Anyone else get their blackspot sneakers?

from the people who brought you "cool fascismo" it's not that much of a joke...

Am I the only one that's put off by the self-aware pretentious pseudo-irony bullshit of this whole campaign?

adbusters fucking rocks, good for them for finally getting their shoe produced. as soon as i've got the scratch, i'm buying two pairs of those kicks.

ever paid 6 dollars for a bag of organic carrots? same bullshit con job.

to those of you who purchased these sneakers:

my company, the sleepy hippy haberdashery outlet, are currently producing a 100% cruelty free, 100% organic, 100% anti-fucking-corporation white tee shirt. they were made by hand at a table of 6 cute record store girls, all while smoking weed and listening to cat stevens.

81 dollars a pop.

there's a 'fruit of the loom' tag on the back, but that's just kind of an in-joke.

Dear Christ, that was beautiful

please, tell me what adbusters could to to not be pretentious in your eyes. believe in an entirely different life philosophy, I presume. maybe if they agreed with you about everything it would help?

I ordered them when this thread origionally appeared. (well, my wife ordered them for me for christmas) No shoes yet, but we got this email.
> Dear Blackspotter,
>
> We know that you've been waiting quite some time for your shoes to
> arrive, and for that we apologise. Let us just assure you that your
> sneakers are making their way to your door at this very moment. Along
> the way, there have been a few glitches that led to unanticipated
> delays. Please bear with our growing pains--in the end, we know you'll
> appreciate that we took the time to do it right.
>
> To begin with, the shipment of hemp fabric was held up in customs on
> the way to the Portuguese factory where Blackspots are made. As a
> result, we missed our manufacturing window, and were forced to
> reschedule. Then there were problems with the appearance of the
> Blackspot anti-logo on the shoes, and the factory was forced to repaint
> them. To guarantee that the spots can resist wear-and-tear, they have
> to be placed in special drying racks in small batches--this takes time.
> Now they're done, the spots have two coats, and they look way better.
> All in all, you'll be getting a much better shoe.
>
> At around the same time, we decided to rethink our distribution system,
> as we had been getting reports of missing deliveries from Blackspotters
> who had ordered from earlier production runs. We realised that the
> system could be improved, and set about securing something more
> reliable. Two of the major changes might be of interest to you. First,
> our new North American distributors are able to give you access to a
> tracking system that will tell you exactly how close your shoes are to
> delivery. Second, we've opted to use ocean freight to transport orders
> to the new distributors. The upshot of ocean freight is that it's much
> more environmentally friendly than air cargo, and it eliminates the
> need for most of our customers to pay import duty. Unfortunately, it
> also takes a few weeks longer than shipment by air.
>
> So, what can you expect to happen next? The cargo ship is set to arrive
> by March 8th, after which the shoes will go immediately to the
> distributors. They will take a few days to sort and package the orders.
> At this point, you'll receive e-mail notification and your tracking
> number directly from the distributors, after which the shoes should be
> on your doorstep within one or two weeks. We think it'll be well worth
> the wait.
>
> Again, thank you very much for your patience. We're almost there, and
> we absolutely could not have done it without you.

I've never heard of these shoes, so I checked them out. personal opinion, ugly, over priced, and hype is hype, I got some beach front property to sell in the Alps if you are buying into this anticorporation crap. propaganda is propaganda.I got better things to worry about than where my shoes come from, who's getting paid, and all that crap.

I am, then when do I get my dividends? how much is my stock worth? when is our IPO? come on people, are you really that gullible?

in other news, how fucking lame is this? if you're life is this sad and pathetic that you'll wait in a line for two days for a pair of shoes, please kill yourself, you'll be happier in the long run.

I really love reading posts by people who obviously haven't got the first fucking clue what they're talking about.

I don't get it. What's so special about the ugly poofy fake Converse.

Real sneakers are made in developing nations using cheap labour, unsavoury working practices, cheap materials etc, and then sold in the developed world for a lot of cash.

Buying these sneakers means that money gets filtered along the production chain in a fiarer way; the people who actually make them get paid a sensible amount. Children don't miss school becuase they're stitching shoes on dangerous machines. Stuff like that.

No wonder. Hippies always have ugly shoes.

I really like it when someone quickly scans a post, not really reading, just coming up with some witty responce. then post when you "haven't got the first fucking clue what they're talking about. "

and if you'd read more than that first part, you would have seen that I checked them out, I went straight to their own website to inform myself before making a decision. the shoe pictured in this thread, ugly, the blackspot v 2.0 on the site, ugly doesn't even come close to how horrible they look. all that crap about being

. while I'm sure it's all true, I doubt their reasons for starting this "anticorporation. they are praying on people's desires to "fight the man", and "save the planet". I say greed. are the people going to donate all net profits to charities? will they take no money for themselves? or will they richly reward themselves for starting such a socially conscious company? are the retail stores going to lower their profit % for these shoes? While I agree that Nike sucks, I show my distain by buying a kickass pair of $150 steel toed boots that have lasted 5 years and three motorcycle accident and, still look pretty good, and will last me another 5 years.


[Edited on Feb 27, 2005 by Sportbikepilot]

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[Edited on Feb 27, 2005 by demetrius_z]

the blackspots were designed by john fluevog.