Now I see the company ON is doing something similar.
Perhaps the shoes are crap, and maybe they hassle you if you wear your shoes out in 4 weeks. But if someone is willing to risk it, it would be interesting to know if you could run 100 miles a week and get a new set of shoes each month.
What they are offering is a 25$ a month membership where you get a new pair of shoes every 6 months or earlier if you wear them out.
You can return your Nikes for any reason up to 60 days if you're a member (free).
Have you tried this? Putting a few hundred miles on them and then returning them over and over again?
It seems like a huge hassle. You have to deal with shipping - if you already live by ups or to a shopping center with a ups regularly, great. I imagine they will kick you out of the program if your shoes routinely wear out in 2 months, which would be common for anyone running 100mpw
Also saw they are Pebax. They may be decent enough to run in actually.
How'd that work out for Sports Authority?
If you're doing 100mpw you're probably doing some doubles, workouts, temp runs, races, etc. So maybe you're doing 50 or 60 of those miles in any one pair of shoes - at the very least you need to give them a chance to dry out. And these seem more like a tempo shoe, so they probably wouldn't even be my main shoe. I guess if you tried to exchange them after 300 or 400 miles it would be a bargain, but wouldn't that defeat the whole sustainability thing?
Thanks to all of the LRC runners, we had to close.
On March 2, 2016, Sports Authority filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the case was converted to Chapter 7 a few months later. On May 18, 2016, the company's stores were sold to a group of liquidators and on May 25, CEO Michael Foss announced that all of the stores would close by the end of August 2016.[4][5] On June 30, 2016, Dick's Sporting Goods won the auction for Sports Authority's brand name and intellectual property.[6]
On July 15, 2016, the online store closed operations, redirecting
users to the Dick's Sporting Goods website. On July 21, 2016, the
purchase of Sports Authority's intellectual property by rival Dick's Sporting Goods was approved.
They way the program reads, you get at most 4 pairs a year, and at least 2. So you pay $360 a year (it's $29.99 per month) for 2, 3 or 4 pairs of shoes. From a unit cost perspective, I don't think On stands to lose (barring low subscription rates). You're getting the at best at $90 per shoe; not bad but you can have find decent if vanilla daily trainers (Pegasus, Adizero SL, Saucony Ride, etc.) for far less.
You just won't look as a e s t h e t i c .
