Market Night Belt Vendor: Not a good experience
 

I paid like $27 for "Leather" Belt, from the belt vendor at town square. I used it for like 6 months and then the vinyl coating on it started peeling off. I was like what? This is supposed to be Leather. Brought it back to them and they said, they had never seen this happen before. I said OK..must be defective then, can I get a new one. The Lady tried to imply it was my fault and pointed to the All Sales Final words written in Magic Marker on her sign. Thought I'd let you all know.

Caveat emptor!

We all learn (hopefully !) from experience
 

Fortunately your loss was kept at a minimum. 6 months use of a belt, yes, $5 a month not a bargain for sure but could be much worse. Few want to hear the sad tale of others, but our adult children got extremely expensive lesson on "leather". Apparently, it is legal to sell "genuine" leather furniture in the thousands of dollars, as long as there is some tiny microscopic layer of true (animal source) leather. They wanted to invest in the "real thing" as it would last a life time. In three years, the micro leather covering had begun to peel off the "vegan" leather that comprised 99.9% of the upholstery. Make a note of that, I have seen this very same type of "leather" furniture in many area stores. Like a genuine leather belt (which will definitely run $100 at the very least, unless laminated with something else), a genuine leather couch is going to be MANY thousands of dollars. If you still would like to have a genuine leather belt, check out the area stores that sell riding equipment and accessories, I've noticed their genuine leather belts are not all western design. When someone offers you a genuine leather belt, or wallet, etc. for $25-$30, as mom always said, if it sounds too good to be true, it is !

I don't expect those belts to last more than a year. Went to replace one at the Hometown Halloween event but pickings were slim.

Things like this irritate me.

I might have stood there for a couple hours arguing with her and saying how unhappy I was with the product she was selling and I would keep asking for my money back. During my diatribe, she would probably not make any sales.

In any confrontation, physical or verbal, the goal is to cause the other person more unhappiness than they cause you.

If the belt fell apart in a month or so understand but they did get 6 months use out of it. Some customers not worth dealing with.

It is almost impossible to find a belt that is actually made of 100 percent genuine leather. Most are vinyl, but some may have a thin leather covering over a fabric. The leather covering will either be stitched or glued to the fabric. I buy belts on sale at Bealls for about $15 and throw them away in about 3-6 months. If the belt you purchased was labelled as "leather" then the vendor was just following the standard advertising practice for belts. So, other than overcharging you, the vendor did nothing wrong. Next time, go to Bealls when they have a sale, which is almost always.

From your description, sounds like you bought a bonded leather belt not a full leather belt.

For a $27 belt?

I have yet to find a full genuine leather belt in a retail store. They may look like leather, but they are not. If you know where to buy one, please share the information.

Like, I had one like that, but it, like, lasted a little longer. And I really liked it.

We experienced the "bonded leather" failure about 7-8 years ago and learned a lesson as well. Cheaper (a relative term of course to what one can afford), or "super sale" leather furniture is almost always "mostly bonded or very thin leather." "Vegan leather" (AKA PU leather AKA polyurethane leather AKA vinyl AKA plastic)" has been around for a number of years as well. It started out with the cheap cell phone cases years ago then moved on to clothing and furniture. Even "pure leather" has many varieties (not unlike gold) based on thickness. We looked at an $8000 leather reclining sofa recently just for the fun of it at that furniture store on 441 in Lady lake (would never buy it) but the difference was so obvious and the minute you sat on it you KNEW why it was $8G's! I could have sat on it all night. Gotta be an educated consumer these days and in most cases you get exactly what you pay for.

The belts are pleather, not Leather.
They were happy to take just as you were willing to pay $27 for an imitation belt, enjoy your flaking belt.

In Virginia, I had a $6,000 leather sectional that I bought from a store named "Scan". It was wonderful. But, the store went out of business, probably because people are too cheap to buy quality leather furniture. The stuff they sell now in furniture stores is mostly cheap junk.

Hey its a market vendor not Costco.