New Balance beat Nike at scamming the New Shoe Rule

Who cares? It's New Balance lmao

Why even make rules if you allow the company’s to skirt them and cheat the system. No one has a shot at the new Nike or new balance spikes unless the company wants you to have them. The organization should do something. There should have been a minimum production requirement and checks to make sure legitimate consumers were buying these shoes.

I got a pair, they had several posts about them prior to the launch. Hoping to get them in later today

Except that part of the rule does not go into affect until April 30.

Shoes did not have to be available to all for the marathon trials as long as it met the technical standards.

oldmanbythesea wrote:

Except that part of the rule does not go into affect until April 30.

Shoes did not have to be available to all for the marathon trials as long as it met the technical standards.

The spikes have to be available 4 months prior to be used in The Olympic trials and Olympics. So this is how they screwed over anyone wanting them. I highly doubt that there was any posts or announcements about these shoes. A search shows no info on these things and everyone on lets run has been asking about Purriers shoes. The guy claiming he got a pair is probably a new balance employee

Just get the 5280. It is basically a spike anyways.

Not even close to those Carbon track spikes. They are the only ones I’d run in besides Nike, but I’m giving Nike yo completely with the way they do their business in regards to new shoes

I’m hoping this is only going down this way this one time only because companies have to rush to conform to the new rules. Hopefully this won’t become a thing each year before the Olympics and worlds, where they sell like five pairs to try to comply with the rule.

It's the same deal with the Fuelcell TC, which was supposedly released three weeks ago but was instantly "sold out" online and was never available in their flagship Boston store. And who knows when the top-secret RC version will ever come out.

I don't get it, isn't the business model of a shoe company to sell shoes? Why develop fast shoes for your sponsored runners, if you're not going to try to capitalize on that sponsorship?

Exactly. People don’t want track spike in August. Then it’s like F it!!! Doesn’t matter who wore them at the Olympics. We want them now for outdoors, for Masters And World Masters Outdoors. Having some pro wear them at the Olympics isn’t making me want them in August.

They circumvented the rules. I would bet my life there were so few pairs sold on that release date and it was all New Balance Employees or people in the know. The poster claimed they talked about them for weeks before the release but I never seen a single word mentioned. These shoes never actually sold and that guy was probably a new balance employee. Nike and New Balance should be ashamed of themselves

just buy nikes wrote:

Who cares? It's New Balance lmao

This

Nike has their BTC women lying straight to people’s faces saying the shoes don’t exist even after posting a tube tube video of her racing in them. That’s why I’m done with Nike. They will pull the same crap and no one will get their hands on these shoes till after the Olympics. At that point no one wants them till next January as outdooors and masters outdoors are over

just read your thread after creating another one about the same subject:

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10389756

10 months later still same situation! Everyone is still sleeping on this case!

FAKE NEWS. there were 0 posts about this "release", they never released. and they still didn't 10 months later now.

Eyeroll wrote:

I’m hoping this is only going down this way this one time only because companies have to rush to conform to the new rules. Hopefully this won’t become a thing each year before the Olympics and worlds, where they sell like five pairs to try to comply with the rule.

100% agree

Track Spikes wrote:

Not even close to those Carbon track spikes. They are the only ones I’d run in besides Nike, but I’m giving Nike yo completely with the way they do their business in regards to new shoes

Because you're so great or something?

Track Spikes wrote:

We want them now for outdoors, for Masters And World Masters Outdoors.

World Masters Outdoors is cancelled for 2021.