After quite the adventure I finally have a pair to call my own. I've been lurking this thread for awhile and knew I wanted a pair as a birthday/yay for finishing first semester of law school gift to myself. I figured I would order from Neiman Marcus because at the time most of the GG sneakers were about $100 off, but I fell in love with a camo printed pair that was on pre-order. Purchasing those meant I missed out on the discount but I liked them so I bit the bullet. The shoes were meant to ship out on December 10th, and about a month into my waiting I get an E-Mail saying that the shoes will not ship December 10th, but rather sometime in March. I decided to cancel the order and was pretty bummed, mainly because I missed out on the sale.
I was more determined than ever, though, to finally get a pair so I decided to order again from NM, this time full price (but at least getting a gift card due to how much I spent). A week later I finally get my sneakers and I'm super excited--only for the pair they shipped me to be a completely different pair than what I ordered. I did some quick Googling and the pair they sent me has since been put on sale a lot of places so I figured, oh they'll price match. Wrong. Even though I found multiple places that had the shoe on sale (Ssense and others I can't remember), Neimans refused to price match, even though it was their mistake in sending me the wrong pair to begin with. So I returned them.
So two strikes, right? I figured, third times the charm, this pair will totally be perfect. So I found a pair on sale from MyTheresa and ordered those. Not really ones I was totally in love with, but at this point I just wanted a pair. So they come and they were fine, if a little bit tight. Now I realize instead of immediately going to Neiman Marcus, I probably should have tried on the wrong pair they shipped me for sizing. I could get away with the sale ones from MT, but I didn't love them and they didn't feel great so I returned them. No problem, they issued a return and everything was fine. Except for some reason my bank then proceeded to charge me again for the shoes and even though they admitted it was their mistake, it's been two weeks and the charge still hasn't come off.
At this point I'm staring to wonder if maybe this is a sign from G-d that I should give up on these shoes. They're just sneakers at the end of the day, but I just couldn't let it go. I had outfits planned! Places to wear them! I already envisioned these expensive sneakers in my closet so often that I couldn't let it go. So I went onto Net-a-Porter and looked at their selection. I decided I should really go up a size and of course the only ones in my size were full price. At this point I decided I'd just pay full price and picked out a pair I liked. It's been about a week now and I can safely say that I
finally own a pair and I like them and all is good (save for my bank still not able to fix the double charge).
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