Nike Elite signed gear, plus $600 nike swag - Charity Auction to rebuild Track

Actually, its $400 worth of NOP gear of your choice from the NOP store, along with the signed memorabilia.

http://www.dailytidings.com/sports/20170723/nike-oregon-project-donates-items-for-track-auction

How about they throw in a date with Hasay?

Actually it's the memorabilia, $400 of gear of your choice from NOP store, free shoes and a backpack.

600 dollars? Nike is donating 600 whole dollars of crap made at Asian slave labor factories? That's mighty white of them.

The Reserves are too high. Why even have reserves for charity projects?

I have a pair of shoes signed by Rupp, Salazar, and Achon that I won't sell.

kh wrote:

The Reserves are too high. Why even have reserves for charity projects?

I have a pair of shoes signed by Rupp, Salazar, and Achon that I won't sell.

Agreed. Why the high reserve?

Obviously you want a set amount of money but kind of defeats the purpose of an auction.

If its a worthy cause and good items it will get there itself.

Why has this been taken down off of eBay?

Orange Julian wrote:

Why has this been taken down off of eBay?

Items have been seized for FBI analysis.

Apparently they are having to repost the auction because of some trademark issue. Its being done in cooperation with Nike, so not sure what the deal is, but its going to go back up today.

What a lovely, LOVELY message board we have, full of the sweetest, kindest, gentlest, most positive and forgiving and reasonable and fair-minded souls the running world has to offer.

Nah, screw Nike and their corporate greed (such as in donating throwaway swag to the auction, which they will then pay one of their tax accountant to numbers-crunch for a minimal corporate writeoff next April)! Screw primadonna celebrity runners! Screw rip-off charity auctions, with their ulterior motives! Screw Oregon high school sports (which just churn out abused, overtrained puppets-on-string, except for Matthew Maton, who was fortunate enough to be freed from the shackles of his high school track team)!

No, let me pull a U-ey. I honor the good people who actually give up their valuable time trying to raise money for a very worthy cause! I honor Nike for doing something that they didn't have to do by contributing to a very worthy cause. I honor Jordan, and Centro, etc., for buying into the big picture and willfully offering, for the auction, what they know will have undeniable meaning to others who hold them in high esteem. And which, therefore, will help support the goal of collecting money for a new HS track. I honor the vision to provide a new running surface, which will benefit young and old alike, not just the HS kids.

Well, this message board does have it's extremes, doesn't it? I sure hope the money is raised, and I doff my non-Nike cap to those involved in making this happen. To ALL of those involved, thanks, and good luck.

Child labor camps wrote:

600 dollars? Nike is donating 600 whole dollars of crap made at Asian slave labor factories? That's mighty white of them.

Quote taken from Phil Knight's memoir when he tried to pay factory workers US minimum wage.

"In one country, which shall be nameless, when we tried to raise wages, we found ourselves called on the carpet, summoned to the office of a top government official and ordered to stop. We were disrupting the nation’s entire economic system, he said. It’s simply not right, he insisted, or feasible, that a shoe worker makes more than a medical doctor."

The auction is back on at:

https://www.charity.ebay.com/charity/Ashland-Schools-Foundation/2231160

Anyone know what size spike Galen wears?

http://m.ebay.com/itm/Olympic-Medalist-Galen-Rupp-Signed-Spikes-w-COA-600-Nike-Oregon-Project-Gear-/222595379514?_trkparms=aid%253D222007%2526algo%253DSIC.MBE%2526ao%253D1%2526asc%253D20150519202348%2526meid%253D9ee4f119c97745019699ba148589f96c%2526pid%253D100408%2526rk%253D1%2526rkt%253D1%2526sd%253D222592607838&_trksid=p2056116.c100408.m2460

His shoes are hard to fill

High School Track wrote:

His shoes are hard to fill

Not really. Could fill them with liquid, dirt, food, etc.