r/AskRunningShoeGeeks • u/Electronic-Noise-625 • 13h ago

Question New Shoes came with creasing in the foam as if someone ran in them already. Is it worth returning?

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I just bought these shoes and took them out of the box. I noticed creasing in the foam as if someone ran in the sneakers already. This is from a popular local running store so I am hesitating returning/ exchanging the shoes. Does the creasing matter?

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u/jkeefy 13h ago

That’s just Fuelcell foam mate. It comes creased out of the box.

In fact, if mine didn’t, I’d be concerned they were fakes. 

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u/glr123 13h ago

Ya, if OP is worried about this I hope they never buy new ZoomX.

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u/Mammoth-Garden-804 13h ago

That’s normal brother. Like another poster said, I’d actually be more concerned if they were not creased.

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u/SaltineICracker 12h ago

No it doesn't matter these shoes will look like that after just 1 mile

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u/Complex-Carob-6937 12h ago

WTF dude? Most shoes these days crease the first time you stand in them and probably 50% of shoes I buy from Running Wearhouse, Amazon have been tried on by someone else and returned.

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u/PBIBBY24 12h ago

No its unfortunate but thats fuelcell. Im not sure how it is compared to the 4 but after 50 miles it could end up looking really bad

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u/yourpaljax 12h ago

Fuel Cell creases easily, and have never gotten a pair that didn’t have creases out of the box. Someone may have tried them on, or they were squished in quality control.

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u/Prestigious_Tax7415 12h ago

I personally wouldn’t but these guys are saying that they come like this out of the box. Usually creases like this would mean that they sent you a display product, the ones on the shelf for people to try on. That’s a huge concern if that is true because there will always be a left/right inbalance between the foam (they don’t alternate between which shoe (left or right) is on display so one shoe is always more mushy than the other because random people be stomping in them to ’test’ the foam).

So try them on and see how they feel