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[d34noj]

nice one mate, be having them seeing as no bugger got me anything again.

Usually avoid size & the jd group but thats a fair old sale they've got on, also consideing royal blue marathon tr & some Eqt Support in a silvery grey.

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just wary that they are the jd versions with rubbish soles instead of the adidas ones.

Dont buy JD made adidas, last about 5 minutes.

 

[Blue 1]

Gazelle definitely are uncomfortable.

Only if you've got massive wide feet. I get on with them fine.

Stan Smiths are the most comfortable adidas I've had though.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Dont buy JD made adidas, last about 5 minutes.

and size is the same group which is why I'm hoping they aren't their own, usually say 'exclusive' on & there are others that say it so maybe these are the proper ones... 'kin hope so.

 

[Kurt.]

Mrs went out to the car about an hour ago and came in with another surprise for me.... pair of onitsuka tigers

 

[Frang]

and size is the same group which is why I'm hoping they aren't their own, usually say 'exclusive' on & there are others that say it so maybe these are the proper ones... 'kin hope so.

how can size and jd make their own jarg Adidas??

 

[COYBL25]

how can size and jd make their own jarg Adidas??

Under licence

Adidas take an agreed wedge, JD takes the rest.

Big incentive to make them as cheap as possible and flog them high, hence why they are crap.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Under licence

Adidas take an agreed wedge, JD takes the rest.

Big incentive to make them as cheap as possible and flog them high, hence why they are crap.

yep, that's about the long & short of it, & adidas have been happy for them to make products nowhere near the quality. Someone from adidas told me a few years back about the 'exclusive' tags on stuff in there, and within that group there are a load of shops offspring, scotts, hurleys, size, footpatrol, mainline, tessuti, getthelabel all belong to jd so they will all have this 'exclusive' stuff.


the amount of shops owned by them also kind of explains how the price has jumped up so much over the last couple of years as well. bet the price hike easily covers the manufacture & adidas's cut.

 

[DungaDog]

Dont buy JD made adidas, last about 5 minutes.

All adidas are shabite now no matter from JD or wherever...the sole on my Forest Hills is disintegrating. That said if the ever reissue Olympia S I'd be tempted.

 

[COYBL25]

yep, that's about the long & short of it, & adidas have been happy for them to make products nowhere near the quality. Someone from adidas told me a few years back about the 'exclusive' tags on stuff in there, and within that group there are a load of shops offspring, scotts, hurleys, size, footpatrol, mainline, tessuti, getthelabel all belong to jd so they will all have this 'exclusive' stuff.


the amount of shops owned by them also kind of explains how the price has jumped up so much over the last couple of years as well. bet the price hike easily covers the manufacture & adidas's cut.

Wow I didn’t know that many shops were part of JD.

I sussed it out at JD myself a while back. I can’t remember what I was wearing, may have been a pair of proper Hawaii. I went in for another pair and the JD ones were much lighter and a different shade of brown - looked and felt wrong.

 

[COYBL25]

All adidas are shabite now no matter from JD or wherever...the sole on my Forest Hills is disintegrating. That said if the ever reissue Olympia S I'd be tempted.

You can still get decent ones of small private sellers on the internet, who must get them abroad and stockpile them.

 

[DungaDog]

You can still get decent ones of small private sellers on the internet, who must get them abroad and stockpile them.

There was a shop in Buenos Aires where some guy stockpiled adidas from the 70's...

 

[COYBL25]

There was a shop in Buenos Aires where some guy stockpiled adidas from the 70's...

There’s a lad in Greece I think too ( maybe somewhere else ) but he’s got a Facebook site.

 

[Frang]

Wow I didn’t know that many shops were part of JD.

I sussed it out at JD myself a while back. I can’t remember what I was wearing, may have been a pair of proper Hawaii. I went in for another pair and the JD ones were much lighter and a different shade of brown - looked and felt wrong.

I think I may own a pair of JD gazzelles, as they are horrific trainers.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Wow I didn’t know that many shops were part of JD.

I sussed it out at JD myself a while back. I can’t remember what I was wearing, may have been a pair of proper Hawaii. I went in for another pair and the JD ones were much lighter and a different shade of brown - looked and felt wrong.

it lists them all here https://www.jdplc.com/our-group/sports-fashion.aspx gooutdoors, blacks, millets as well

I think I may own a pair of JD gazzelles, as they are horrific trainers.

none of them last long if you wear them outdoors tbh the sole is as if it's missing a rubber base

 

[Frang]

it lists them all here https://www.jdplc.com/our-group/sports-fashion.aspx gooutdoors, blacks, millets as well


none of them last long if you wear them outdoors tbh the sole is as if it's missing a rubber base

yep, they are like walking on bricks, I might reserrect them by putting the insole out of my air max's in them

or I might just chuck them