I Let My Fists Do The Talkin’

So, I got these new shoes… from Zappos. Believe the hype, it’s great shopping site—good idea, well run. I assume they’re losing money with the free shipping and free returns jazz or if they are in fact making money, within a year they’ll have some bubble-bursting terrible Kozmo.com-type implosion. (I used to work for Kozmo.com part-time in college.)

In the interest of fair balance, I’d also say that their rival shoes.com is indistinguishable. I also bought shoes there and the service was similarly excellent. Plus, they wrap it with a printed packaging tape with “shoes.com” written over and over, leading to juvenile-hilarious/unfortunate boxes like this:

My shoes are green booties, really… very Robin of Sherwood. They don’t seem very warm or padded, but they’re slip on and slouchy and have ultra-cool extraneous straps on thes. Like keds wrapped in the corpse of Kermit the Frog.

I’ll be taking them on the town tonight to see what the man on the street thinks.

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 7th, 2006 at 4:08 pm and is filed under Link Farming, Progress.