Trainers

Quite like them, any details?

AM1, by NIKE

Lolz

I'm actually feeling these

http://acrossports.s3.amazonaws.com/productPhotos/NIKE/554718880/554718880_5.jpg

Maybe 'cause they're really bike in this pic...

SP - they should be easy to get hold of, current drop has been in most stores for a couple of months now.
They're £95 which I think is steep fwiw

Is it me or have Nike hiked up all their prices over the last year or so? AM 1 used to be £85 and £95+ for the more limited editions. Now every pair seems to start at a £100.

Yup, it's getting stupid. But people are still well up for it.

It's why Im going to try and get a few pairs brought back from Portland :)

I think they might end up going to sale, as they are nice, which seems to be what a lot of buyers dont go for.

SP - they should be easy to get hold of, current drop has been in most stores for a couple of months now.
They're £95 which I think is steep fwiw

Is it me or have Nike hiked up all their prices over the last year or so? AM 1 used to be £85 and £95+ for the more limited editions. Now every pair seems to start at a £100.

It is still cheaper to buy sneakers in the UK when comparing to mainland Euro prices. Living in Spain has curbed my purchases massively although this is not exclusivly down to price. Availabilty is gash.

Can't remember the last time I bought a pair of new trainers. Always eBay for me.

£95 for some mesh and rubber? lolz

Fuck it, I could even make a pair of Rosheses at home myself they're so simple. £70 rrp?

Go on then you punk ass slaaaaag!

Nice.

£95 for some mesh and rubber? lolz

This is always such a bullshit way of looking at value.

"£400 for a few bits of pipe welded together?" (bike frame)

"£1000 for a bit of egg and flour?" (wedding cake)

"£25,000 for a load of pressed tin?" (car)

Nike's bullshit hype machine is extremely cynical and there's no doubt that they're raking it in, but I don't think the products themselves are that unfairly priced. They probably cost fuck all to manufacture per unit, but the cost of keeping Nike Inc going will be absolutely astronomical. These items are state-of-the-art, where the art is constantly making new things in new ways to satisfy a hungry but demanding market and making it almost entirely automatically in factories equipped with the very latest equipment, by the tens of thousands, and bringing it to market in such a way that it seems cool and not like a shrewd exercise in emptying people's wallet, often by associating the brand with the world's most highly-paid athletes (to cite one of many techniques by which they maintain crediblity).

The idea that you could make a Nike Roshe by hand at home is laughable. Maybe you could a kind of shite Wurzel Gummidge Converse All-Star. Even a professionally hand made shoe costing £200+ is technologically archaic next to Nike products, or, rather, the way Nike products are made. But there's the difference: with Nike you're paying for endless novelty and a cleverly-conceived icon of modern culture that is ultimately disposable (which is just as well because they'll be out of date before they're out of life). I wonder what their marketing budget is compared with R&D?

(bit of rant... I love this sort of shit, sorry)

I was being facetious, but it's an interesting topic, often covered in the Rapha thread month after month.

In all seriousness though, I'm not paying ~£100 for a pair of trainers that I'd be too afraid to scuff. Kind of defeats their purpose.

^Same argument for nice bikes/ bike parts. The first scuff is the hardest but then you can just enjoy wearing them or buy a shiny new pair!

I think £100 is jolly cheap for brand new nikes, with the latest "fashion" concepts and materials etc.. Like SP said, it is a lot of innovation to keep up, even if it is perceived abstract value they are putting into the product.

It is especially cheap when you consider inflation.

Back when I was a wee lad, top end trainers all still cost similar prices when minimum wage was like £2/h. People still bought them, including poor single parents who got them for their kids on credit, everyone was sporting a fresh pair of Jordan's or whatever regardless of them costing more than their families entire weekly income.

If things like this cost any less than the £100 ballpark, they would lose their attraction.

Just like how no one would wear Vision skate shoes since they started being sold in sports world for £10-£15 (except me of course who loves them)

I was being facetious, but it's an interesting topic

I thought as much, I just love this stuff (cultural worth and the way people perceive places and objects). I think I'm in the wrong job - buildings aren't fast enough.

DFP - how much was a plasma TV ten years ago?

Your argument doesn't quite stand up with what I'm saying.

Nike are mainly rehashing old designs and have increased prices by nearly 20%

And even given such a simple task, they regularly fuck it up

Im after some Wurzel Gummidges anyone got any?

Great page pop culture pickers

DFP - how much was a plasma TV ten years ago?

Your argument doesn't quite stand up with what I'm saying.

Nike are mainly rehashing old designs and have increased prices by nearly 20%

How much has the £ decreased in value over the past few years?

Repost.

woof

Needs reposting

On general sale mid July