[el tigre]

From: "Personalize, NIKE iD"
To: "Jonah H. Peretti"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000
Your NIKE iD order was cancelled for one or more of the following reasons.
1) Your Personal iD contains another party's trademark or other intellectual
property.
2) Your Personal iD contains the name of an athlete or team we do not have
the legal right to use.
3) Your Personal iD was left blank. Did you not want any personalization?
4) Your Personal iD contains profanity or inappropriate slang, and besides,
your mother would slap us.
If you wish to reorder your NIKE iD product with a new personalization
Please visit us again at www.nike.com
Thank you, NIKE iD


From: "Jonah H. Peretti"
To: "Personalize, NIKE iD"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000
Greetings,
My order was canceled but my personal NIKE iD does not violate any of the
criteria outlined in your message. The Personal iD on my custom ZOOM XC USA
running shoes was the word "sweatshop."
Sweatshop is not: 1) another's party's trademark, 2) the name of an athlete,
3) blank, or 4) profanity.
I choose the iD because I wanted to remember the toil and labor of the
children that made my shoes. Could you please ship them to me immediately.
Thanks and Happy New Year, Jonah Peretti


From: "Personalize, NIKE iD" >
To: "Jonah H. Peretti"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000
Dear NIKE iD Customer,
Your NIKE iD order was cancelled because the iD you have chosen contains, as
stated in the previous e-mail correspondence, "inappropriate slang".
If you wish to reorder your NIKE iD product with a new personalization
Please visit us again at www.nike.com
Thank you, NIKE iD


From: "Jonah H. Peretti"
To: "Personalize, NIKE iD"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000
Dear NIKE iD,
Thank you for your quick response to my inquiry about my custom ZOOM XC USA
running shoes. Although I commend you for your prompt customer service, I
disagree with the claim that my personal iD was inappropriate slang. After
consulting Webster's Dictionary, I discovered that "sweatshop" is in fact
part of standard English, and not slang. The word means: "a shop or factory
in which workers are employed for long hours at low wages and under
unhealthy conditions" and its origin dates from 1892. So my personal iD does
meet the criteria detailed in your first email.
Your website advertises that the NIKE iD program is "about freedom to choose
and freedom to express who you are." I share Nike's love of freedom and
personal expression. The site also says that "If you want it done
right...build it yourself." I was thrilled to be able to build my own shoes,
and my personal iD was offered as a small token of appreciation for the
sweatshop workers poised to help me realize my vision. I hope that you will
value my freedom of expression and reconsider your decision to reject my
order.
Thank you, Jonah Peretti


From: "Personalize, NIKE iD"
To: "Jonah H. Peretti"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000
Dear NIKE iD Customer,
Regarding the rules for personalization it also states on the NIKE iD web
site that "Nike reserves the right to cancel any Personal iD up to 24 hours
after it has been submitted".
In addition it further explains: "While we honor most personal iDs, we
cannot honor every one. Some may be (or contain) others trademarks, or the
names of certain professional sports teams, athletes or celebrities that
Nike does not have the right to use. Others may contain material that we
consider inappropriate or simply do not want to place on our products.
Unfortunately, at times this obliges us to decline personal iDs that may
otherwise seem unobjectionable. In any event, we will let you know if we
decline your personal iD, and we will offer you the chance to submit
another."
With these rules in mind we cannot accept your order as submitted. If you
wish to reorder your NIKE iD product with a new personalization please visit
us again at www.nike.com
Thank you, NIKE iD


From: "Jonah H. Peretti"
To: "Personalize, NIKE iD"
Subject: RE: Your NIKE iD order o16468000
Dear NIKE iD,
Thank you for the time and energy you have spent on my request. I have
decided to order the shoes with a different iD, but I would like to make one
small request. Could you please send me a color snapshot of the ten-year-old
Vietnamese girl who makes my shoes?
Thanks, Jonah Peretti


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[FaithInChaos]

hahaha....shit

[Freddio]

el tigre why do you support their company then?

ditch the Dodgy Nike bastards and get some quality shoes..

[GreenPeach]

I don't really know what the personalized id is, and where it apears. But if it's on the shoe itself that would have been fucking brilliant.

[Spitfire]

Mwahahahhaahaahha /me slaps tigre brilliant!

I, myself, own 2 pairs of nikes, both used to be my fathers running shoes for years. I dont think a more utterly worn out pair of shoes exists on this planet.

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[el tigre]

who said I support their company Freddio?

I gotta pair of Soaps and a pair of DC's that is all

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[This message has been edited by el tigre (edited February 24, 2001).]

[Nex]

*thumbs up*

[Affected]

You're my hero!

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Democracy is a lie

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[Jess]

I love it. That's very amusing... not suprised at all that those bastards declined the request.

[Typo Dave]

I have posted this myself elsewhere. One reaction was: "How can this be both funny and sad at the same time?"

The trouble is that sweatshops tend to support villages of people in south east Asia, and without those sweatshops, young women and children would have to turn to prostitution and crime to survive.

If they are paid by Western standards, then inflation in their village goes through the roof and those people who don't work in the sweatshop can't afford to live.

Third world labour is a real moral dilemma.

Sweatshops = no human dignity

no sweatshops = no human dignity



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[Ian]

Tigre! Eso es fantastico! Te amo.

[Darklighter]

some more food for thought:

In contrast, through his five year Nike contract, Tiger woods earns US$55,000 a day. A Thai worker producing Nike clothing would have to work for 14,000 days or 38 years to receive this same amount. On the contrary, Nike spends the equivalent of 14,000 workers daily salaries to pay Tiger Woods for just one day. A worker would have to work for 26.5 million days or 72,000 years to receive what Tiger Woods gets during his five year contract with Nike.

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[Ian]

I hear Asians don't really...erm like Tiger Woods very much...

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[Typo Dave]

That's not true. Tiger Woods is very prominent here, advertising Tudor watches and Weeties.

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