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For Those Who Hate Flip Flops: Topless Sandals

We saw this video on Wise Bread and felt compelled to share it with you. It's a product demonstration of something called "topless sandals." "Topless sandals" are flipflops without the part that attaches the sandal to your foot. Instead, there is...

5:58 PM on Fri Jul 6 2007, by Meg Marco, 6,304 views, 34 comments

@citking: Sandals in Ocho Rios was wonderful, but I would suggest going to a travel agent who specializes in Sandals resorts as 1) They know all of the resorts and can help to pick the right property to match your personal interests and what you...

5:12 PM on Fri Aug 14 2009, by Rachacha, 586 views

Walmart Pulls Foot Burning FlipFlops

Walmart says it has pulled thousands of cheap sandals that had of customers complaining about painful, lingering rashes, WFTV in Florida reports.

10:58 PM on Tue Sep 11 2007, by Ben Popken, 13,163 views, 39 comments

The Combs Company Supports Feet, Customers

Aaron's feet were irritated by the stitching on a pair of Rafters sandals that he purchased last year from Dick's Sporting Goods. Aaron tried to break in the sandals over the course of a year, but they still felt "like needles" in his feet. Aaron...

2:47 PM on Sat Jul 14 2007, by Carey Alexander, 6,449 views, 37 comments

Zappos Has Otherworldy Customer Service

Over at Freakonomics they're swooning over Zappos.com's excellent customer service, and indeed the post reads like some sort of shopping fantasy:

12:39 PM on Thu May 17 2007, by Meg Marco, 4,609 views, 38 comments

Delta Doesn't Care About Your Honeymoon

[Note: Sandals has already responded to the post, expressed sympathy, and reached out to Autumn. We've removed their name from the headline to more accurately focus the blame on Delta, which is the company really behind the problems.] We get that...

2:23 PM on Fri Aug 14 2009, by Chris Walters, 19,197 views, 161 comments

Walmart Flipflops Continue To Chemically Burn Wearers

A North Texas woman says her Walmart flipflops gave her a nasty and painful rash, the same as Kerry's from Florida, whose injured feet we featured on The Consumerist.

2:45 PM on Thu Aug 30 2007, by Ben Popken, 11,906 views, 28 comments

Zappos Continues Awesomeness

Zappos online shoe store, famed for its amazing customer service, has done it again.

11:06 AM on Fri Sep 12 2008, by Ben Popken, 17,040 views, 72 comments

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