I've just paid two hundred pounds to have two pairs of made-to-measure shoes re-soled by the man who originally made them (which involves ordering in new materials and waiting for weeks...)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