Meermin Mallorca Shoes

[blackadder]

It's not an issue right now, but how does one go about getting a meermin shoe resoled? Can any cobbler do it, and how much would it cost? Has anyone had to resole a pair yet?

 

[ML594806]

I´m off to Madrid on a pretty quick same day return business trip this week and I´m considering paying a visit to Meermin to buy a pair of their cordovans. Any comments on quality? Are they worth buying?

 

[stevent]



I´m off to Madrid on a pretty quick same day return business trip this week and I´m considering paying a visit to Meermin to buy a pair of their cordovans. Any comments on quality? Are they worth buying? 

I would go to Carmina store as horween cordovan is worth up charge. Also believe sale is going on at Carmina

 

[Shawl Lapel]

I didn't see any cordovan when I was in the Meermin store earlier this month - but I wasn't looking for it either. The store is pretty small though. A couple blocks up the same street is Carmina. Once you go in there you won't be able to leave without buying something..

 

[ML594806]

I didn't see any cordovan when I was in the Meermin store earlier this month - but I wasn't looking for it either. The store is pretty small though. A couple blocks up the same street is Carmina. Once you go in there you won't be able to leave without buying something..

I was relying on their website:

http://www.meermin.es/catalogo2.php?id=9

Since they are both run by the same family I thought it was worth checking at least. If I go to Carmina I'll end up buying another pair of shoes from them for sure. I'm in love with them and with their customer services. They pretty much redid a pair of shoes I ruined in an accident the very first day I tried them on and they looked as good as new.

How much of a sale is going on at Carmina's at the moment?

 

[terrorsquad]



Carmina and Meermin are not run by the same family, fyi. The similar last name is a coincidence

They are not?

 

[Osiris2012]

Yeah we've had this debate before, I am sure we all concluded last time that they are not the same family.

 

[joiji]

Same family, different family members at the head of each company. Companies have no affiliation with each other, and produce shoes in different factories.

 

[The Shoe Snob]



Carmina and Meermin are not run by the same family, fyi. The similar last name is a coincidence

They are not?

Yeah we've had this debate before, I am sure we all concluded last time that they are not the same family.

they are family, they are just not associated business-wise nor even on a personal level from what I have heard (inner family squabbling as such, but that is hearsay).......read the second paragraph in the link below, which comes directly from Pepe's mouth

http://www.claymoorslist.com/portfolios/pepe-albaladejo-meermin

 

[Osiris2012]

they are family, they are just not associated business-wise nor even on a personal level from what I have heard (inner family squabbling as such, but that is hearsay).......read the second paragraph in the link below, which comes directly from Pepe's mouth

http://www.claymoorslist.com/portfolios/pepe-albaladejo-meermin

all good, lets try and remember this link in six months time when this conversation comes up again.

 

[j ingevaldsson]

^^^ They are the same family, they just don't have anything else to do with each other than that. Two entirely separate brands, both run by members of the Albaladejo family. Some of the Albaladejos who run Carmina and Meermin used to work together on Yanko (who was huge back in the days, made like a million pair of shoes a year. As a comparison the largest quality shoe brand today, Allen Edmonds, make 500 000 shoes a year, and in the whole world it's about 1,2 million pairs made each year) but that brand went bankrupt in the beginning of the new millennium (bought up by Antonio Llobera in 2007 I think and now on track again making good shoes for good prices, kind of in the middle between Meermin and Carmina).

Edit: Justin beat me to it

 

[NeedStyleHelp]

Just placed my first order for http://www.meermin.es/ficha_articulo.php?id=4217 with matching belt. Looking forward to checking out these badboys!

 

[NickInTO]

Just placed my first order for http://www.meermin.es/ficha_articulo.php?id=4217 with matching belt. Looking forward to checking out these badboys!

Good luck! I got hit with a pretty massive customs bill when I ordered to Toronto, let me know how you make out.

 

[NeedStyleHelp]

Good luck! I got hit with a pretty massive customs bill when I ordered to Toronto, let me know how you make out.

Brutal! If you don't mind me asking, how much did you spend and how much did you get hit with?

 

[NickInTO]

Brutal! If you don't mind me asking, how much did you spend and how much did you get hit with?

Off the top of my head, my order was about $500 CAD, and I believe my customs bill was about $180.