Lifetime customer done with Bean
My family have been Bean Customers for 4 generations now. My wifes family for 6 generations, and many still reside less than 30 minutes from their headquarters. And worked for them when they were younger. I'm 65 and have always recieved multiple gifts at the holidays from their catalog and store. All of the children's and teen clothing and footwear that I got was handed down multiple times over the years. I have shirts, jackets, fleecewear, and several original bean boots that go back 45 years. Love them.. We stopped buying and gifting most of their products when they went to imports roughly 25 years ago. I pulled out a pair of in the box never worn waterproof/thinsulate boots this morning to shovel snow in. I received them from my brother in law because they were too small. He got them as a gift two years ago and forgot to return them. Went out and shoveled for an hour. Boots fit like a glove straight out of the box and were warm, but not too warm. I was happy til I went to take them off and discovered they had separated on both shoes at several different seams. I can honestly say I have never seen a shoe or boot of any age self destruct as thus one did. Shoe laces look brand new, surface of the boots look brand new. Seams look like someone walked across the entire country and they exploded. Sure enough made in China. $179 bucks in a 2020 catalog. Pure junk. I will be dropping these off in person next time I'm in Freeport and don't expect any compensation since that practice was discontinued 30 years ago on their footwear. I still wear a lot of their clothing but it's all old and made to last. Can't say that about the new junk.
January 7, 2022
Unprompted review