Rmccamey
I'll Lock Up
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Just jumping into the conversation. I've always had good luck with resoles, even on dress shoes, at my local western boot repair shop. Here in Texas, there is a boot store in most towns across the state.
Fifty150 is bringing up a good point about resoles. If a $500 boot costs $100 to resole, that's a substantial perk, but if it costs $200-300 and a multi-month wait from the original maker, it changes things. I don't know about you, but if I spend $500+ on a pair of shoes, I'm not likely to hand them over to the local cobbler (if I can even find one anymore, let alone one I can trust). I'm sending them back to the original maker for the best chance of it being done perfectly. And with shipping costs what they are, I'm spending another $30 or more for shipping one way. Very quickly, I'm in a position to just buy another pair of shoes rather than fixing the ones I own. It's really a sad situation. Some of us don't want to just throw stuff away, but there we are. It's very frustrating, but it IS the situation. The wait times I'm hearing about lately are ridiculous. Wait times of a year or more, yet I receive endless email notifications about a growing number of products. That tells me they have little interest in servicing their products.