Goodyear welt blown in 1.5 years
Hello. So I've had the mule packers from White's for maybe 1.5 years now. I use them for hiking, backpacking, and general outdoors stuff. I've been on 5 backpackijg trips in them, and theyve been excellent. This last weekend, the welt blew out on them. Just called whites and they said theres nothing they can do other than charge me $275 for a full resole. Not worth it at all. I had synthetic boots last twice as long as these. Ill take them to a cobbler and see what they say. Im just not sure what to do at this point, so i figured id complain here. Its really upsetting. I get these arent the super fancy handstitched boots, but they should still outlast synthetic boots!!! Would the stitchdown packers actually last? Im not about to spend close to $1000 on boots if a few hikes in them will break them. I was hoping these would get at least 5 years out of them. This was a waste of money.