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]]> http://planetill.com/2009/11/the-reebok-pump-turns-20-rereleases/comment-page-1/#comment-844 Ben Barren - Confessions of a Mad Man » Reebok Pump-Up Crowdsourced_Economics Collab’ Jam! Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:52:57 +0000 http://planetill.com/?p=3847#comment-844 [...] I’m just annoyed I couldn’t get a pair as while Sydney (Espionage) and Asia (Atmos-Tokyo... + Oh well, another day, another new UNDFTD X Gourmet collab kick, and I dont have any white in my sneaker range after all. And sometimes NEW NEW trumps NEW OLD. While Reebok may leverage the collabtailers : After a few times around the block it may be The New Kid wants to become The King. But atm, no1’s complaining…. Sneaker Freaker on the Sydney Espionage collab party : "The global Pump20 party touched down in Sydney with Espionage pulling the curtain back to reveal their black and white patent Pumpers! It was a chilled affair with the local clientele being treated to fine tunes, even finer brews and the odd giveaway or two." Dont mind the Espionage Pump... but typically I'm besotted by the West Coast Navy/Yellow UNDFTD + HUFs plus the Euro Heather Grey of SNS/Colette.fr - But Sydney did beat Melbourne with our city deprived of any opportunity to procure kicks + based that they never really went for online sale - as each collab was only around 29-31 pairs.. 1 SYD / 0 MEL Reebok's Google PageRank juice after this assault on social media is going to be off the hook - Heck if they had paid 600 bloggers to take the Pumps - they would have got less promotion. But by restricting supply + bringing in the cache rich / cashpoorer / consumer high sneaker retailers who want to be sneaker designers... they have the "target market" tweeting / blogging / facebooking away It's all about restricting supply to a unique product and increasing buzz on said product ! But why is it that the sneaker company - the brand custodian, cant do as good a job as an outsider, that is the crux which is interesting.... Posted by Ben Barren on November 26, 2009 – 2:48 pm Filed under Sneaker_Freakers Permalink|Comments RSS Feed - Post a comment|Trackback URL. [...] [...] I’m just annoyed I couldn’t get a pair as while Sydney (Espionage) and Asia (Atmos-Tokyo… + Oh well, another day, another new UNDFTD X Gourmet collab kick, and I dont have any white in my sneaker range after all. And sometimes NEW NEW trumps NEW OLD. While Reebok may leverage the collabtailers : After a few times around the block it may be The New Kid wants to become The King. But atm, no1’s complaining…. Sneaker Freaker on the Sydney Espionage collab party : "The global Pump20 party touched down in Sydney with Espionage pulling the curtain back to reveal their black and white patent Pumpers! It was a chilled affair with the local clientele being treated to fine tunes, even finer brews and the odd giveaway or two." Dont mind the Espionage Pump… but typically I'm besotted by the West Coast Navy/Yellow UNDFTD + HUFs plus the Euro Heather Grey of SNS/Colette.fr – But Sydney did beat Melbourne with our city deprived of any opportunity to procure kicks + based that they never really went for online sale – as each collab was only around 29-31 pairs.. 1 SYD / 0 MEL Reebok's Google PageRank juice after this assault on social media is going to be off the hook – Heck if they had paid 600 bloggers to take the Pumps – they would have got less promotion. But by restricting supply + bringing in the cache rich / cashpoorer / consumer high sneaker retailers who want to be sneaker designers… they have the "target market" tweeting / blogging / facebooking away It's all about restricting supply to a unique product and increasing buzz on said product ! But why is it that the sneaker company – the brand custodian, cant do as good a job as an outsider, that is the crux which is interesting…. Posted by Ben Barren on November 26, 2009 – 2:48 pm Filed under Sneaker_Freakers Permalink|Comments RSS Feed – Post a comment|Trackback URL. [...]

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