases.  They had to know the blacks wouldn't be as hyped.  But they knew people that missed out on the whites would want the blacks, since they are very nice in my opinion (and sort of an OG cw like you said).  So yea there are a lot of them still floating around like you said, but I'd like to think Reebok definitely made some profit.

Also, OG colorways of J's do sit sometimes.  Just recently, you have the Fire Red 3's and Black Tongue 5's (which I'm sure is not news to anyone).  They indeed sat for over a week in places.  You can still find both pairs soft of easily.  I also see a lot of people trying to get rid of their pair that they wore once or twice for below retail.  It's as if the masses didn't even want these at all.  It's sort of mind blowing to me.
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Yes, Reebok probably did net a good profit regardless of them going on sale. These were so overpriced to begin with that I'm pretty sure of that..

And yes, Fire Red 3's and Black Tongue 5's didn't sell as well some of the other retros, but that's because both of them had already dropped like merely 5-6 years ago. And technically, the Black Tongues aren't even an OG colorway. The Shaq Attaqs  had never been retro'd before and they hadn't been on sale to the public in 20 years. 20 freaking years. Can you imagine a JB OG colorway that hadn't been retro'd in 20 years sitting on the shelf. I think not.
 
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