Dear Keen boots: Your recycling effort is undercut by your hypercapitalism

I bought one pair of Keen boots, listed as running narrower than other boots of theirs, a little over a year ago after seeing my sis rock a pair of their running shoes.

They're on the lighter side on weight, and probably on durability, but they work pretty well for lighter hiking. And, Keen touts its commitment to recycled materials.

Then, after a December sales push this last December, I bought a pair of decent, higher durability boots from them.

And?

I opened the doors of capitalist hell in return.

Every other day, at least, it seems that I get bombarded with another email saying this, that or the other shoe or boot is on sale.

A week ago, I made a mistake clicking one of the email links. It apparently had a tracking cookie that got past Ghostery and Firefox, because, just a few hours later, I got a new email about determining sizing. (I had clicked on the button for my size after looking at that particular boot.)

ENOUGH!

I've already been thinking that, should I need a boot again in the next five years, I'll visit one of the European companies that's cut narrower, and uses Continental tire rubber instead of Vibram for the soles.

Hey, Keen? As long as you're recycling, why not replace Vibram with recycled tires?

Update? The company has not responded to being tagged on Shitter or Fuckbook. I may have to drop the link on one of their Hucksterman posts. And the "how did you like the boots" email as well as its "buy these" emails are all "dead" or, rather, one-way "unmonitored" emails.