Discounts drying up

yes. i wanted to by the endorphin pro 3 now that the endorphin pro 4 is for sale, and Saucony and running warehouse are both still selling both models for the same price on their websites. wild.

I noticed that too. It's quite unusual not to discount the older version of a shoe when a new version is introduced. Saucony is being particularly stingy with the discounts this year. They better be prepared for lower revenues because a lot of Saucony fans have been conditioned expect more generous deals on closeout models.

Exact same with asics and even nike (AF2, VF3).

I agree with op. It's getting a lot harder to get discounts.

Agreed. If anyone has any leads please post them. I used to love picking up last year's Saucony model at a steep discount when they dropped the new one. Same thing with New Balance Rebels, etc.

If true, it probably just means they are getting better at managing forecasts so they have fewer shoes to clear out.

Every online retailer, including Saucony dot com, that has discounted the Endorphin Speed 3 priced at $134.95.

It certainly appears that Saucony is imposing a MAP requirement on partner retailers this year. We'll see how this plays out. If consumers don't bite at these prices Saucony may have no choice but to allow deeper discounts.

Same with Running Warehouse.... I used to have a code that would take some money off select items -- usually stuff they wanted to get rid of. I think it was like 5% off or something little like that.

It was nice to have that, and incentivized me to buy from them, even if that code didn't work for all the items in my cart...

People are out running again. All NYRR races are selling out as soon as they're posted. I think we will only see Nike discounts on Peg going foward and not at the sub $60 level but more like sub $80.

A lot of companies missed goals this past year/quarter. This is expected but hopefully not the trend

1) Running Warehouse long ago lost my business by killing off their discount codes. They can suck my taint.

2) I have stopped buying Saucony since their good lines are so hard to find on discount all of a sudden. Screw you Saucony until I find something like a Speed 3 for $60-80.

3) Adidas shoes can be found on some deals out there but their Lightstrike Pro racing models are staying pricey.

I bought quite a few pairs of running shoes over the last couple years, sometimes as low as $25-40 per pair. I can use these up over the next year or so and hopefully the bottom will drop again on some good models.

I will never, ever be the $150+ buyer of running shoes. Never. Ever.

Cheap phucks, just get a pair of shoes and GO TRAIN.

It's quite reasonable of you to wonder if a 50% off actually means that the price is now half as much.

I've noticed this in the UK as well. I used to be able to get Vaporflys for £100-£120, Endorphin Speed for £80, Tempo Next% for £60. Now, the only shoe that is regularly on sale at a decent discount is the Takumi Sen which you can almost always get for 40% off.

Brooks is selling the old Hyperion Tempo for $65. I think that’s about 40-50% off. Super versatile shoe..

have been reading this post annually for years..

Fwiw, I scored massive haul of Saucony guide and ride models last year in maybe August. $24/pair at "DSW". Got dragged reluctantly in there with one of my kids and suddenly it was like "why have I never shopped here?" Bought 5 pairs. Don't know if it was a once in a lifetime deal or if they fire sale running shoes regularly.

Often if you buy the shoes in horrible colours you can get a larger discount. But then you have shoes in horrible colours.

It's indeed possible to still find a deal here and there for a supercritical EVA shoe such as the Hyperion Tempo. But if we look back 6-9 months to last summer the deals for these types of shoes have become less generous. Last year retailers were discounting the Hyperion Max to $70-80. The MSRP is $170. That shoe is still available at a discount but now the price is back over $110.

Another example was the Fuelcell Rebel V3. For the better part of last summer New Balance was selling the 'ugly' purple colorway for $48-55 direct from their Joe's MB Outlet website. The Rebel V3 is currently discountined because the V4 is now available. But NB has raised the price of the V3 to $89. That's a 25-30 discount from the MSRP but represents a steep increase from where the shoe was priced several months ago.

There definitely seems like there's a industry wide effort to reduce discounts. NB runs fewer promotions on Joe's. They stopped offering coupon codes a few months ago. NB no longer partners with Slickdeals for promotional campaigns. Brands that used to offer email newsletter discount codes of 20% now offer 10-15% instead with more exclusions.

I suspect that brands intentionally do production runs in ugly arse colorways and then offer them at discount to target price sensitive shoppers without eroding higher margin sales from other demos. It's like a form of price differentiation. Make the shoe so ugly that it only appeals to the most furgal consumer. I don't believe this an accident. Some shoe colorway designs are so objectively unappealing that cannot be mere happenstance or oversight.

I think we interacted recently on SD and discussed this very topic. You could be onto to something regarding the NYRR races and the enthusiasm for winter races in general. As someone on Runningshoegeeks suggested, people who participate in the race scene are flocking to winter races and participating less in the summertime races to avoid the heat.

Running brands probably now recognize this shift and they're reluctant to discount their more premium nylon plated trainers and carbon plated supershoes in the early months of 2024. So perhaps we'll see juicy deals start to materialize towards the end of summer into early fall. Last year, that's when I saw some of the best deals.