Ecco Shoes - They rot whether you wear them or not!

missymugwump

makintracks wrote: »

If your question is directed at me, I most certainly did not tick option 4. I ticked option 1 and stand by it. For a seasoned poster in the forums your comments are rather harsh to say the least.

In what celebrity filled Hollywood boulevard do you live where normal people pay £375 to £1375 for a pair of "real" shoes as you like to refer to them?

Regarding who doesn't know that rubber degrades? Another cutting one, but I reiterate that paying in excess of £100 for a pair of shoes should get you decent quality. The original ones lasted many years REMEMBER - same shoes, same soles ...

Buy some real footwear with replaceable soles you say. Lots of these offers about, I will rush out and get some right now. I am sure they will have a style and size to fit me!

Unfortunately most consumers do not want to pay for quality, durability or repairability, you say - well actually I think many would, if the manufacturers actually delivered a quality product rather than just making lots more profit selling the same old tat at higher prices.

It is the choice of each shopper what they spend their money on and if cheap tat is your thing, go for it. I do not consider £130 cheap tat.

Your post is so hypocrytical

For a seasoned poster in the forums your comments are rather harsh to say the least.

Your posts are far more aggresive in tone
you have been given advice and others opinions anyone who disagrees with you is shot down,maybe you should think on that coincidence that the shoe people are wrong and so are we :rotfl:

makintracks

interested09 wrote: »

I think the fact that your first pair of eccos lasted for a few years should show that they are good shoes?

Firstly, thank you for your helpful post. I have been devoted to Ecco and Clarks shoes for a long time and this is why I felt so let down.

interested09 wrote: »

If shoes are left for a number of years (especially with the kind of sole you're talking about) they will crumble, worn or not. This will be the same for any brand of shoes. There would not have been any way you could have prevented it from happening. Nor could the manufacturers.

As you say later on in your post, it would have been helpful had the sales staff explained this, but hey ho... you can't legislate for honesty in business.

interested09 wrote: »

You should try not to be put off buying another pair of ecco shoes though. They do have an excellent reputation and many loyal customers who buy from them again and again. As you said, it can be difficult for some people to get such comfortable shoes, especially people with ankle or feet problems.

I am one of those people for certain. I guess you are right, but I won't make the same mistake again with any shoes. It is just a terrible shame, because manufacturers change designs all the time and if you find one that happens to suit you....

Thanks again. I have been extremely annoyed about the whole thing and I feel I can put the whole issue to bed now.

Missymugwump.... I am sorry if I have caused offence. It is indeed all in the tone and I started off wrong because I felt both mad and very let down by Ecco, a company I have spent a lot of money with over the years.

This morning I noticed a slip of paper in the box that Ecco sent back with my shoes. It states the following regarding how long Ecco suggest that footwear should last -

* Formal and casual footwear - 6 months of continuous wear

* Hiking boots and Golf footwear - 3 years of typical wear

It does also say there are many factors involved as mentioned by one of the early posters.

andyrules

pinkshoes wrote: »

M&S, Clarks, Barratts - Their boots all seem to have calves SO wide, they feel like wellies on me!!

I'm also a size 41, so perhaps bigger sizes have wider calf bits?? (although that would be illogical surely, as foot size should have no correlation to calf size!)

I agree with you PS, and manufacturers do indeed think like this - especially M&S who assume that tall people need large sizes and thin people are all small

Quackers

jackieb wrote: »

Car tyre disintegrate when not used, even if the car is garaged. My sister got her in-laws car. It's only done 6000 miles from new and hadn't been out of the garage for over 2 years. She had to get the tyres changed foor its MOT as the rubber started to disintegrate.

I've worked in a shoe shop for a long time. This is the basic description that we are given to compare to if a customer returns a pair of shoes that they have stored in a box for years without wearing. The soles literally do disintegrate.

Hydrolysis (sp?) is the cause.

Most of the shoes our company make now use TPU (thermoplastic polyurethanes ) soles which prevent this from happening.

We still have customers returning shoes that are 10yrs old and they want to know why they have fallen apart

oh, I'm lucky if a pair of shoes lasts me 6 months....everyone wears their shoes differently and I, unfortunately, am very heavy on my shoes

Freddie_Snowbits

Did not vote as a £100 fpor an intrinsically nonesense pair of shoes shows the shallowness of the purchaser

makintracks

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

Did not vote as a £100 fpor an intrinsically nonesense pair of shoes shows the shallowness of the purchaser

Could you please clarify how you know what is essential and what is nonsense / non-essential in the life of someone you do not know?

jacksie14

New Clarks shoes also fall apart like the Ecco shoes you talk about. I wore on pair 3 times & the soles started falling off. Another pair I wore for I day & the soles are cracking, top coming away from the sole. I still have 3 new pairs of Clarks shoes that I haven't worn yet - I expect the same thing will happen to them to.

I've never had this happen before with other makes of shoe when worn after being stored in a cupboard & not worn. I still have some cheap BHS or Littlewoods sandals that have thick polyurethane soles - one pair worn regularly - with no wear or cracks on the sole/another pair of the same sandals stored for a long period & worn without disintegrating.

So it is something to do with the design/materials used in Clarks shoes - the soft springy, spongy inside - polyurethane type sole that cracks.

I won't be buying anymore Clark's shoes.

Miró

Just had a pair of new Hotter shoes fall to bits. In the space of just a few hours the soles cracked, crumbled, disintegrated and fell off leaving me walking on just the waterproof membrane. Last time I buy Hotter shoes, or Ecco either, after reading this thread! :mad:

fashionlover10

pinkshoes wrote: »

Secondly, not all of us are getting fatter, so STOP making boots to only fit people with fat calf muscles!!

Could not agree with this statement more! I don't think I've worn boots that come higher than my ankles for years because of this problem.

jackieb

Mir! wrote: »

Just had a pair of new Hotter shoes fall to bits. In the space of just a few hours the soles cracked, crumbled, disintegrated and fell off leaving me walking on just the waterproof membrane. Last time I buy Hotter shoes, or Ecco either, after reading this thread! :mad:

My Ecco's eventually wore out (after a couple of years constant wear), and I bought 2 pairs of Hotter lace-up shoes over a year ago and they're all I wear and they're still good. As I said previously I have bappit feet and am usually very hard on shoes, but both the Ecco and the Hotter shoes have lasted me very well.

Maybe it's just certain styles? The type of shoe I wear is not pretty but they're comfy.