Vaporfly 4% Buyers Remorse

Sell em on ebay for 400 dollars.

Thing with eBay is, they just take so much in fees. If I was modest and sold for $300, I'd only make a $10 profit with fees. Not worth it dealing with shipping. Sure at $400, I'd make close to a $100, but I don't have it in me to charge someone that much, especially when some sites still have them in stock (e.g., Jack Rabbit..for now at least).

You have buyers remorse about a product you haven't even tried out yet? A product that has the potential to shave time off your mary PB with literally no effort?

At least run in them first , you moran.

Let me get this right wrote:

You have buyers remorse about a product you haven't even tried out yet? A product that has the potential to shave time off your mary PB with literally no effort?

At least run in them first , you moran.

Yep, that's exactly what I said. For me, the cost vs. benefit isn't worth it. Is the value of a PR worth $250 to some? I'm sure it is. I was admittedly a sucker to the hype and marketing.

And running in them destroys the possibility of returning them for a full refund (to credit card). And yes, I'm worried if I run in them I won't want to :)

5 years from now, every manufacturer is bound to have a version of these at a lower price. I'll try them then.

I bought a pair and I'm nowhere near elite. My thinking is why not though? I do this for fun and I want to see what the hype is all about. I assume you aren't struggling financially so whatever. People spend $500 on bottles of wine or tickets to some Broadway play which seems just as frivolous but if they enjoy those things then good for them.

Seriously mate? wrote:

I bought a pair and I'm nowhere near elite. My thinking is why not though? I do this for fun and I want to see what the hype is all about. I assume you aren't struggling financially so whatever. People spend $500 on bottles of wine or tickets to some Broadway play which seems just as frivolous but if they enjoy those things then good for them.

I don't in anyway knock anyone who has bought them regardless of his/her PR. I'm not "struggling" financially - no debt other than mortgage, but there's a reason I'm in this financially position. And it's not because I make 6 figures.

I'll just return them to RW once I get them. Path of least resistance. Should have known I'd get torn up by LR for posting this.

hahah - Look at this loser casually dropping in his six figure income.

Pro-tip - noone cares about six figures these days. It is the equivalent of bragging that you have been overseas or you volunteer at a dog shelter. It is the sort of thing vapid twits boast about on Instagram.

Not so humblebrag wrote:

hahah - Look at this loser casually dropping in his six figure income.

Pro-tip - noone cares about six figures these days. It is the equivalent of bragging that you have been overseas or you volunteer at a dog shelter. It is the sort of thing vapid twits boast about on Instagram.

By "and it's not because I make 6 figures", I meant I definitely DO NOT make 6 figures haha. The reason I don't have debt is not because I make a crap ton, it's because I buy last year's running shoes that cost 60 bucks. Try half that lol.

vaporflyremorse wrote:

Thing with eBay is, they just take so much in fees. If I was modest and sold for $300, I'd only make a $10 profit with fees. Not worth it dealing with shipping. Sure at $400, I'd make close to a $100, but I don't have it in me to charge someone that much, especially when some sites still have them in stock (e.g., Jack Rabbit..for now at least).

Exactly. Sell them locally or return them. There's big risk with the auction sites. You could get a flake buyer and end up getting a used return, losing money. And have to pay shipping for them. Been burned before.

I would keep them and try them out. Its your hobby, if you can improve on your time for 250 bucks extra, just do it! You don't want to look back some day and think i could have ran 2.29 or whatever but saved 250 bucks instead. Take every legal advantage you can get. Just consider the hours of time spent training. Compare that to 250 bucks.

I ordered a couple pairs of them off Eastbay and the order has not shipped yet. Does the Eastbay company actually have them or are they just pulling our leg(s)?

Eastbay emailed me yesterday to say the pair I bought had shipped.

Just got mine today from Eastbay. Less than 24 hour turnaround

Just return them. But you've had plenty of time to think about it before hand, so why did you buy them?

Let me get this right wrote:

A product that has the potential to shave time off your mary PB with literally no effort?

Good decision by the OP. ^ This is exactly why you should return them.

If you're shooting for a pr, and have done the work in training, achieve it cleanly. Otherwise, years down the line:-

a) You'll always wonder what was actually legitimate and what was just the shoes.

b) When you tell someone your pr, it's going to reach a time when they'll then ask you what shoes you wore, and when you have to say vaporfly, there's going to be a questioning look of what that means you really would have ran.

Best to hit a real mark...

So when Bowerman was making running shoes in his garage for his runners there time's really don't count ??

Pretzel Man wrote:

So when Bowerman was making running shoes in his garage for his runners there time's really don't count ??

+1

No, he used a waffle maker to make shoes. thats crazy.

It's only $250. $250 these days are only like $100 from year 2000. At least that is what it feels like these days. You put in the work. Put the best shoe on on the race day.