Bought a pair of Sketchers Shapeups ...worn sparingly only over 5 occasions. Shocked to find the soles crumbling and disintegrating!! Have never experienced this in my life with my other shoes! Contacted Sketchers and they said this is normal wear and tear. Normal?? The tracks of the soles are almost pristine , which proves no hard wearing . Paid a good RM399 for the shoes and they said that this is normal!! I am seriously doubting the quality of the shoes from Sketchers as this does not happen to other brands that I own.
Anyone else experienced this before???



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probably old stocks? but damn...literally reput.

expired.....

Old stocks. That's y

That's horrible! My family has like 3-4 pair of Skechers shoes and all of them are great and definitely not something like that. I suggest you contact higher authority if possible

I got the same 1... in white... also same case.. banned them

I have complained to both local and US Sketcher. They never admitted that these were old stocks, just normal wear and tear. Wanted to compensate by giving me a 35% discount voucher. What??? To dump more money into useless Sketcher shoes?? Real crooks!!

Did u buy and wear it, but after that you left it for a long time unused?

same thing happened to me about 5-6 years ago. in US, just disintegrated. wrote them letters but no response at all. went right on the "do not buy" list, ever at any price

Wear sparingly....similar to my other brands of shoes, but none of the others turned up like this.

I suspect , then, that they are dumping old stocks into Malaysia market. Of course, they will not admit to this...

can go to tribunal for refund. but must have proof of receipt. cost for tribunal rm5 only plus your time

Thought about that, but unfortunately can't find the receipt. My point is not so much on the refund, but what type of quality shoes are Sketchers dumping to the locals and fleecing them off?? Any reputable brand will have strict quality standards plus good after sales support.. not try to fleece the consumers further with discount coupons for future purchase.

yeah. agree with you. this shows they are dumping old stocks here. thanks for sharing TS. will put in blacklisted brand

Yes, he should have eaten them before they went bad.

Dont buy skechers dah.i never minat their products and the price huh
My sportscience friends said the best shoes is reebok (back to 2011)...

Found something new on Sketchers - they were fined $40 million for false claims on their ShapeUps! Now it starts to make sense that they were dumping these shoes in our market!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkg44Ac9T70

Aiyoh...be more diplomatic la.....hurt my feelings...... 60kg fat??

Even POWER shoes aren't as terrible lol.

The design of these shoes are actually very good for walking but does not last long. My wife went for long walks on vacation wearing these shoes and never complain a bit unlike other shoes she had. This is a very old design.

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If inanimate object is edible i think ur macro would include ikea furnitures already.
P.S-walao i think ppl scared to response to your trollin.

This post has been edited by pj_guitarist: Jun 21 2015, 05:35 PM

I don't eat that much! Clearly you are exaggerating my old chap.

I experienced it once when you don't wear your shoes after a long time the soles come off, this happened to me during my hiking trip back in 2008. I might not have worn the shoe for a year then wore it back and all of the sudden it gave way like yours.

Proly old stock tht was kept in storage for far too long. U can check the shoe's manufacturing date on the label (usually on the shoe's tongue), then U know la. I've had this problem with NB before, with the outsole. The outsole came off after 2 runs, they agreed to replace, then the replacement shoes also had the same problem even before it hit the road. Then I made some noise on their FB page, they agreed to replace it with a different model of the same price. I went to their store in KLCC, decided on 890v$ Baddeley edition & now I'm on my 2nd pair At least something good came out of my ordeal.

The important question here is, when was it purchased? Immaterial the number of usage. And When was it last used?

Any rubber based shoe, that had not been used or ventilated for couple of months, it will crumble and disintegrate due to dryness and heat.

This post has been edited by VeeJay: Jun 22 2015, 11:47 AM

fully agree with this.

I have similar case with one of my shoes. CAT....i guess its how u take care of the shoes

Get a bata power shoe, and you will never regret it.

This post has been edited by stargamer: Jun 25 2015, 03:18 AM

Well, if you have other shoes bought around the same time and with similar usage levels, it is telling when only one brand of shoes disintegrates, but not the the others.

Agree that Bata may actually outlast Sketchers.... at fraction of the price

After this episode with sketchers, made me wary about what brands to trust now...Adidas? Nike? New Balance? ...I wonder...

make a formal complaint to the owner & maybe headquarters. See how they react.

YA, I did that. All they are could do is to give me a rm30 voucher, expecting me to buy more of their crap shoes. Can you beat that?

Well then, nothing much to say then