Consumer Advice question, Shoe repairs.

[bhaexpress]

Sorry to post such an inane thread but I am genuinely interested in this as I thing I am being ripped off.

I took a pair of shoes to be resoled. I was told that I could have hard wearing rubber soles to replace the leather ones that were already there. I went to pick them up last night and was told that they needed leather and that it was £28. This I might add was already done. I felt that £28 was a lot even for leather soles especially as they were not done as I had asked so I refused to pay and told the assistant politely to do as I had been told originally.

I don't think I'm being unreasonable but £28 ? What does anybody else pay ?

 

[little al]

I buy new shoes.

 

[herbicide]

They might be for his horse, Al.

 

[bhaexpress]

I buy new shoes.

Well you have to, given the amout of excrament you have to step on to get to Selhust Park. I mean, it's now an established fact that Crystal Palace are in the shit.

 

[Bombardier]

Where did you go? dish the dirt so that other posters don't get stung!

Try the fella in George Street, Brighton...just down from the Amex headquarters and practically next to the Queens Head pub (ignore the scary dykes often standing outside having a smoke).

This bloke is a top cobbler, knows his stuff!

 

[Deleted User X18H]

hmm I always have this situ with shoe repairers. They will be on be insistent on using leather soles.However a specialist repairer I used in the east end nr Petticoat Lane always used a rubber sole to repair a leather, upper even Loakes or churches. It is a bit of a rip off I am afraid as is not just being able to get one shoe re soled in an emergency!

 

[bhaexpress]

Where did you go? dish the dirt so that other posters don't get stung!

Try the fella in George Street, Brighton...just down from the Amex headquarters and practically next to the Queens Head pub (ignore the scary dykes often standing outside having a smoke).

This bloke is a top cobbler, knows his stuff!

Actually it was up here in Bromley, the bloke by Bromley South, must be a Palace fan, they need the money !

 

[Tooting Gull]

If you do want to know where you stand, Consumer Direct are the boys and girls for that kind of stuff.

 

[Simster]

Quite clearly you HAVE been ripped off.

They have fitted something more expensive than the pre-agreed price and failed to inform you before doing so.

 

[little al]

They might be for his horse, Al.

Didn't think of that.


bhaexpress in the cobblers, yesterday.

 

[Mrs. Merry Prankster]

Where did you go? dish the dirt so that other posters don't get stung!

Try the fella in George Street, Brighton...just down from the Amex headquarters and practically next to the Queens Head pub (ignore the scary dykes often standing outside having a smoke).

This bloke is a top cobbler, knows his stuff!

Barry - top man.

 

[bhaexpress]

Didn't think of that.


bhaexpress in the cobblers, yesterday.

Once again, proof that you talk cobblers

 

[little al]

This is a shoe in for worst thread of the year.

 

[herbicide]

...must be a Palace fan, they need the money !

I thought you were the one down at heel.




Coat.

 

[bhaexpress]

I thought you were the one down at heel.




Coat.

The only heels I worry about are the ones who follow Palace. It's time your fans faced reality and started selling The Big Issue at 'home' games.

 

[little al]

You have no sole bhaexpress.

 

[herbicide]

The only heels I worry about are the ones who follow Palace. It's time your fans faced reality and started selling The Big Issue at 'home' games.

You need to buckle down to learning a few manners.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Blimey, Ron Noades hasn't aged at all well.....

 

[little al]

All the uppers he was taking.