These shoes are an excellent buy. Our son has trouble finding quality shoes to fit, and these wear very well. They are definitely worth the money. My objection is that they were shipped by a carrier who is cosistently slow. It tood five days to get them. Not a huge difference, but the carrier changed the delivery date to accommodate the shoes just not moving for a couple of days during transit. But I would buy the shoes again and hope that Amazon would use UPS, which is consistently honors Amazon's estimated delivery dates.