The tongue of these new boots I bought, is uneven. The usual approach would be for the boots to be sent in to the manufacturer to be fixed. They would get back to me in few weeks. Soo... I would have to stop skating again! NOOOO!
I cannot tell you how frustrated I am :(( But being what it is, I was thinking to order other boots, (semi-custom after my old boots, that would take 2 months to make), hopefully they'll have no issues, and after they arrive and put the blades on them, and have the blade adjusted, and then to send in these boots to be fixed. I'll have two pairs of new boots... but I can put inline wheels on one of them them. On my old 220 I want to put quad wheels... This would allow me to keep skating, even if the boots feel uneven... I have prepaid ice, nonrefundable, and anyway I want to keep skating.
As I was complaining to a skating friend about the pain I was in from breaking in the new bots, and the tongue defect and the scenario of buying a new boot, only to be able to skate in this defective boots for the two months until the others are gonna be manufactured... He said... you realize that in the next two months you will barely break in these boots, then you'll have new boots that you'll have to break in, and then you'll have the defective boots back and you'll have to break those in AGAIN. This defective boots are gonna have brand new and stiff tongues, yeap, I haven't thought of that... That would mean that for the first half year of this year I would just break in boots... 4 pairs, to be exact, 2 defectives, and the 2 new ones yet to come. I had a panic attack right then...
Another option would be for the manufacturer
to send me a brand new boot, same model, now, not to wait weeks for
them to repair the old ones, or two months to produce the semi-custom
ones. But... I cannot see myself starting over to break in new boots
again... NOW. I was thinking I could have gathered my patience to break
new boots in two months from now... but that may not be realistic as I
would have had barely broken the defective ones until then.
My friend asked about my old boots, and he advised me to have the tongue rebuild at a local shoe repair place. They can do them in a day! And I could skate without interruption. That sounds good short term, well not so short, as he said I may be able to squeeze another year out of the boots.
I may want only 6 months out of these old boots. I wanted to add quad wheels on these old boots, for quad skating you need soft boots. But if the new tongue will be still to stiff to do that in the summer, then I would need to buy roller boots for the summer or give up on that for another year... I will still have to buy new ice boots at some point...
One more issue... If I would repair my old boots, I wouldn't need this new boots, the defective ones anymore, unless I would keep them in a box for 6 months to a year or more. But what if, when I'll finally put the blades on them, I would found them defective? I had two defective boots out of two new boots I just bought...
Should I return these boots too?
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