Simply loved this colorway. they are super comfy for this type of shoes. I think the materials are great, the new Puma Achieve box is cool, and they cost me only about 65 US or less. for the money nothing beat this quality. to me the suede on these feels a bit better than the suede on my 990 v6 or v3. the v4 feels the best to me, but they cost like 400 US here now.
So, I think Puma is coming back soon (in fact, outside of the US online community, they have always been popular). Love Puma now.
Normally, I do not like this type of really old classic sneakers, but these are actually comfy and look stunning in person. In fact, I am ordering another pair of this colorway. I really love this colorway.
I also love the Clyde and I actually prefer the Clyde silhouette a bit more than the Suede, but the Clyde do not fit right with horrible heel slippages. So, I just return the pair of Clyde OG next to this one and trying a half size smaller pair of the same shoes. Now, I am a huge fan of Puma Suede and Clyde, Adidas Adimatic, Nike Cortez and Nike airmax 1.
Now, I am selling most pairs of my NB 550's and Adidas Forum lows. They never work for me; I much prefer the Nike Cortez, the AF1 and the Puma Suede over them. Also, I must get rid of 5 pairs of my 2002R series shoes. I have 21 pairs of them and selling about 5 pairs of them. They are great shoes but only good in the winter season here (the upper gets too warm). I will also sell most pairs of my 991 and 990 v3, they are too hot for Asia. NB shoes are simply overpriced and overrated in my opinion and no longer worth my time and money, Made in US or UK, I don't care, if they were made in Germany or Italy, maybe that would be special but would be also super expensive too. Those NB Made are popular on Reddit or like that, but in reality, their resell values seem not really reasonably good. I mean sometimes even cheap Nike aimrax 90 or airmax 1 beat them in resale value. So, now I've just concluded that the NB Made series shoes are the worst value shoes in the world.
If you just never sell shoes, and you are a NB fundamentalist, then that crazy 300-400 US price may worth it for you, or you can somehow justify the unreasonable price they ask for those low-quality shoes reasonable for you, but for us Asians, they are just too overpriced dated shoes. They just think because they say Made in US or UK, we will willingly pay 2times more than the price Americans are paying for them? Do they think us Asians are that stupid or naive? I think they will have hard time if they continue this stupidly egoistic racial marketing in Asia.
IMHO, the problem of the Made or NB in general now is they have no real iconic silhouettes at all.
To NB fanboys, the 990 may be iconic silhouette, but if you ask any ordinary people, then chances are they never heard anything about them. I think there are only very few iconic sneaker silhouettes that never go out of style with time, and most of those shoes are either Nike or Adidas, not NB.
Personally, I love NB 1906R or 90/60 series shoes, but they are never considered to be iconic or timeless.
I think the Jordan 1 Hi is timeless and iconic, so are the Jordan 4, the AF1 Low, the Cortez, the airmax 90 and the 1. Those never go out of style. I think the Adidas Stan Smith, Samba, Campus, Gazelle, Superstar, etc. are also timeless shoes. I know they are not popular in the US, but they are super popular in Asia and EU if not the most popular ordinary people's sneakers. Now, I even think the Puma Suede, Clyde and Hoka Clifton OG are some of those really timeless shoes. Maybe the Gel Lyte 3 and NB 991 could also be considered some of such shoes, but I am not sure. The 990 v1 and v2 are definitely not as they were never popular until really recently.
The V3 and v4 were also not really popular until the ALD takeover of the NB fashion line occurred in 2020.
Anyway, I feel NB is the most overrated and overpriced shoe brand now and their suede quality is not really that good, actually many of premium grade airmax 1 or most Puma shoes easily beat that NB grade suede quality.
Now, I just ignore all shoe raffles, they are never worth the time and information we have to give up for that. And most of times, their raffle shoes never sell out until they get marked down. I can say the same for Adidas raffles, they are never worth the price and the time involved into the raffles.
Now, even Yeezys are 50 percent or more discounted regularly. I mean if you are Yeezy 350 v2 fan, come here, you will be able to get them really cheap. I think the sneaker boom is dying, no more ordinary people buying into the hype.
Only the hyperbeast morons still wasting lots of money and time on these 'hyped" releases. I think that people are slowly waking up from the everybody must love this or that style mentality. Most people are now mentally strong enough and free enough to choose what they like rather than what are hyped now or recommended by so called influencers or experts. That's why many kids are still wearing skinny jeans if they think that specific style suits them great. That's why so many young boys wearing both loose-fit pants and slim-fit pants. That's why Puma has recorded record-breaking sells in this season. And those supposed to be hyped or popular brands like Nike, NB and Adidas are more extreme sales more often than ever before, just to get rid of some really annoyingly stocked up inventories.
UPDATE: In 2024, only the very extreme fools waste lots of money on shoes, now I strongly realize that. The resell prices are steadily falling and the used or preowned or resell markets are all becoming smaller both online and at many local places.
So, it is really not wise to buy any pair of shoes that cost over 200 US or so. Even if you can still somehow manage to sell some shoes online without much loss, or even for some profit, if you have to cover the shipping and the insurance fee, etc., the final profit is really not worth the effort. I used to sell some shoes I disliked on eBay, Yahoo Auction and Mercari but all of these sites now charge a lot of processing fee (normally 8 percent or so of our annual sales). And I think that's just too much. I also think eBay is now risky, there are a lot of fake people and bots. So, I just quit buying shoes that I may sell later or cost a lot of money. Last week, Adidas was having a huge sale here and Yeezy 350 v2 and 700 v3 were both under 90 US, but I did not buy them as I was not sure if I can sell them for some profit. I think people are now awakening and know the price, and they no longer pay 400 US or like that for a pair of Yeezy. I think the same can be said for the Made. And I think I will avoid them too. Do not overpay for any pair of shoes, now it is super hard to resell shoes and earn some stable profit. I think the long-lasted sneaker boom is now dying. Now, even Nike needs so many 50 percent off super-sales to get off the unwanted inventories.