[Old Gregg]

For me there is just too much hype for a pretty average shoe, just because it has a monkey on it people have gone nuts. Some friends of a friend queued and they're all nike fanboys.
I'm not really fussed plus Pokey will probably sell me his in a year or 2

[big_al75]

That's not the point... No matter what shoe it is, if you get people all worked up, tell them to come and queue for 40 pairs - then sell half of them out the back door - it's just poor form. Ape or no ape.

[mr.pure]

A fucking men!
Fuck Adi, you're a fucking joke!

[WildOne]

That's not the point... No matter what shoe it is, if you get people all worked up, tell them to come and queue for 40 pairs - then sell half of them out the back door - it's just poor form. Ape or no ape.

Like he said. Anyway fook 'em I'm gonna take some pairs off my wanted list with the funds I haven't wasted on these.

[dregz]

Out of the 15 or so people I chatted to in the queue only about 5 of them seemed to be buying for themselves, the others were quite blatant about cashing in on ebay.

[mr.pure]

Cunts.
I've made people feel so bad in the past that they've gotten up and left.
I can spot a reseller at 40 paces!

[pokey27]

@ Carly!!! Keep dreaming luv
I'm de-tagging and wearing them next saturday..Already had 4 emails from people wanting to buy them from me!! Nutta's

[Big Vern]

so this No 46 shop, is it an actual Adidas owned shop ie this Paolo geezer just works there or does he own the shop?

If he is just a geezer that works there then maybe we should all ping Adidas and make them aware of the situation as it's a pretty fucked up situation when some fucker is passing half of a very limited stock out of the back door to mates when true Adidas fans would otherwise make the effort to get down there and part with their hard earned cash to buy and actually wear them.

[lorre]

Paolo is the manager of No6 the shop is owned by adidas no74 i believe isn't owned by adidas. I think everyone knew there was going to be people un-happy Paolo knew it ages ago adidas knew it the buyers knew. At the end of the day alot of un-happy folk will be looking for someone to vent their anger on and too be honest i don't really get the impression peeps in the store would really risk there jobs/reputations over silly deals makes no sense to me. Remember the industry is quite small and everyone knows everyone else and if we are talking No6 it hardly looks like the toughest busiest sneaker store in London why mess that up.

[mr.pure]

People in the store DEFINITELY let pairs go under the counter. End of!

[lorre]

Ok well there you go then.

[streak]

Staff were allowed to buy 1 pair each. I'm sure other pairs were reserved (this always happens and I know people have reserved pairs before)
I was lucky to get a pair as I knew a member of staff who didn't wan't/couldn't afford a pair so I had his allocation.
Right place, right time.

[lorre]

Ok so most of the peeps in the queues just got the scrag ends if they where lucky. The whole thing is a can of worms.

[nikosg]

Suck it up all you princesses, this isnt the first time.... Get used to it with big releases!!! Some things never change. Some are lucky, most aren't.

FFS that's how it's been for every damn RF release through asics, and that's at one fuxking retailer in the US that doesn't even sell intentional!

[mr.pure]

Bollocks niko.
If a store is saying it'll have 40 pairs for sale then it should fucking well have 40 pairs for sale!
As for the reserving pairs, if he says he can't reserve pairs but then proceeds to do exactly that for other people, I ask you, what was the deciding factor?!?