Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have been wearing Sperry A/Os for probably 15 years now. My previous pair lasted me 7 years and treated me very well but I had to trash them as the soles of the shoe completely fell apart. Although the leather was perfectly suitable to be resoled, Sperry doesn't offer their soles to resole boat shoes, which is painful and disheartening as the leather after 7 years was incredibly well formed and broken into my feet, super comfortable. I bought a new pair here and wow these are not the same shoe that I loved and used for nearly a decade. The sizing is off, I ordered a size smaller than my last pair but these somehow feel bigger than my last. The leather quality is completely awful compared to before. The coloring of the Sahara is totally different, way lighter and much less flattering than even the images on here. They wholly feel like a cheap overstock shoe from Marshalls or TJ Maxx. I'll be returning these. It's a sad day to see such an icon of Americana fall so far and so suddenly, especially when its the original boat shoe. I'll have to take my business elsewhere for the quality I crave from what Sperry used to be.