Canada is always ready to honour its heroes. That appears to be the case with the new Terry Fox adidas collection. The shoes and shirt designed to pay tribute to the iconic Canadian sold out seemingly within minutes. The special edition Orion sneakers and commemorative t-shirt that outlined Fox's Marathon of Hope went on sale at 10:00 AM Eastern time on May 20. According to CBC News, the collection had already completely sold out within a "matter of minutes." adidas Canada posted about the sale on their Twitter account the same day, writing "Together, we can see Terry’s dream realized. Today we are honoured to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope with the launch of our commemorative collection." A number of replies to that tweet indicated that both items had already sold out right after the sale started. "I tried and tried. At 20 sec after 7am PT they were all sold out. Couldn’t enter a size. May want to release again? Or more? How does the entire stock sell out in 20 sec" wrote @JoshGibber10. "Yes under 2 minutes and gone. Good grief." replied @glott77. adidas Canada replied to some of these tweets saying that they would be restocking and releasing more items over the coming months. Together, we can see Terry’s dream realized.Today we are honoured to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope with the launch of our commemorative collection.Shop the collection at 10am at https://t.co/toTJTAORwb pic.twitter.com/CZGOQcSYgV— adidas Canada (at 🏡) (@adidasCA) May 20, 2020 I tried and tried. At 20 sec after 7am PT they were all sold out. Couldn’t enter a size. May want to release again? Or more? How does the entire stock sell out in 20 sec— Josh Gibson (@JoshGibber10) May 20, 2020 Yes under 2 minutes and gone. Good grief.— kevin gangloff (@glott77) May 20, 2020 Some Twitter users responded saying they believed the shoes were purchased by bots, possibly for resale. "Are the Ticketmaster bots bored? How on earth was it humanly possible to click that fast? What a disappointing experience. Hopefully, you'll re-stock them soon," wrote @Funology_ca. "more like a matter of seconds. I tried multiple sizes after my size failed in a span of 30 seconds and all them sold out. Bots must have got into the buying cycle so now the shoes will be $250 online later today somewhere," reads a reply from @ScottWJones93. Are the Ticketmaster bots bored? How on earth was it humanly possible to click that fast? What a disappointing experience. Hopefully, you'll re-stock them soon.— Jason Wood (@Funology_ca) May 20, 2020 more like a matter of seconds. I tried multiple sizes after my size failed in a span of 30 seconds and all them sold out. Bots must have got into the buying cycle so now the shoes will be $250 online later today somewhere.— Scott Jones (@ScottWJones93) May 20, 2020 Well based on the replies and my own experience, it looks like the only people who got shoes were bots...but hey at least it's all going to charity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯— Stephen Dass (@Stephen_Dass) May 20, 2020 Terrible experience...I was on the adidas site watching the countdown and tried to order right away at 1000. No shoes available....Will probably show up on a website for triple the cost...so much for money going to a good cause 😟— Mich Jovo (@michjovo) May 20, 2020 I have no idea how something that's supposed to benefit charity can be so bungled, and yet, here we are.This shouldn't have been a release to reward the bot users.— G. Minser, apparently. (@g_misner) May 20, 2020 I'd like to thank all the scalpers and resellers that will no doubt be featuring these shoes on eBay in the coming days. No sizes showing up for me to place an order on your site when the timer hit zero (and I refreshed) and then they were all sold out.— Ryan Walton (@ClarkGriswold76) May 20, 2020 As of writing, eBay Canada has at least three listings for the shoes, with some selling for as high as $1000. adidas created the shoes and shirt to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope. The shoes are a recreation of the one worn during Fox's journey to raise money for cancer research. Narcity may receive a small commission if you purchase something we recommend in this article, which was created by the Narcity Shop team just for you.
