My pair from FA/FTL arrived safe and sound. Usually most boxes I have delivered, such as sneakers and anything from Amazon gets thrown somewhere in my front courtyard, sometimes there are boxes laying in my shrubs and stuff lol - I have a gate and I swear the ups/fedex/usps guys just throw it over without looking. But for some reason this box was placed nicely against my front door.
So glad because my house is getting painted and the painters were power washing the outside....they've already sprayed and soaked some beaters and stuff I left outside, I would have been mj crying face if I found the box soaked.
Although I don't own the SBB 1.0, I can see why people are saying these aren't quite the same quality wise. But I don't see anything wrong in terms of quality with these. Just some very minor flaws, but it won't bother me at all as people don't regularly bend down and scrutinize my shoes when I'm walking around.
If the og SBB is like the black toes/banned of SBBs, then these are definitely the "chicagos" - now, onto the black toes!