POOR QUALITY BEGETS POOR QUALITY - No matter how you spin it! I bought brand-new, never-worn Indigo Clarks shoes at a thrift store. I loved them--the color (brown and light green), style with the wonderful and colorful ribbon, the Velcro, and most of all the comfort. What a find! After wearing them for about 1/2 hour, the "foam" in the heal of the shoe burst out of the sides. The foam inside was obviously dry-rotted and extremely poor quality. It only did it on one shoe. I decided to poke the foam back in with glue and see how things went. That's how much I liked them. Not only did it not hold on the one shoe, but the other shoe did the same thing. Unfortunately, I was at a very heavily-attended event and was very embarrassed by the state of my shoes. I'm not sure how Clarks will address this issue, but my thinking is Clark's unloaded these shoes in whatever manner was possible because they knew there was a huge quality problem with them and the materials used to manufacture them. Once you found out about the foam problem, the shoes sat in your warehouse and the foam degraded. At some point somebody said, "We've got to get rid of these things. Let's donate them to thrift stores!"...aka, unsuspecting idiots and customers. "Plus, we can say we donate to CHARITY! I did see them online and yes, they're probably not a terribly new line, however, that doesn't explain the total degradation of the materials you used to create them! I've never seen this happen to a shoe in my life. Horrible, horrible quality. What a disappointment. I called customer service and spoke with a guy for a few minutes. He was very versed and familiar with the issue. Company-line--ready and waiting. The foam degrading is a known problem and the "natural" foam now used--not sure he actually said this--isn't as poor of quality; it will still fall apart. The shoes were made in 2004 and are/were apparently created to fall apart because they will go into a landfill. They don't fall apart from wear, they fall apart because of the materials they're made from and because if you don't wear them, the foam won't stay limber. Hrm. Ultimately, I was told that if they had been worn, they wouldn't have done what they did. Does this sound like gibberish to you? "We make them to fall apart. If you don't wear them, they will fall apart." I really believe they sat in a Clark's warehouse until somebody said we need to dump these things. A pair of Clarks shoes to the person who comes up with the best idea on how to do it. If I left a pair of shoes in a box for 14 years, brand new, I don't think the foam would disintegrate into powder. I will receive a 25% off coupon. I won't use it to buy any Clarks brand shoes because of this experience, the quality of the shoe, and because of the ridiculously poor and CONVOLUTED explanation I received. At least he was truthful--and pretty much felt that the explanation was sufficient and the coupon. It wasn't. SUGGESTION - On every box, warn people about the foam. --The materials used to make these shoes are meant to disintegrate. We're making poor quality shoes that won't last and saying it's to save the earth. HA!