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Good Feet Store - Bad feet Store
orthotics - Complaint
Review by estherh on 2012-09-02
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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA -- The Good Feet Store is the McDonald's of "orthotics". Do not waste over $300 for a shoe insert with a pad. The third type of insert I tried that was suggested at Good Feet Store still hurt and made my plantar fasciitis worse. Three months of pain. To add insult to injury, they will not refund your money.
Now that I have been wearing truly customized orthotics made by a podiatrist for one month, my feet are healing and the pain level is better. The shoe insert that they sell for 299 is advertised in foot product catalogs/ websites for $15. At Good Feet you are paying for their infomercials. My suggestion is have a doctor or a Certified Pedorthist make up the orthotics.
Now that I have been wearing truly customized orthotics made by a podiatrist for one month, my feet are healing and the pain level is better. The shoe insert that they sell for 299 is advertised in foot product catalogs/ websites for $15. At Good Feet you are paying for their infomercials. My suggestion is have a doctor or a Certified Pedorthist make up the orthotics.
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Posted by trmn8r on 2012-09-02:
The tenor of your complaint is echoed by others. I've always been a fan of real doctors, when I have a serious health concern.
Posted by Dave on 2012-09-20:
I went to Good Feet in San Antonio. The "custom fitting" is simply walking over a pressure sensitive board with carbon paper over it. The "custom fit" insert is one of about a dozen they keep in stock. The "system" they sell is a three-pair set, plus some toe tips and soft shoe sole inserts...with tax, over $1000. You get that? A Thousand Bucks.
So I did some research, and looked into a job at Good Feet. Get this: If you buy that $1000 "system" the salesman commission is between $300 and $600, depending on his volume. Is it a ripoff?
Can't say for sure. If it heals your pain, maybe not. But that is a huge gamble for most people. $1000 for a maybe, from a non-medical retailer. Sorry, but J. Clark, DPM is nothing more than a paid spokesman.
I ended up paying a podiatrist $65 for a visit, bought the top-line Dr Scholl insert $50, bought a night brace from Amazon $35, and my pain is going away. Oh, I do the recommended stretches too. That's free.
So I did some research, and looked into a job at Good Feet. Get this: If you buy that $1000 "system" the salesman commission is between $300 and $600, depending on his volume. Is it a ripoff?
Can't say for sure. If it heals your pain, maybe not. But that is a huge gamble for most people. $1000 for a maybe, from a non-medical retailer. Sorry, but J. Clark, DPM is nothing more than a paid spokesman.
I ended up paying a podiatrist $65 for a visit, bought the top-line Dr Scholl insert $50, bought a night brace from Amazon $35, and my pain is going away. Oh, I do the recommended stretches too. That's free.
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