So, if you're not already buying your shoes from Endless.com, you should be.
I had never heard of Endless.com until Clyde bought three pairs of shoes from them earlier this week. Now, if you're like me, the very idea of buying shoes online will strike you as kind of bizarre. I mean, you're buying shoes, right? It's not like you can hold your foot up to the monitor to see if a given shoe will fit.
Endless gets around my bias against virtual shoe stores by offering fast, free shipping for purchases and returns — and they really don't care how many pairs you order and send back. When Clyde made his purchase, he ordered six pairs and ended up keeping three. Boxing up and returning the others was child's play.
This sounds too good to be true, so I figured Endless was doing something sneaky, like charging you for all these shoes if you took more than, say, a week to return 'em. Fact is, you've got 365 days to return 'em. (Returns must be new and unworn, of course — you can't wear the shoes for a year and decide you don't like 'em!)
Endless is an Amazon.com company, and, true to form, they make shopping for shoes a lot easier than it is in a bricks and mortar store. If you're as hard to fit as I am, you're very familiar with the routine at a traditional shoe store: pick out a pair, ask the surly salesman if they have it in your size, he disappears into "The Back," he comes out and says they don't have your size, you look again, he finds this one, it doesn't fit, and so on, and so on.
At Endless, when you find a shoe you like, you can see for yourself what sizes and colors are in stock — immediately. And since shipping is free in both directions, you're actually encouraged to order just as many pairs as you like, so you can try them on in the comfort of your own living room — which, for me, is a lot more attractive than trying on shoes in the midst of a store infested with screaming kids, bored husbands, and sales reps with bad attitudes.
So: if you're in the market for a pair of shoes, try Endless out. Click through the banner below, and every pair you actually purchase will help keep MadeByMark.com on the air!
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