Posted on 12/24/2019 10:37:42 AM PST by RummyChick
Colin Kaepernick may not have an NFL job, but the social activist and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback is proving he's still marketable as his new $110 Nike sneaker bearing his image sold out within minutes of its release on Monday.
Nike sold the shoes at its own stores, select retailers and via the SNKRS app. The sneakers can be acquired for resale, but one website, FlightClub.com, is asking as much as $950 for a pair.
Some retailers have agreed to donate profits to charities supported by the outspoken Kaepernick.
Nike has not released sales figures, but the Air Force 1 x Colin Kaepernick, which has his black-and-white likeness emblazoned on the back, is currently unavailable in North America, according to multiple reports.
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Nike makes me sick.
Who would pay $950 for sneakers made in China for probably $10??
Oh...never mind
Nothing like being a Social Justice Warrior who makes his bucks off Chinese slave labor. Black liberals aren’t against slavery. They just want to be the masters.
Fools and their money...
Bad for business indeed......stopped buying anything Nike related a long long time ago over their alleged sweat shops, etc. Further bolstered by the KaepernickIdiot BS.......
If you didnt look at the video ad take a look. For some reason I kept thinking of Black Panthers and not talking about the Movie.
Not sure why...
Plenty of drug , retail theft, extortion, carjacking, armed robbery, identity theft etc money in the hood to support the Nike market.
Fools and their money.
They're all a bunch o NIKAHS
So do white liberals.
It’s all in the name. Some people are using their welfare money to buy sneakers just because it says the America-hater’s name on them.
Hoe lee crap! See post 9. We must be brilliant! Merry Christmas. And, no nikes thanks.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
And I would think it might be dangerous to wear them in certain neighborhoods, where buying such shoes would not be necessary for Robin (in the) Hood type folks.
I messed up by not buying a truckload of Nike stock when they telegraphed they had found a way to exploit misguided youth.
They buy Red Chinese product that cost 45 cents to produce and sell it for $200.
I could have profited too in the exploitation. “Despoiling the camp of the enemy” is an old testament tradition; nothing wrong with it I guess.
I just slept over the opportunity.
What? All forty pairs?
I wonder if I could get that for my pet rock...
Just shows you how stupid the people buying the shoes are.
Haven’t bought a Nike shoe since the 1970s as a teenager when they last fit my foot properly. Pretty much have stuck with New Balance since (if there is some political reason why I shouldn’t buy NB, don’t tell me! - very few other shoe makers fit my foot well @ men’s 9.5 wide-extra wide).
Why? It's just business.
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