How much are you willing to pay for a pair of running shoe?

No more than I have to. Nike Waffle Racers at $35 have been a great value for me.

Southern Man wrote:

No more than I have to. Nike Waffle Racers at $35 have been a great value for me.

Sure. If you do not have to pay more, you don't. But, if one day the Waffle racers sells for $120 and all your other favorite shoes are even more expensive, are you willing to spend that much to get them or you will go with a cheaper pair that you do not like that much?

Personally, I will pay up to $100/pair if I really like them. But, I rarely do.

100 bucks, wowee, don't ever go to europe, a pair of

mid range shoes will cost you about 180 dollars, and top range stuff like Kayanos over 200.UK is cheaper but not very much. It's all the taxes to give handouts to lazy

people who don't go to work and live like kings.

too true!

notattheraces wrote: lazy people who don't go to work and live like kings.

Cool - finally I know what I want to be when I grow up! Thanks!

I can get this gig pretty much anywhere in Europe?

Yeah, when shoes are £120 it's getting a bit much! Personally I think the Kayano have way too much junk on them that causes more harm than good.

I paid £30 for shoes and £40 for spikes.

yep, just turn up, tell them you're homeless, unemployed and an orphan, they'll soon sort you out;One thing though you have to have an address, but there are people who specialise in "addresses".Tell them you've got 5 kids

and you'll soon be in your very own mansion with swim pool and everything.They don't even check in half the cases, well not at first anyway.

I'd pay up to $200 for a pair of shoes if I knew they would give me 600 miles of pain free running and once I find I pair I like I tend to buy on bulk.

For shoes I cant get hold of now which i used to love I would pay whatever it took..

yes but what has that got to do with socialist aid for

homeless,unemployeds orphans in Europe.Try to stick to the subject please...

It really depends on WHERE in Europe you'd like to stay. GB, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Netherlands? Yes- expensive as hell and taxes are really high. Try to come to some new EU member states (former eastern block- Czech rep., Hungary. Slovakia- skip Poland) and you'll have to bust your ass just to scrape for a living, unless you belong to mafia, or are very lucky to get hired by foreign company. Then, maybe, just maybe in 30 years of everyday hard labor (10-16 hours/day at work) you will be able to pay off your mortgage debt for 1 bedroom stinky apartment. Homeless, gypsy, orphant? You'll die from hunger, unless you choose to steal. Don't want to start on Bulgaria or Romania- our newest addition to the EU... those countries are dirt poor.

Back to the topic- I would pay up to 70 EUR, or around 100 bucks. Not a penny more. None of the shoes are worth more than half of that price- realy. What's the value of one manufactured pair of shoes with everything (marketing, shipping costs...)? I read somewher that no more than $7... So who's proffiting?

new memeber states, nobody want's to go there, i think half of Poland is current in the UK, plumbing and moonlighting and working under the radar, probably claiming benefits as well. Why i looked at a UK football site the other day andthey have their very own section for Polish fans. Try driving through any town in France, if you have to stop a red lights you get thousand of Roumanians trying to flog you bog paper with crap printed on it,they get pretty touchy if you tell them to piss off as well, one red light ok, two red lights so so,when it comes to groups of idle illegal immigrant beggars at the third you're starting to get pretty annoyed.*

Go down to Lyon, place Bellecour (central plaza) along with the usual french drunks and layabouts you now have thousands of roumanian kids screaming "5 europs" at you.

That's about 7 dollars.Then their well dressed,high heeled mom comes over a gives them all a big ass ice-cream.Wasters and layabouts paid for by poor,hardworking european nationals.

I think you are generalising and should be more open-minded. There are lots of things I don't like about Englishmen, yet I am still noy venting it at a thread about shoe prices.

You are a little man.

Exactly. I was simply trying to find out how much are you willing to pay for a pair of shoe, regardless why the shoe cost that much - that is out of our control anyway.

So, let's hear your price limit / comfortable price level.

I cant remember the last time I payed over 65 bucks

So, there is no one here willing to pay more than $80 in the US while there are guys in Europe that have to pay $150+ for a pair of running shoe.

I guess only those joggers buy Kayano, Nimbus, Air Max 360, etc.

$60 tops. Ebay has lots of last years model type stuff for that or, sometimes, much less. My last pair of Mizuno's cost $32 delivered. Inspire 2's. Nice shoes.

I'm willing to pay $60 for a hard-to-find model that I really love. Generally I pay about $30. I wear a lot of demos that I get from friends who work in running stores or are sponsored.

Wait. I just thought of an exception. If anyone has a pair of 10 Cubatos, I'll pay $100 for them.