If you really meant "Go Nike!" and were critical of how there are so many gullable smucks buying their shoes, then why did you keep harping on Nike marketing?
You only said this after you realised how silly your post was.
If you really meant "Go Nike!" and were critical of how there are so many gullable smucks buying their shoes, then why did you keep harping on Nike marketing?
You only said this after you realised how silly your post was.
Thanks I was starting to think I was dislexic or something. I read that last sentence about 14 times and it said exactly what I said it did.
Eventually they will start selling an empty box for $250 "The lightest and most technically advanced footware in the history of mankind!"
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You're not much of a critical reader/thinker, are you? I didn't say that I suspect their research team is there to find a way to make a profit.
"I suspect Nike's renowned research and development is more involved in how to make a profit than how to make running shoes."
Err....
it ain't about the shoes you losers. i could wear combat boots and beat most every one of you geeks. jeez girls, get out and go runnin' and quit snifflin' 'bout your lil shoozies!
You really don't see the difference, do you? Well, I guess I'll have to explain it to you. Saying that Nike is "... more involved in how to make a profit than how to make running shoes" is quite different from saying they are not there to find a way to make a profit. It is saying that they put a higher priority on the profit than on making running shoes. And before you misrepresent me again, by saying that I am criticizing their right to have that priority, I am not, nor did I. Go Nike!
Just don't buy any of their products and you will show Nike. Quit bitching and just ran barefoot if you want or wear shoes, nobody here really cares much.
Ok dipshit, here's the lowdown. The Free is a TRANSITIONAL shoe. If you bothered to read (key word right there, READ), the lit that goes w/the shoe you might realize, if you're not completely retarded, that the Free is meant to be used as a training tool. Not as an everyday training shoe. If they were really marketing running barefoot, they wouldn't even bother w/creating a shoe now would they? They would just throw their hands up in the air and say, "Hey we've been wrong all along. We're stopping all the shoe production lines and we're just going to sell clothes and watches from now on. No more shoes." The idea behind the Free is to use it on a regular basis as a training supplement, a bit like weight lifting, to build up the tiny muscles in your foot and ankle that have been ignored because the shoes you've been wearing all your life have been doing the work for them. It also is supposed to teach you to run more efficiently. Whether it does or not is a matter of debate, but that's one of the ideas behind it. Nike's rationale for the naming scheme (5.0 etc) is that if on a scale of 0-10, 10 is wearing a traditional shoe and 0 is barefoot, the current Free model is 5. In June, they'll be releasing the 4.0 which will be a bit lower profile, and then next year they're supposed to come out with the 3.0. See the progression or do you need me to draw you a picture? If you don't like the shoe or its marketing drive, don't buy it. If you can't get a grasp on the concept, keep your yap shut, try harder and save us your drivel.
its free enterprise, if they want to sell overpriced goods, its fine w/ me. It just shows that they have a great business where people including myself sometimes or often fall into their trap of buying overpriced goods. If you dont like the price or the good, don't buy it. Its that simple. There are over 100 other running shoe models you can chose from, pick one.
The Penny 1's and Penny 2's along with the CB Max's were outta hand in the mid 90's.