re: Anybody still wear Doc Martens?

Wore a pair of brown leather slip ons through a four year residency and a three year fellowship. Loved those shoes. Wore them out. Never could find a replacement pair. Called the company. Asked if there was any way soles could be replaced. They asked me to mail them in for "an estimate". New pair of shoes (different style) arrived in my mail a week later. Never saw my shoes again.