Dropped $340 on a pair of Red Wing 877s in 2019 thinking I got played, they are on their third set of laces and still going | Buy It For Keeps - Rigidtalk
Bought my 875s back in 2017 for about the same price and felt the same way walking out of the store. Six years later they have been resoled once and the leather looks better now than when they were new. I have beat the crap out of them at job sites and in the rain and they just keep going. The upfront cost stings but you end up paying like fifty bucks a year when you do the math. Cheap boots would have fallen apart three times over by now. Best money I ever spent on footwear, no question.