I bought a pair of these shoes locally about 2 years ago (size 8-9 for LESS than [...]) he was size 8 at the time, they were a little too big on my son I set them aside.  It took quite a few months for him to finally be able to use them.  Finally he was able to use them, he used them for quite a while.  My son is autistic, so once he likes something he wants it ALL the time.  Unfortunately he wanted to wear them to bed, since he never went outdoors with them; I figured that's not too bad.

The only time these would come off was for bath time, eventually they broke (3 months later).  It was a pain to find them locally, they don't sell them anymore.  By the third sleepless night with my son who'd give a HARD time to be put to bed I came here to Amazon hoping to find help.

I ordered the very same shoe same size 8-9 for toddler (3 times the price of the originals) they took 2 weeks to arrive.  His size now varies between 9 and 9.5.  They were really tight (of course) and he didn't want them!  So I came back and ordered him size 10-11, surprise!  THEY'RE HUGE!

In my desperation I had to submerge the 8-9 in warm water... to stretch them, I took newspapers and shoved them inside the shoes and kept changing the warm water.  It took 3 days but the shoes FINALLY stretched enough for him to find them comfortable to wear.

He's back wearing them; meanwhile his foot is growing as I'm typing here.  And yet no shoe sized 9-10 that resembles this shoe at all.

Oh but the worst thing is not the size, the worst thing IS THE PRICE!  [...]???  For rubber shoes?  Are you kidding me?  If I didn't have this emergency I wouldn't have bought these shoes AT ALL!  These people are deliberately taking advantage of desperate parents!

As soon as I find them locally again I'm ditching these guys, it wouldn't be so bad if they actually had the size of my son.