should call them Nike EBT's...
Posted on 08/22/2012 3:12:55 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
... People have forked over up to $250 bucks for sneakers named after NBA stars. But now, if you want the latest LeBrons, which are set to debut this fall, you're going to have to lay down $315 to get them.
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Kewl...I can’t wait...to see the fist fights, gun battles, beat downs, at the local shoe store...
I wonder how many will be bought with a EBT card?
“I wonder how many will be bought with a EBT card?”
Dang! You beat me to it because that was my first thought! :)
None, but watch EBT allowances go up since there will be less money to buy food with since they are spending more on this crap.
That was my very first thought when I read the thread title.
They’ll be to die for...
93% is my guess.
I would buy a pair and a compact brush shredder and I would find a busy street with plenty of traffic and media, and I would shred those shoes. i absolutely hate a bad fad.
That would be an EBT card borrowed from the girl friend
My wife works at the largest retail chain in the world...believe me these LeBron shoes will be bought with the EBT cards that have a cash component...which many do
I was at Payless shoes last night and there was an option button to pay with EBT. I was like, “What?” Now I get it. At least the shoes there are reasonable.
should call them Nike EBT's...
It would be my guess that during the last twenty years, that more Negroes have been physically attacked during the commission of theft of “fashionable” sneakers than have been attacked by the remnants of the KKK.
The person w/ the EBT card rides with the person carrying cash to the store. Person w/ cash selects a hundred dollars worth of groceries, person with EBT card uses it to purchase the groceries, person w/ cash gives $100 in cash to person w/ EBT card.
Person w/ cash was going to spend that cash anyway, so person w/ EBT card now has $100 they can spend on smokes, booze, pills, etc. The only ones on the short end of the stick are the little kids who now have $100 less worth of food money that their idiot “parent” spent on nonsense.
I know people that do this sort of crap all the time, it infuriates me.
The gub’ment is buying poor folk cell phones via their “www.obamaphone.net” web site. Maybe they’ll do likewise with a new web site like “www.obamalebronshoes.net” for free LeBron shoes. After all, you can’t have a poor kid in the hood walking around with lesser shoes than his counterparts.
this roll out must be why Nike has implemented new rules for the stores that carry their shoes.
Unleash the “Flash Mobs”!
The store videos that will be available when these things go on sale will be precious.
They’re probably made in some cheap labor nation at a cost of around $15.00 per pair. A few years back I read that the high end sneakers had a production cost below $10.00, but there’s probably been some increase since.
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