That's too late - all to remember then is your money.
Things falling apart on a first use do happen:
https://www.scavengerlife.com/2014/06/the-sad-decline-of-crumbling-dansko/
Shoes falling apart upon first use.
Caused by polyrethane - whoms molecular bindings are broken by... water.
Upto the point of fine dust - the "cake" like crumbling is just the beginning of the proces.
Which nobody expects since the assumption that shoes get into humid environments is as logical as to assume that a boat has a watertight bottom.
But, at some time, producers started to cut costs by replacing the proven materials with cheaper, with this as consequence for the buyer.
They even advertise their replacement as a improvement, ex eco friendly.
And there is no real (=practical) preventive solution for it.
What is the producers given advice: replace the shoes "in time".
That is, pass their cashier again. Buy 5 pairs over 5 year instead of 1 over 5 years, but the individual price tag is double or triple the 1/5.
There are a myriad example cases - you just have to take a peek in any pile rubbish in foreigners suburbs in cities in our part of the world.
Often you find even brandnew looking shoes/coats/bags/household-kitchen products/furniture, and so on, thrown away without any use.
Why: because they bought several, usually due to being tricked into thinking it was a bargain price, used one, discovered the cheat, and to avoid have to also pay to get rid of the rubbish, they dump them all somewhere.
Something must be wrong, and it is: it all has such cost cutting somewhere, all that its producents care is that the products look lasts long enough to give it the time to be sold.
And the price tag says nothing, real or lookalike leather, it has to be thrown away with the part where cost was cut.
And it even goes beyond the own choice, for ex, one can decide, my lookalike leather polyurethane coated jacket looks like crap but I don't care about the look.
But the shiny polyurethane surface, and it's unbeneath polyurethane voluminous filler, comes loose, and everywhere you go, you leave behind sticky pieces / dust.
Ex bicycles panniers, similar story - watertight plastic coating on textile, or just textile fiber reinforced, but detoriates by water and/or UV, the coating falls off as dust, which gets on your stuff. With the watertightnes ofcourse gone with it too.
The panniers just became totally useless, rather the contrary, due to the dirt, they became an obstacle.
The problem with Oxfam and other sponsored got for nothing - sell for something places, is that they do not exist primarly for the products and its customers but to create jobs as an excuse for a pay, jobs for so-called less-able (or punished), which in turn exist as an excuse to create a wide variety of them- "assisting" jobs.
As a rotation scheme, that is, they only stay some months, so-called "to learn", and then they're replaced by new, who, again, start from nothing. So if any experience (to learn to recognize crap products as such) is lost.
End result: crap continues appearing on the shelves.
Ofcourse, customers learn, so gradually over the weeks the shelves become full of crap, no place to put new.
So what do they do: a regular (4 weeks here) cleanup, that is, throw all what wasn't sold in the time, in the dirt containers. In order to recognize it, they put small color stickers, 3 colors, 3 weeks.
... instead of refusing crap upon attempt to bring it in / get legally rid of it.
As a result, those state shops here have more dirt containers on their terrain than industrials have.
Often you see people bringing in stuff, and people barely left or you see them already going to their containers with it. Go figure...
Also, for some branches, ridiculous high price settings, preventing their sale. Especially art.
Then, after the 3-4 weeks cycle, they brutally (read: physical damage to the art) empty shelves into shopping carts, to then ride to container outside, where it's further wrecked.
They're still worth a visit though - especially after a new batch newbie personell arrived, that tag prices purely based on a rude directive list.
Then you can find gold priced as wood because they couldn't read/hear Dutch well enough to notice the difference.
