I purchased these boots from Amazon and they were a great price.  Unfortunately, the leather is quite thin and had a bunch of black marks.  Even though I think it was just part of the leather texture the marks were too noticeable to ignore.  Some of the black marks where just specks so you couldn't really notice but there was a huge black mark on the top of the shoe part of the boot that was super noticeable.  I ordered an 8.5 (I'm usually an 8.5 - 9) and the length was fine but the front of the boot got so narrow that this size wasn't comfortable for me.  Because of the size and the imperfections I sent the boot back.