I bought both the turquoise and fuchsia nubuck from a different store, and boy, was I wowed when I took them out of the box!  The nubuck was supple and extremely vivid, just the kind of colors I'm always looking for.  Put the shoe on (the turquoise) and admired it on my foot as I sat in the chair, and...then I stood up and my dream crashed to an end.  Take a look at the picture of the sole.  The heel piece is like a little round wooden hockey puck thing affixed to the sole, and it's a much narrower little puck than the shoe, or my actual foot.  So it was like standing on a little rock.  The leather of the upper (at the heel area) was perfectly fitted to my foot, but standing up, the puck-like heel pushed up, digging the circular edge into my heel.  Colossally stupid design.  They went back the next day.

It is possible that a competent cobbler could resole this whole shoe with a flat sole, but why should I have to pay that expense?