Alden MTO Forum Group Buy - Page 49

If you can't drop $350 right this second you really should not be spending $700 on shoes.sorry to be that guy

I wouldn't pre order them unless I was OK with walking into a store and paying $650 cash. Anything else is just sketchy mental accounting

Id be curious about any updates to this also. I am in on the ravello cap toe and it is still my preferred make up, but if for any reason it isnt happening, I would go with one of these other ones.

I sent a PM to member kgmessier who spearheaded our drive for this MTO and he's confirmed that it's definitely still a go.

Sweet, thanks.

Really? With an 18-24 month window? I disagree. While I like to pay for stuff in full, with two kids at home, sometimes shit happens, and I don't have $100 extra cash at the end of some months, let alone $350. If the pre-order time was short, I'd be more likely to agree with you, but for me these long pre-orders are saving goals. I put away $75-100 a month, don't even feel it, and in 8 months time, the shoe is paid for. And then you're still waiting another 10-16 months for the shoe to come in...

I think the idea of "saving monthly" in order to pay for discretionary, luxury items is really just mental accounting to make you feel better about the purchase.

at the end of the day, $700 is $700 is $700. it doesn't really matter if you take it out of your kids college fund today, or if it comes from 18 month savings out of your coin jar - it's worth the same either way, has the same spending utility either way, and is probably roughly the same % of your income either way. you could take that $700 in 18 months and put into your retirement fund, or the college fund, or towards rent, or towards any other things - just as I assume you could do now with $700 you have saved up in some bank account. it doesn't matter, but "saving up" makes you feel better about spending it on shoes

this is much different than saving up for retirement - money you *know* you'll need to be spending later.

this is all a longer way of saying what I said above - if you are ok with dropping $700 right now, that's great. but that's really the only logical way a $700 pre-order should make sense as well.

What will the obscura boot look similar to, when all's said and done?

This is the Obscura:

If you want to see the Obscura just look at my last post in the Alden thread. It has the boot and the shoe, which does have the medallion on the toe.

One of the best features of the Obsura boot is the oversized brogue holes on the cap. I hope this gets incorporated into the EP make-up.

Well, not that I can't drop big cash on luxueuze items. But money can only be spend once. I happen to have more intetests than just Alden agora. With a production process of 12 to 18 months I just thought the pre-order period was quite short.

@ Mike:

If you do a pre-order in the best future for about the same item, I'll be on it. Can't have all at once. Momotaro's are quite lovely too

Edit: Texting on mobile sucks.

So what is the deal with this group buy? Is it happening?

Is it still possible to get in?

I REALLY want the MTO02 boots.. Actually, I'd go for either of them.

 Count me in on the Obscura calfskin, if on a TruBalance last!
 

 

M'eh good luck with that. Seems like all the rage these days in here is for people with skinny feet.