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Here's the responses he got... fun and games with Nike...
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 <http://www.nike.com/
Thank you, NIKE iD
- - - - From: "Jonah H. Peretti"
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" <nikeid_personalize@nike.com
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 nike.com
Thank you, NIKE iD
- - - - From: "Jonah H. Peretti"
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 web site 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" <nikeid_personalize@nike.com
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) other's
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 <http://www.nike.com/
Thank you, NIKE iD
- - - - - - From: "Jonah H. Peretti" To: "Personalize, NIKE iD" <nikeid_personalize@nike.com
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 <no response ###end
As one forwarder writes:
... this will now go round the world much farther and
faster than any of the adverts they paid Michael Jordan more than the entire
wage packet of all
their sweatshop workers in the world to do...
Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
