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[pedanther]

Another one for the life milestones file: first time I got a pair of shoes re-soled.

(First time I had a pair of shoes that was worth getting re-soled, really. Most of my life has been spent in shoes that could be bought new for the price of getting them re-soled, and by the time the soles were an issue the rest of the shoe wasn't worth keeping either.)

To hear the shoe repairer tell it, it turned into a small epic: first they'd run out of the material, and had to wait for it to come in, then it turned out that this pair of shoes was very solidly constructed - which is a good thing, of course, but meant they ended up having to order in new heavy-duty tools as well, because the standard ones weren't making a dent.

I figure I'll give them a week to recover before I mention the other pair of shoes (different colour, but same make and model) that also need re-soling...

Comments

[seawasp]

So how much was it to give your shoes a new soul...er, sole? I have some pretty nice shoes that are almost soulless, but I don't know if re-soleing is cost-effective.

[pedanther]

For this pair of shoes, it was $35. I don't know if that's typical.

(And of course, cost-effectiveness also depends on the shoes: it would have cost considerably more than $35 to have bought a whole new pair of these shoes.)

[igenlode.livejournal.com]

I've just paid two hundred pounds to have two pairs of made-to-measure shoes re-soled by the man who originally made them (which involves ordering in new materials and waiting for weeks...)

Admittedly they cost four to five hundred pounds a pair to have made in the first place, but the re-soling price just keeps going up :(
(Fifty pounds to seventy-five to eighty and now to a hundred - I've probably almost doubled the original price over the years.)

I tell myself this is the price you pay for having weird feet, but when I hear other people haggling prices down in his shop I start to feel I'm being ripped off :( It wouldn't be so bad if the specially-ordered-in grips didn't wear smooth in only a month or so; I then have to wear the shoes with smooth soles until they go right through and I'm forced to get them done again.