Being fat enough to break shoes is actually a problem. Obesity is the second most common cause of preventable death. Not something to be proud of. If this is the case for the OP, she should take this as a sign that she needs to go to the doctor and find a way to get herself down to a healthier weight. If the girl was just normal to slightly overweight, I would agree with you. But if that were the case, no way would the shoes have broken.

Dear letitbe56, I'll agree that obesity is a serious problem...I am personally not proud of being a fatty but I'm not going to be ashamed either. I like how you have the nerve to give someone you've never met before medical advice...yeah, I'm sure every fat person needs you to point out that they need to lose weight. "no way would the shoes have broken" - Really? Shoes everywhere throughout the world are so greatly manufactured that no where in the world has a woman walked in a heel and had it break? Products are sometimes defective on earth...you would know this if you ever visited.

Both heels broke, and all she did was try them on. I would be surprised if they were that badly manufactured. We don't know what the OP weighs, so maybe it was just the shoes, but I do think that's unlikely. Look, I'm sorry if I hit a nerve. My intention wasn't to make anyone feel bad. I think all the people who are saying "YDI FOR BEING FAT" are rude assholes, but at the same time, "You're perfect the way you are!" isn't terribly realistic either if someone's health is on the line. I'm not wrong for saying that the OP should take her health seriously. It's the same thing I would tell a close friend with a serious weight problem--out of love and concern for her health, not to criticize who she is.

A girl who is 6 feet tall can weigh almost 200 pounds and be considered perfectly healthy. The shoes should be manufactured to hold at least that much weight, and given the amount of stress that would go on the heel when being worn regularly by someone who is 200 pounds, they shouldn't break when just being tried on by someone weighing a lot more either. And as someone has already pointed out, the shop would have been able to write them off and get money back from the company. The shop keeper was way out of line, and the assumption she is obese isn't necessarily correct and irrelevant given how much weight a heel should hold anyway.

Those are really excellent points. It seems like these are the options: 1. They were the worst shoes ever made. (Not too plausible, in my opinion.) 2. The OP is very, very large, much bigger than 200lbs. (Slightly more plausible than option 1, in my opinion, which is why I brought up obesity in the first place.) Or, I suppose: 3. The FML is fake. (Always a possibility.) I don't think there's really any way of knowing which one it is.

I don't think her feet would have fit in a small pair of heeled shoes if she weighed a lot more than 200lbs anyway. Most clothing lines and manufacturers will have a faulty product at some point. It's the main reason company's have customer service employees to deal with returned and faulty items.

Ding, the retard train has come to your doorstep, bringing helpful "health" advice masquerading as malicious commentary. I don't know if you need to lose weight--if you do, I suspect you know you do. I'm willing to bank 80% that you've worn heels or you wouldn't be trying them on and walking around in them--'cause heaven knows I wouldn't--and I'll bank that if it's the other 20%, it's not your weight that broke them, but where you put your weight. The heels probably didn't snap because you were just too heavy, but because you walked funny in them. Heels are about grace, not weight, and I've seen 400 lb women pull them off like a charm. Sorry, FYL for them being shittily manufactured and/or YDI for trying to learn to walk in really expensive shoes. o_o But that ******* sales rep should be fired.

Either that or you work in a data center :)

Yeah, because it's totally rude to try on things to make sure they fit/look right before considering buying them. Not practical at all. I mean, the sales people have to get boxes from shelves/put clothing on racks for us, for chrissake! It's not like they're paid to do that or anything....

I repeat: "It's one thing if you genuinely want to try a lot of different options; it's another to do it just for funsies." Making sure something looks or fits right is the RIGHT reason to try stuff on. But trying on stuff you can't afford just for the sake of trying it on is a waste of the sales-people's time. It's one thing to expect them to perform the service they are paid for. It's another to go try on designer shoes just for kicks and essentially force the sales-people to wait on you.

She paid, so she obviously could afford them. Perhaps she'd been saving for something that she thought was worth two of her paychecks. I doubt she thought a pair of broken shoes was worth two paychecks though. Sales people are paid hourly to wait on whoever comes in. It doesn't effect them in the slightest if you have any intention of buying them or not.

Just because I have $1000 in the bank doesn't mean I can afford to spend $1000 on shoes. Having a certain amount of money and being able to afford something are two different things.

So? There is nothing wrong with trying out the merch even if you have no intention of buying. You're not forcing the sales people to jump through hoops, and they get paid hourly anyway. As a customer, it's your right to be "waited on", regardless of reason.

That's not the literal meaning of afford, and that wasn't really the main point of what I was saying. There's nothing she said that implied she had no intention of buying them.

Are you seriously going to argue about the literal meaning of "afford"? Seriously? Well, I found it for you. "Manage to bear without serious detriment." If I'm planning on using a certain sum of money to pay rent, and instead use it to buy shoes, I will not have paid the rent, and will be facing serious detriment. So, literally, I couldn't really afford the shoes, despite having been able to produce the money to buy them. People who don't understand this are the reason for the credit crisis. I assumed, based on the wording of the FML, that she wasn't really planning on buying them, except the sales girl made her because they broke. Otherwise, I don't think she would have complained about how much they cost. But then, maybe that's just because I have a hard time imagining why anyone would actually want to spend two of their paychecks on one pair of shoes.